Interview with Marc Levine

<p>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.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Marc's webpage: <a href="https://www.esaga.uni-due.de/marc.levine/">https://www.esaga.uni-due.de/marc.levine/</a></p> <p>Photo: Marc's private photo collection</p> <p><br></p> <p>0:00​ teaser</p> <p>0:48​ becoming a mathematician</p> <p>2:51​ family’s reaction</p> <p>4:48​ moving from USA to Germany</p> <p>6:55​ bilingualism and jokes</p> <p>10:40​ skills for doing research</p> <p>14:15​ encouraging to stay in academia</p> <p>17:06​ PhD advising&nbsp;</p> <p>18:55​ what is work</p> <p>20:20​ mysterious time-management</p> <p>23:00​ not being judgmental</p> <p>25:08​ geometric intuition</p> <p>27:55​ thinking too fast</p> <p>29:03​ challenge of moving forward</p> <p>32:24​ finding math problems</p> <p>35:26​ independence after graduation</p> <p>38:21​ serious research mistakes</p> <p>43:09​ how to learn motivic homotopy theory</p> <p>45:45​ learning math backwards</p> <p>47:28​ changes in the math community</p> <p>51:31​ mathematical inspiration</p> <p>53:21​ funny conference encounter</p> <p>55:12​ my gratitude and R. Kipling</p> <p>59:13​ advice to young mathematicians</p> <p><br></p>