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GUY: |
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My
name is Bob Guy and I work for the University
of Utah Mathematics Department. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
kind of science do you do? |
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GUY: |
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I
do applied mathematics. Specifically
I do modeling in the biological sciences
and I've begun to work a little bit
in nonmechanical fluids. |
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ASPIRE: |
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Is
it research, theory, or experimental? |
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GUY: |
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I
do research and theoretical things.
I wouldn't say that I do anything experimental.
The model is theory because it requires
someone else to test it at the lab and
research I guess is a general term that
applies to everything that we do. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
makes your science important? |
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GUY: |
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What
makes my science important… That's
something I have yet to figure out.
But let me think. If I can come up with
a good answer for that. What makes it
important is that by doing theory and
specifically applying math to other
kinds of science and hoping to broaden
other scientists views of their work
and may look at experiments or data
and I see something from a mathematical
perspective that the experimental scientists
does not see and I hope by modeling
and other things that I've done. I can
broaden other fields of science besides
mathematics. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
made you decide to go into the field
you study? |
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GUY: |
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I
originally wanted to be a chemist. I
think I always wanted to be a scientist
from the time I was little and it was
for quite a while, it was for going
to be a physical scientist, say chemist
or physicist. But I was good at math
and I exceled at math when I was in
collegue and I really started to enjoy
it near the end of college and I decided
to pursue mathematics but I wanted to
be a scientist. So I thought pursuing
applied mathematics as I did in graduate
school would allow me to do both math
and science. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
is yourt academic backround? |
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GUY: |
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So
I have a bachelors degree in pure mathematics
from University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill. I have a masters from University
of Utah in applied math and I almost
have a PhD in mathematics from University
of Utah. |
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ASPIRE: |
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And
how did you come to the U of U? |
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GUY: |
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I
was looking for several things. At one
point in my life I thought I might want
to be a computational scientist and
they both have very strong applied math
and very strong applied math here at
the Universirty of Utah. And so I thought
that was attractive. I have since not
done a whole lot with the computer science
but I did for the first few years and
I knew people who had degrees from the
University of Utah who encourages me
to apply and that's why im here. |
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ASPIRE: |
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And
what do you like most about your job? |
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GUY: |
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What
I like most about my job is, well there's
several things is the freedom to explore
whatever ideas I want to explore. I'm
not being told to do this or to do that
on a daily bases. And I like the excitement
of discovering new things that possibly
other people have not discovered, no
one else has discovered before. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
do you like least about your job? |
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GUY: |
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What
I like least about my job is the feeling
that I'm never done and I can never
sort of take a break. I go home and
I continue to work on weekends and I
guess that goes along and decided about
it. At times I kind of wish I could
let go and be more free with my personal
time. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
hobbies do you have outside of science? |
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GUY: |
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Whay
hobbies do I have? I like traveling.
And I like relaxing with my friends
and my family. |
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ASPIRE: |
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What
advice would you give to an aspiring
scientist? |
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GUY: |
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What
advice would I give to an aspiring scientist…
I would say you have to be interested
with what your doing. You just have
to have self motivation to be able to
conduct research because I know if I
did not have self motivation it would
be ery hard to come in here and do something
for eight hours a day. So my advice
to a young scientist would be to make
sure that you love what your doing and
if your not so crazy about what your
doing, try to find something that you
love to do because that's what makes
it a great job. |
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ASPIRE: |
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Alright,
thank you for you time. |
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GUY: |
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Thank
you. |
