Rebecca Goldin
| Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences |
| Director of Research, STATS |
| George Mason University |
| rgoldin (at) math (dot) gmu (dot) edu |
| Science and Technology I, Room 207 |
| 703-993-1480 |
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 several weeks in the fall and the spring each. In addition to my time at MSRI whose dates are not entirely fixed, 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
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 (Ebey
Lecture) Sewanee, Tennessee
Mar. 15-19 American Institute of Mathematics (Conference
Organizer, with W. Fulton and J. Tymoczko), Palo Alto, CA
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.