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WILLIAM GOLDMAN

Mathematics Department

University of Maryland

Office: 3106 William E. Kirwan Hall, 4176 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742-4015
TEL: (301)-405-5124, FAX: (301)-314-0827
EMAIL: wmg AT umd DOT edu

I am currently on sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study. Read my scholarly profile here.
In Fall 2020 I taught Math 431 (Geometry for Computer Applications), a course I've been developing for many years, now with Justin Wyss-Gallifent. In Spring 2021 I taught Math 848C (Geometric Structures); contact me if you'd like to watch the lectures, which were all recorded.
I serve on the faculty of both the MATH and AMSC graduate programs at the University of Maryland.
Co-director (with Rodrigo Trevino), Lab for Experimental Mathematics at MAryland (LEMMA). I cofounded this experiment with Richard Schwartz in 2000, when it was called the Experimental Geometry Lab. You can read about it here. I was one of the founding members of Geometry Labs United, and co-organized the Geometry Labs United Conference which took place at ICERM, 16-17 July 2020.

Meetings and Conferences before 2021.
Colloquium talk, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Resarch, Mohali, 12 February 2021
Seminar talk, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Resarch, Mohali, Wednesday 17 February 2021
Seminar talk, University of Heidelberg, Tuesday 23 February 2021
Organizing Committee, ``Analysis and Geometry: A symposium in honor of the 70th birthday of Scott Wolpert", University of Maryland, 8 March
Greater Washington Topology Seminar, George Washington University, 7 May 2021
Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz, 25 May 2021
Computational Aspects of Discrete Subgroups of Lie groups, ICERM, 14-18 June 2021. Here are the slides from my talk, and written version here.
International Conference on Discrete Groups, Geometry and Arithmetic: A virtual event in honour of M.S. Raghunathan's 80th birthday 9-11 August 2021.
Seminar talk, University of Maryland Dynamics Seminar, 2:00pm Thursday 7 October 2021
Introductory talk "Dyanmics on Character Varieties" in "Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic" Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Wednesday 10 November and 17 November 2021, Zoom link
24 January 2022, Members Colloquium, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
28 February 2022, Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar
2 March 2022, Mathematical Conversations (IAS)
Colloquium talk, Rutgers University, Newark, 27 April 2022
I have been invited to give the Burton Jones Distinguished Lectures at the University of California, Riverside in May 11-14, 2022.
``Geometry, Groups and Mathematical Philosophy --- An International Conference in Honor of Ravi S. Kulkarni's 80th Birthday", May 21-24, 2022

Recent Administrative Activities:

Member-At-Large of the Council of the American Mathematical Society and member of the Committee on Publications.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Brin Mathematics Research Center at the University of Maryland.
Administrative activities before 2015
Network Executive Committee (and original co-PI, and director of Maryland hub), GEAR Network, an NSF Research Network in the Mathematical Sciences.
Scientific Advisory Board (2020-2022), Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University.

Curriculum Vitae
Research papers
Selected reviews
Previous research students

Check out Evan Goldman's art

Recent draft of Proper actions of discrete groups of affine transformations, coauthored with Jeffrey Danciger, Todd Drumm and Ilia Smilga, from the Margulis Festschrift, ``Dynamics, Geometry, Number Theory: The Impact of Margulis in Modern Mathematics," University of Chicago Press. See also http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09520.

A preliminary draft of ``Flat Affine,Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historial Perspective" a recent survey, from ``Geometries in History" (S. Dani and A. Papadopoulos, eds. Springer 2019)

Last updated: Monday 9 May 2022