papers

Articles by Rebecca Goldin

SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
The Full Orbifold K-theory of Abelian Symplectic Quotients, joint with M. Harada, T. Holm and T. Kimura.
Toward a Semantic General Theory of Everything, joint with G. Ascoli and A. Samsonivich.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS (MATHEMATICS)
Towards Generalizing Schubert Calculus in the Symplectic Category, joint with Susan Tolman. To appear in Journal of Symplectic Geometry. Orbifold cohomology of hypertoric varieties, joint with M. Harada, International Journal of Math. 18 no. 8 (2008), pp. 927-956. Arxiv version math.DG/0607421 Weighted hyperprojective space and homotopy invariance in orbifold cohomology, AMS Contemporary Mathematics 460 (2008), pp. 99-110. Arxiv version: arXiv:0708.2278. Orbifold cohomology of torus quotients, joint with A. Knutson and T. Holm. Duke Math. J. 139 no. 1 (2007), 89–139. Arxiv version: math.SG/0502429. Cohomology pairings on the symplectic reduction of products, joint with S. Martin. Canad. J. Math. 58 (2006), no. 2, 362--380. [pdf], [ps] Cohomology of symplectic reductions of generic coadjoint orbits, joint with A.-L. Mare. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), no. 10, 3069--3074. [pdf], [ps] Real loci of symplectic reductions, joint with T. Holm. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), no. 11, 4623--4642. Distinguishing the chambers of the moment polytope, joint with T. Holm and L. Jeffrey. Journal of Symplectic Geometry, vol. 2, no. 1 (2003), pp. 109-131. An effective algorithm for the cohomology ring of symplectic reduction. Geom. Funct. Anal. 12 (2002), pp. 567-583. The cohomology rings of weight varieties and polygon spaces. Adv. Math., 160 (2001), no. 2, pp. 175-204. The equivariant cohomology of Hamiltonian G-spaces from residual S1 actions, joint with T. Holm. Math. Res. Let., 8 (2001), pp. 67-77. [pdf], [ps] Resolving singularities of plane analytic branches with one toric morphism, joint with B. Teissier. Resolultion of Singularities, Progress in Mathematics 181 (2000), pp. 315-340. [pdf], [ps] Counting dendritic spines: a somatocentric approach, joint with G. Ascoli. Complexity 2 (1997), no. 4, pp. 40-48. OTHER PUBLISHED ARTICLES (MIXED SUBJECT MATERIALS): Doting on Data: a Review of Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart, by Ian Ayres, Notices of the AMS, To appear, April, 2009. The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media, AWM Newsletter, November-December, 2008. College Rankings: F. Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 3, 2006. How Summers Offended, joint with G. Goldin and A. Foulkes. The Washington Post, February 21, 2005. Kirwan surjectivity for preorbifold cohomology, joint with A. Knutson and T. Holm. Cohomological Aspects of Hamiltonian Group Actions, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. Report no. 20 (2004), pp. 36-39. Writing about mathematics. Writing Across the Curriculum Newsletter (2004), Volume VII, Issue II. The cohomology ring of weight varieties. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT (1999). [pdf], [ps] MEDIA, POLLING, PUBLIC HEALTH, RISK (HIGHLIGHTS) PBS Now. Interviewed for March 21, 2008 show. Here I respond to their excessive editing. This followed Media Claims Phthalates (Might) Cause Genital Defects and related work, published online at www.stats.org. Subsequent appearance on NBC-7 News in Boston, ABC News in Washington D.C., and citation in the New York Times. Citation on WebMD about plastic safety (January 2009) ABC-San Francisco. Appearance discussing baby bottle research (2008) New York Times Letter to the Editor. This letter noted poor coverage of the science of breast-feeing (2006). Follows from material in What Science Really Says About the Benefits of Breast-Feeding (and what the New York Times didn’t tell you), joint with E. Smyth and A. Foulkes. June 20, 2006. National Public Radio and CNN appearances to discuss women in mathematics and academic censure (2005) About 100 additional articles can be found online with STATS at www.stats.org. Recent in-depth topics include the health pros/cons to breastfeeding, the known and unknown impact of alcohol, the deaths in Iraq since the US invasion, and our statistical Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for journalists, now being used by the Annenberg School of Journalism. Additionally, I oversee work done by others at STATS including topics such as drug use/abuse, risky teen behavior, chemicals in everyday products, polling methods, divorce and marriage, and more.