Rebecca Goldin

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]

Rebecca Goldin
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
Known forWork on Hamiltonian actions and symplectic quotients
AwardsRuth I. Michler Memorial Prize
AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer 2008
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsGeorge Mason University
ThesisThe Cohomology of Weight Varieties
Doctoral advisorVictor Guillemin
Websitemath.gmu.edu/~rgoldin/

Education and career

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]

Recognition

She was the inaugural winner of the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), in 2007.[3][5] She was also the 2008 AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer, speaking on "The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Media".[7]

She was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to differential geometry and service to the mathematical community, particularly in support of promoting mathematical and statistical thinking to a wide audience".[8]

References
  1. GMU Math Faculty, retrieved 2016-06-30.
  2. about STATS.org, retrieved 2016-06-30.
  3. Rebecca Goldin selected as first recipient of Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize (PDF), Association for Women in Mathematics, March 28, 2007.
  4. An Interview with Rebecca Goldin, Mathematical Association of America, October 31, 2008, retrieved 2016-06-30.
  5. "Mathematics Professor Goldin Receives First Michler Prize", The Mason Gazette, March 30, 2007.
  6. Rebecca Goldin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Rebecca Goldin named 2008 Falconer Lecturer (PDF), Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2016-07-06.
  8. 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-07
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