Interview with Giulia Saccà
Giulia Saccà is an assistant professor at Columbia University, working in algebraic geometry. In this interview, Giulia gives jobmarket advice for mathematicians, contemplates some of the struggles that minorities in math get to deal with, and tells about books that resemble math research.
Giulia's homepage: http://math.columbia.edu/~giulia/
Photo: Allegra Boverman
Women in Math program at IAS: https://www.ias.edu/math/wam
0:00 teaser
0:27 interests in history in philosophy
6:51 jobmarket advice
11:37 talking about our insecurities helps
16:23 struggles of minorities in math
20:05 what to do with impostor syndrome
27:01 how to find role models
30:48 Women in Math program at IAS is great
35:57 the future of online seminars
41:06 how to keep track of math projects
47:27 which music helps to do math
49:31 alpinism resembles doing research
52:21 Proust writes about math
58:44 the joy of cooking
1:00:40 a wish for young mathematicians