#09 “The beauty of results”: an interview with Professor Svitlana Mayboroda
Duration: 21 mins 24 secs
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Episode #9 welcomes Professor Svitlana Mayboroda to the podcast. The Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow (https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/kirk) for the "Approximation, sampling and compression in data science" programme, Svitlana talks us through a brief history of her career, her specialism in harmonic analysis, a love of mathematics for its own sake and the research aims that she and her collaborators are working towards during their time at INI.
Hosted by: Dan Aspel (INI Communications Manager) |
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Created: | 2019-06-24 16:20 | ||||
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Collection: | Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast | ||||
Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||
Copyright: | Dan Aspel | ||||
Language: | eng (English) | ||||
Keywords: | mathematics; cambridge; isaac newton institute; INI; | ||||
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Abstract: | 00:00 – Introductions
01:43 – Early career decision points and working in the USA 03:08 – Growing up in Ukraine and the career options that lay ahead 03:50 – Looking at the ASC programme and its research aims 06:00 – The draw of harmonic analysis 07:30 – Collaborations between physicists and mathematicians 10:45 – Applications aplenty, but “the mathematics still drives me” 12:40 – Receiving the Kirk Fellowship (https://www.newton.ac.uk/about/fellowships/kirk): is it a “good thing”? 17:55 – Summer travels and academic visits 18:56 – In praise of the Isaac Newton Institute, “the primary way for mathematicians to collaborate” |
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