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
• This semester I taught Math 437 , ``Differential Forms'' (Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-10:45 in MATH 0409).
• Next semester I will teach Math 431, ``Geometry for Computers.''
• Director and co-founder, Experimental Geometry Lab. See the recent Scientific American article.

Research Activities:

• lectures and conferences before 2013
• In 2013, I spoke in colloquia and seminars in Mathematics Departments at the University of Oregon, Howard University, Indiana University and Towson University. Check out the YouTube video of my Colloquium talk at Howard University.
• February 4-6: Advances in Teichmueller Theory, Erwin Schroedinger Institute.
• March 20: I gave the Fuzzy Vance Distinguished Visitor Lecture at Oberlin College. Check out the videos on YouTube, and the slides of my talk.
• April 11: I spoke at the Workshop on Dynamics of Groups and Rational Maps, at the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA.
• June 30-July 6: Differentialgeometrie im Grossen, Oberwolfach
• September 15-20: Co-organizer, Exotic Geometric Structures ICERM Workshop, Brown University.
• October 18-19, 2014: Invited Address, Meeting of American Mathematical Society, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• August 7-12, 2014: Scientific Committee and Plenary Speaker, ICM Satellite Conference, Geometry on Groups and Spaces, KAIST, Daejon, Korea
• Spring 2015: Co-organizer, Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

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
• Committee on the Profession, American Mathematical Society.
• Scientific Advisory Panel, Fields Institute, Toronto.
• Scientific Committee, Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium.

Curriculum Vitae

Research papers

Selected reviews

Previous and current research students

• Slides from my recent seminar talk on ``Crooked Geometry'' at Jussieu.
• My slides and the paper for my talk at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians.
• Notes Projective Geometry on Manifolds from a previous course given in 1988
• My review of Fock and Goncharov's "Moduli of local systems and higher Teichmueller theory"
• 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 lecture at the Conference on Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Character Varieties, at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, August 10, 2010 (co-organized with Caroline Series and Ser Peow Tan).

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