E. Peña's Website
Some Personal Tidbits
Family Picture During
Christmas 2003
o I
am married to Marge who is
a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology of the University
of South Carolina. We have two children, Judith (21) and Michelle (19), who are
both internet-savvy and spends most of their leisure time chatting with friends
on the Internet. Judith likes to play the violin, piano, and enjoys singing,.
She is a senior at the
o I
came originally from the Philippine Islands, in particular, the
o For my hobbies I like listening to music, preferably classical, reading science, mathematics and John LeCarre type novels, playing chess in the Internet Chess Club (my ICC handle is epena). I especially enjoy the topsy-turvy world of blitz chess where instant gratification is possible, but at the same time, the onset of depression is always close by! For physical sports, I like playing squash, and always encourages friends to play it. Indeed, I typically require my PhD students (males) to learn it … and when they beat me in squash, then there is a positive probability that they will be able to complete their PhD degree, if they continue being my advisee (of course, if they can’t beat me in squash, they could always change advisor to improve their chances of getting their PhD)!! I am also trying to learn to play golf, though this now seems to be a far-off dream and may happen in my second life, assuming that there is such a thing as a second life.
o I also like to spend my leisure time doing things with my computers like creating web pages, a little bit of programming in a variety of languages, mastering the statistical packages such as R, S-Plus, SAS, and Minitab, or just browsing the World Wide Web.
