WILLIAM GOLDMAN

I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department and faculty in the AMSC graduate program at the...

• University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
  
• Office: 3106 Math Building, (301)-405-5124, FAX: (301)-314-0827
• Email: wmg AT math DOT umd DOT edu
• In Fall I taught Math 431, ``Geometry for Computer Applications.''
• In Spring 2014 I teach Math 437, "Differential Forms" (Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-10:45 in MATH 0409) and Math 848G, "Geometric Structures on Manifolds" (Tuesday-Thursday 11:00-12:15 in ENG 1102).
• Director and co-founder, Experimental Geometry Lab. See the recent Scientific American article.

Research Activities:

• lectures and conferences before 2014
• Workshop, New Trends in Teichmuller theory and Mapping Class Groups, Oberwolfach, 9-14 February 2014
• Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, 28 February 2014
• Special Session "Low-dimensional Topology and Group Theory", AMS Sectional meeting March 29-30, 2014, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
• Minicourse Speaker, Geometric structures and discrete groups, 2-4 May, University of Texas, Austin.
• Minicourse Speaker, GGTM Research School, Configuration and moduli spaces in Math. and Physics, In memory of Bill Thurston, Rabat, Morocco, 3-6 June 2014
• Minicourse Speaker, Conference Speaker, Teichmueller theory and surfaces in 3-manifolds, 26 May-20 June 2014 Centro di Ricerca Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi", Pisa
• Colloquium, De Paul University
• GEAR Network Seminar, University of Illinois
• Colloquium, George Mason University
• Master Class, Summer School, Finsler Geometry with Applications, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, 22-30 September 2014.
• October 18-19, 2014: Invited Address, Meeting of American Mathematical Society, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Recent Administrative Activities:

• Network Executive Committee, GEAR Network, Research Network in the Mathematical Sciences.
• Recently served as Editor-in-Chief (2003- April 2013) Geometriae Dedicata
• Chair, Organizing Committee of GEAR Network Retreat, March 17-21, 2014 at University of Maryland (University College).
• Committee on the Profession, American Mathematical Society.
• Scientific Advisory Panel, Fields Institute, Toronto.
• Scientific Committee, Kortijk workshop on "Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures with Applications V," Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium June 2-6, 2014.
• Scientific Committee, Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium 2014, Yale University, October 23-26.
• Spring 2015: Co-organizer, Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

Curriculum Vitae

Research papers

Selected reviews

Previous and current research students

• Notes Projective Geometry on Manifolds from a previous course given in 1988
• Background Material for Workshop on Representations of Surface Groups,
  co-organized with Steve Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada and Anna Wienhard,
  American Institute of Mathematics, 19-23 March 2007.
• My review of Fock and Goncharov's "Moduli of local systems and higher Teichmueller theory"

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