Rebecca Goldin
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AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer 2008
Rebecca Goldin | |
|---|---|
 Goldin at Oberwolfach, 2012 | |
| Alma mater | Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 |
| Known for | Work on Hamiltonian actions and symplectic quotients |
| Awards | Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer 2008 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | George Mason University |
| Thesis | The Cohomology of Weight Varieties |
| Doctoral advisor | Victor Guillemin |
| Website | math |
Rebecca Freja Goldin is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University[1] and director of the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonprofit organization associated with GMU that aims to improve the use of statistics in journalism.[2] Her mathematical research concerns symplectic geometry, including work on Hamiltonian actions and symplectic quotients.[3]
After graduating with honors in mathematics from Harvard University,[4] Goldin studied in France for a year with Bernard Teissier at the École Normale Supérieure,[5] pursuing research on toric varieties.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Victor Guillemin.[6]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, she joined the GMU faculty in 2001.[4][5]
