Hiranya Peiris

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454 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 25 May

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There was not a woman in sight.

And I was a young woman of color.

But I was placed in this team which treated me no different.

I was just told, this is what you have to do.

And I taught myself to code in C++.

I learned Unix.

That's correct.

What helped me is this feeling that once you've done something hard once, you can do it innumerable other times.

I could learn to do anything.

Again, I didn't really connect to the way of learning in lectures and so on.

That's right.

Yeah.

So I used to fall asleep in lectures.

But in my second year, I was accepted into a summer research internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

And that was a real turning point in my life.

That was a wonderful occasion.

So Stephen and Roger Penrose had contrasting ideas about the physics of the very early universe, and they were debating each other.

And I was transfixed by this lecture.

And then afterwards, I built up my courage.

I was a very, very shy young girl.

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