In conversation with June Huh

Two PhD students, Laura Casabella (MPI MiS) and Dante Luber (TU Berlin), ask June Huh (Princeton University) questions about his work, winning the Fields medal and mathematics in general.
Unfortunately we had an audio equipment failure, please enable subtitles.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:03 Research
00:01:49 Lorentzian polynomials
00:03:05 Examples
00:04:07 Open problems
00:04:44 What's beautiful in mathematics?
00:06:01 Example of a fun theorem
00:07:16 Career path
00:10:38 Obstacles
00:12:50 Winning the Fields medal
00:15:00 Role models
00:17:12 Advice for young mathematicians
00:19:45 Work-life balance
00:20:07 Passions outside of mathematics
00:20:31 Preparing talks
00:22:09 Finding collaborators

[@minseoksong4714]

It's a shame that the audio quality is so bad

[@mpiMathSci]

Unfortunately we had an equipment failure and had to fall back to in-built mics and sound reconstruction to even be able to get this out of it. Sorry about that. We've added subtitles though.

[@user-nk4bj9gb4e]

Thank you so much, and thanks for interviewing him!

[@omerelhagahmed551]

@@mpiMathSci I recommend reproducing the audio quality by a profesional and upload it again, cause It's a real problem

[@buddhistjustbud]

Mr. Huh, Poet turned Mathematician is one of my inspirations in today’s world!

[@buddhistjustbud]

Rather now he’s both poet and mathematician 😊

[@Deereklops]

This was really motivational and helpful. Thanks for delivering this interview and thanks to June Huh.

[@kmunson007]

Not sure why I clicked on this, but I am so glad that I did. What an inspiration he is. The best part? I suspect he would not think of himself in that way. And to attribute a lot, even most, of his success to luck, very humble. Boy did I need to hear this as I am feeling stuck in the journey I am on (related to mathematics). I am renewed!

[@ivanc2863]

love it. im not a mathematician or anywhere in academia, a film student actually, and i love there's this poetic-ness in the way june speaks.

[@edzielinski]

Excellent. Thank you. **For anyone concerned about the audio quality, I have found that turning on the closed captions works quite well.

[@fredrikfalkerstedt2134]

The audio quality is painfully bad.

[@AlgoNudger]

Thanks.

[@arlenestanton9955]

Read the transcript

[@Chuchuguitar]

Well played Hans Kim!

[@persistenthomology]

It seems like everyone is wearing mics. Did the mics fail, or is using the room sound an error on the video production side? Edit: I'm about halfway in, and even at maximum volume on my laptop it's difficult to make out some of what is being said. If there is any way the audio can be fixed (or even improved) and the video re-uploaded, we would all be greatly appreciative!

[@mpiMathSci]

Unfortunately we had an equipment failure and had to fall back to in-built mics and sound reconstruction to even be able to get this out of it. Sorry about that. We've added subtitles though.

[@garcia-rubio]

Everyone talking about the audio 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Simon-xi8tb]

When I'm met with a math problem that I don't know how to solve, I just go "Huh?"

[@jisoo-wk5bk]

👍👍

[@daddyneedsmilk4562]

nice sound quality! lmao

[@mpiMathSci]

Unfortunately we had an equipment failure and had to fall back to in-built mics and sound reconstruction to even be able to get this out of it. Sorry about that. We've added subtitles though.

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

Is it the month of May? June. Huh?

[@migfed]

This guy's need desperately a couple of good mics!

[@jisoo-wk5bk]

[@linzihong9520]

such uninspiring questions... and yet he still managed to give interesting answers to many of them

[@BruceCooper-dc8bc]

Wow the sound is awful!

[@xyz.......494]

Bad audio quality