Rebecca Goldin Associate Professor Director of Research, STATS Office: Science & Technology Building I, Room 207 Phone: (703) 993-1480 Fax: (703) 993-1491 E-mail: rgoldin@math.gmu.edu Personal Homepage: math.gmu.edu/~rgoldin

Education

• Ph.D., 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Symplectic Geometry

• B.A., 1993, Harvard University, Honors in Mathematics

Research

• Symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian group actions

• Equivariant cohomology and orbifold cohomology

• Schubert calculus and related combinatorics

Selected Publications

• Orbifold cohomology of torus quotients, joint with A. Knutson and T. Holm. To appear in Duke Math. J

• Cohomology pairings on the symplectic reduction of products, with S. Martin.  Canad. J. Math. 58 (2006), no. 2, 362--380

• Real loci of symplectic reductions, with T. Holm. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), no. 11, 4623--4642

• Cohomology of symplectic reductions of generic coadjoint orbits, with A.-L. Mare. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), no. 10, 3069--3074

• Distinguishing chambers of the moment polytope, with T. Holm and L. Jeffrey. J. Symplectic Geom. 2 (2003), no. 1, 109--131

Professional Awards and Invitations

• National Science Foundation Grant, "Manifolds with Group Actions", through 2009
• National Science Foundation Grant, "Symplectic Geometry and Schubert Calculus", through 2007
• Invited talk at the International Conference on Toric Geometry in Osaka, Japan.
• Lecture series: Introduction to Equivariant Cohomology and Hamiltonian T-spaces, Princeton University

• Visiting researcher to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, Spring, 2004

Current Students

• David Johannsen, doctoral

Past Students

• Cynthia Merrick, Master's Degree. “A Survey of the Algebraic and Topological Characteristics of SU(n)”
• Grace Harris, STATS internship