Rebecca Goldin

Mathematics Articles in Refereed Journals

Torsion in the full orbifold K-theory of abelian symplectic quotients. Rebecca Goldin, Megumi Harada, Tara S. Holm. Submitted for publication.

The Full Orbifold $K$-theory of Abelian Symplectic Quotients. Rebecca Goldin, Megumi Harada, Tara S. Holm, Takashi Kimura. To appear in Journal of K-theory.

Toward a Semantic General Theory of Everything. Alexei Samsonovich, Rebecca Goldin, and Giorgio Ascoli. To appear in Complexity.

Towards Generalizing Schubert Calculus in the Symplectic Category. R. F. Goldin, S. Tolman. Journal of Symplectic Geometry 7 (2009), 449-473.

Weighted hyperprojective spaces and homotopy invariance in orbifold cohomology. Rebecca F. Goldin. Toric topology, 99--110, Contemp. Math., 460, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2008.

Orbifold cohomology of hypertoric varieties. Rebecca Goldin, Megumi Harada. Internat. J. Math. 19 (2008), no. 8, 927--956.

Orbifold cohomology of torus quotients. Rebecca Goldin, Tara S. Holm, Allen Knutson. Duke Math. J. 139 (2007), no. 1, 89--139.

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

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

Real loci of symplectic reductions. R. F. Goldin, T. S. Holm. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), no. 11, 4623--4642.

Distinguishing the Chambers of the Moment Polytope. Rebecca F. Goldin, Tara S. Holm, Lisa C. Jeffrey. Journal of Symplectic Geometry, 2 (2003), no. 1, pp. 109-131.

An effective algorithm for the cohomology ring of symplectic reductions. R. F. Goldin. Geom. Func. Anal., 12 (2002) 567-583.

The cohomology ring of weight varieties and polygon spaces. R. F. Goldin. Advances in Mathematics 160 (2001), no. 2, pp. 175-204.

The equivariant cohomology of Hamiltonian $G$-spaces From Residual $S^1$ Actions. Rebecca Goldin, Tara S. Holm. Math. Res. Let. 8 (2001),

Resolving singularities of plane analytic branches with one toric morphism. R. F. Goldin and B. Teissier, Resolultion of Singularities, Progress in Mathematics 181 (2000), pp. 315-340. [pdf], [ps]

Counting dendritic spines: a somatocentric approach. G. Ascoli and R. F. Goldin. Complexity 2 (1997), no. 4, pp. 40-48.

Other Peer-Reviewed Publications

Doting on data. Book review of Super crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart. Rebecca Goldin. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2009), no. 4, 483--487.

Menopause Research: a Report on Select Literature. Scientific Report prepared for the Hormone Foundation (2009), reviewed by three MDs. On the Hormone Foundation website (5,000 words).

Frequently Asked Questions (about Hormone Replacement Therapy). (2009) On the Hormone Foundation website.

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications/Posters

Over 100 articles posted online at www.stats.org.

Spinning Heads and Spinning News: How a Lack of Statistical Proficiency Affects Media Coverage, by R. Goldin., Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings (2009), Section on Statistical Learning.

Semantic Cognitive Mapping of Natural Language, by A. Samsonoich, G. Ascoli and R. Goldin, presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Washington Dc., July 24, 2008. Section “Language and Speech”, poster No. 85.

The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media, by R. Goldin. AWM Newsletter, October, 2008.

The Ranking Frenzy, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 3, 2006.

How Summers Offended, with G. Goldin and A. Foulkes. Published in the Washington Post op-ed section, February 21, 2005.

Kids and Sleeping Pills: Assessing the Media Coverage in the 2005 Medco Report, with Grace Harris. To appear in Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (10^th Edition), by Laurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen, January 2007.

Kirwan surjectivity for preorbifold cohomology, with T. Holm and A. Knutson. Cohomological Aspects of Hamiltonian Group Actions, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Report no. 20 (2004) 36-39.

Writing about mathematics. Writing Across the Curriculum Newsletter, Volume VII, Issue II (2004).

"The cohomology ring of weight varieties." Rebecca Goldin. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT (1999). [pdf], [ps]