Interview at Cirm: Jayadev Athreya

Jayadev Athreya is a Professor of Mathematics and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, and the co-Director, International for the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the founder of the Washington Experimental Mathematics Lab. He will be Chair Jean-Morlet at CIRM-Luminy in 2023. He is originally from Ames, Iowa where he graduated from Iowa State University. Athreya completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, had postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton, and was previously at the University of Illinois before moving to the University of Washington. He has held visiting positions in the UK, France, and India. Much of his research is in geometry, dynamical systems, and the creative processes of mathematics.

Interview and editing: Stéphanie Vareilles, CIRM
Camera operator: Guillaume Hennenfent, Le Chromophore

Interview conducted on September 20, 2022
Published on November 8, 2022