Rebecca Goldin

Rebecca Goldin
Goldin at Oberwolfach, 2012
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
Thesis The Cohomology of Weight Varieties
Doctoral advisorVictor Guillemin
Websitemath.gmu.edu/~rgoldin/

Rebecca Freja Goldin is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University and director of the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonprofit organization associated with GMU that aims to improve the use of statistics in journalism. Her mathematical research concerns symplectic geometry, including work on Hamiltonian actions and symplectic quotients.

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