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Roy Goodman

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Contact Info:
Office: 624 Cullimore Hall
phone: (973)642-4261
fax: (973)596-5591

mailing address:
NJIT Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102

e-mail: My email address


Spring 2009 Teaching:
Math 337-H02 Honors Linear Algebra, T 11:30-12:55, F 2:30-3:55
Math 340-002 Applied Numerical Methods, T 2:30-3:55, R 11:30-12:55
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:30, Thursday 1:00-2:30

Fall 2008 Teaching: 
Math 111-005 Calculus I, TRF 1:00-2:25, 409 Faculty Memorial Hall, link to old exams
Math 611-101 Numerical Methods for Computation, Thurs 6:00-9:10 PM, 112 Tiernan Hall

Other Departmental Duties:
Academic Advsior, Applied Math Majors
Advisor, NJIT Math Club (The Pi-Landers)
    Upcoming events, email me for info:

Organizer, Wave Propagation Seminar
Short CV:

Research Interests: Nonlinear waves, optics, dynamical systems, especially the intersection of the three in solitary wave interaction problems, invariant manifolds

Postdoc:  NSF University-Industry postdoctoral fellow jointly in the Fundamental Mathematics Department at Bell Labs and at the Princeton Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, 1999-2001
Advisors: Phil Holmes (Princeton), Michael Weinstein (Bell Labs, now Columbia APAM)

Ph.D. Mathematical Sciences Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1999
Advisor: Prof. David McLaughlin, now the provost.
Thesis  on asymptotic modeling of atmospheric fluid dynamics. 

B.S. Mathematics, highest honors from The University of Michigan, 1994

Full CV

Publications (reprints, preprints, links to journals, some commentary)

Support: Research supported by the NSF under grants DMS-0204881, DMS-0506495, and DMS-0807284. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Slightly work-related:  I've been running an integral bee as advisor to the math club.  I wrote some LaTeX files to make it easy to construct the contest.  Maybe they'll be useful to someone else.
Personal Info:

sarah My wife Sarah Berger does very interesting work on the development of cognigtion and locomotion in infants, and, by the way, that's Noah up top with me.
New Yorker Cover Yes, That was me you read about in Talk of the Town, July 31, 2006
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Last modified: 4/17/2009