Interview with Marc Levine from Math-Life Balance

Interview with Marc Levine

59 minutes Posted Mar 21, 2021 at 2:53 pm.

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becoming a mathematician

family’s reaction

moving from USA to Germany

bilingualism and jokes

skills for doing research

encouraging to stay in academia

PhD advising 

what is work

mysterious time-management

not being judgmental

geometric intuition

thinking too fast

challenge of moving forward

finding math problems

independence after graduation

serious research mistakes

how to learn motivic homotopy theory

learning math backwards

changes in the math community

mathematical inspiration

funny conference encounter

my gratitude and R. Kipling

advice to young mathematicians

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Marc Levine is a professor at Duisburg-Essen University, working in algebraic geometry and motivic homotopy theory, and my PhD advisor! In this interview, Marc contemplates how to look for research problems, learn new research areas and move from USA to Germany with your family.

Marc's webpage: https://www.esaga.uni-due.de/marc.levine/

Photo: Marc's private photo collection

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