Interview with Jeremiah Heller and Vesna Stojanoska

In this interview, Jeremiah Heller and Vesna Stojanoska share their experience of combining math and family life, discuss their ways to get over occasional demotivation in research and speak about social aspects of research. Jokes included!

Jeremiah's homepage: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~jbheller/
Vesna's homepage: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~vesna/

Mike Hopkins’ talk at Paul Goerss’ birthday conference: youtu.be/Ix4pg87LKVk

Chapters:
0:00 teaser
0:34 their family and other animals
4:04 kids’ curiosity about math
8:30 wishes for kids’ future
11:04 existential chat about adulthood 
13:51 research & relationship
16:13 finding friends outside math bubble
19:26 two-body problem
21:59 math talks as storytelling
27:01 approaches to doing math
31:02 getting over demotivation in research
35:23 mathematics is a social endeavour
37:12 jobmarket pressure
43:24 having kids & academia
47:18 solid advice