#SoCaltech: David Conlon

“I'm working hard on finishing up several ongoing projects, but I'm punctuating the work with long walks through Dublin, especially down by the water in the evenings. I've also been practicing my juggling, which I've been doing since I was about 18. When you do 20 minutes a day, your skills start to accelerate. I'm up to five balls. Every time you add a ball, the whole arrangement becomes higher and faster, so you have to be much more precise in your throws. Sometimes it feels a lot like math, where you're often keeping many balls in the air at once.”

David Conlon is a professor of mathematics who joined the Caltech faculty in 2019. Conlon is currently working remotely in Dublin, where he happened to be when the coronavirus pandemic struck.

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