Dr. Chang

10/16/19 • 16 min

On this episode, we speak with Dr. Chang. We speak about her journey through math and how her background growing up influenced her school and career decisions. Here are the questions that we asked her: Can you please introduce yourself? (name, years at CSULB, classes that you teach, where did you go to school?)

Why did you choose to study math? What was your math journey like(was it super easy? Super difficult? What made it being so hard worth the struggle?)
Why did you become a professor?
Was there anything you did as an undergraduate to help you get ready for grad school? Or if you even wanted to go to grade school?
What do you think makes pure math and applied math different?
Do you have any research you are working on? If so what is it? If not, then could you talk about your PHD or any other research you did?
What is your favorite theorem

Why did you choose to study math? What was your math journey like(was it super easy? Super difficult? What made it being so hard worth the struggle?)
Why did you become a professor?
Was there anything you did as an undergraduate to help you get ready for grad school? Or if you even wanted to go to grade school?
What do you think makes pure math and applied math different?
Do you have any research you are working on? If so what is it? If not, then could you talk about your PHD or any other research you did?
What is your favorite theorem

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Dr. Ryan Blair

On this episode, we speak with Dr. Ryan Blair. Here are the questions that we went over with the professor:

Can you please introduce yourself? (name, years at CSULB, classes that you teach, where did you go to school?)

Why did you choose to study math? What was your math journey like(was it super easy? Super difficult? What made it being so hard worth the struggle?)
Why did you become a professor?
What do you think math is? Or do you think math is beyond words?
What do you think makes pure math and applied math different?
Do you have any research you are working on? If so what is it? If not, then could you talk about your PHD or any other research you did?
What is your favorite theorem?

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Ricky Lee

We spoke with Ricky Lee, a graduate student here at CSULB. Here are the questions that we asked Ricky 1). Can you please introduce yourself? (name, years at CSULB, TA for any classes, what were they? Where did you go to school before CSULB?)

2). Why did you choose to study math? What was your math journey like(was it super easy? Super difficult? What made it being so hard worth the struggle?)

3). What career options are you looking at? Are you going to go for a PHD? Professor? Industry?

4). What do you think makes pure math and applied math different?

What do you think the most important course work is for each discipline?

5). Are you going to do the thesis? Or the Comps? How did you decide?

6). Do you have any research you are working on? If so what is it? If not, do you have any ideas for a thesis?

7). What is your favorite theorem?