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