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Rebecca Goldin

Research Interests

My research is in symplectic geometry, group actions and related combinatorics. Among my interests are: Schubert polynomials and the intersection properties of Schubert varieties, toric varieties, equivariant cohomology, moment maps and symplectic and hyperkähler reduction, and orbifold cohomology. I have also become involved in the media's use of statistics and mathematics. Feel free to read my papers.

STATS

I am currently Director of Research at Statistical Assessment Service, or STATS, a non-profit educationally oriented media watch-dog group affiliated with George Mason. This is  in addition to my position in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. The main purpose of the organization is to promote the responsible and mathematically sound use of data and statistics in journalism and communication.

Conferences and my whereabouts

I have a Research Membership to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) during academic year 2009-2010, and I will be there for a couple weeks in the fall and the spring each. The dates for MSRI below are not entirely fixed. Other than that, you can find me as follows:

Oct. 2-4: Southern Ontario Groups and Geometry Conference at the Fields Institute
Oct. 22-23: Army Conference on Applied Statistics (Invited Address), Arizona State University
Oct. 26-29: University of IL, Champaign-Urbana (also speaking in the Differential Geometry Seminar)
Nov. 7: MAA-NJ (invited address)
Nov. 9-20: MSRI
Dec. 1: Swarthmore College (Colloquium)
Jan. 12-16:  2010 AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics meeting in San Francisco, CA, prefaced by a meeting for the Science Policy Committee of the AMS.
Feb. 2:  The University of the South (Sherwood Ebey Lectures), University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Mar. 9-14: MSRI?
Mar. 15-19: American Institute of Mathematics (Conference Organizer, with W. Fulton and J. Tymoczko), Palo Alto, CA
April 17: MAA-VA (invited address)
June 14-17: SIAM Discrete Math Conference (Minisymposium, Schubert Calculus), Austin, TX
Aug. 5-7: MAA Mathfest (Invited Address), Pittsburgh, PA

or in the DC-area outside those times. I am not necessarily in my office: please email me to contact me.

Teaching

This Spring ('10) I am teaching Math 739 (Differential Geometry). I have previously taught an assortment of graduate and undergraduate courses, as well as advised individual and summer projects.

If you're interested in working with me independently, you can ask my students what they think.

Family

My kids are an inspiration to me (here's Benjamin learning about flops with my colleague....). My other half is also a professor at George Mason (with his own website).
 

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This website is (as always) under construction. Last updated September 9, 2009.