Kenneth M. Golden
Kenneth "Ken" Morgan Golden is an American applied mathematician and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah. He is recognized as the "Indiana Jones of Mathematics" for his work in polar climate modeling and has traveled to the polar regions eighteen times, in total, to study sea ice.[1][2][3][4]
Ken Golden | |
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| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College New York University |
| Known for | "Indiana Jones of Mathematics" |
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| Fields | Applied mathematics Geomathematics |
| Institutions | Rutgers University Princeton University University of Utah |
| Thesis | Bounds for Effective Parameters of Multicomponent Media by Analytic Continuation (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | George C. Papanicolaou |
| Influences | Jay Zwally Stephen F. Ackley |
Biography
Golden first became interested in sea ice in his senior year of high school while working on a project studying passive microwave images of Antarctic sea ice at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.[5][6] He enrolled in Dartmouth College so that he could work at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory with Stephen F. Ackley.[7] He graduated from Dartmouth in 1980 with his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics, and enrolled in the PhD program at the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He received his PhD in 1984 and then worked as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in mathematical physics at Rutgers University and as an assistant professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah in 1991.[6][8] In 2012 he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9] Golden's research focuses on modeling sea ice and its role in the climate system using theories of composite materials and statistical physics.[10]
References
- ^ Gowda, Karna (12 January 2013). "Ken Golden featured in Union Tribune San Diego". Mathematics and Climate Research Network. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ Harden, Ben (25 August 2014). "The Indiana Jones of Mathematics". PRX. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "What is a mathematical physicist doing out in the cold?". Physics Today. 2016. doi:10.1063/pt.5.9055.
- ^ Holland, Marika M.; Perovich, Donald (2017-03-27). "Sea Ice Summer Camp: Bringing together sea ice modelers and observers to advance polar science". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98 (10): 2057–2059. Bibcode:2017BAMS...98.2057H. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0229.1. ISSN 0003-0007.
- ^ "Class Notes 1980". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. March 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ a b Mackenzie, Dana (27 March 2009). "Cold Equations". Science. 324 (5923): 32–3. doi:10.1126/science.324.5923.32. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 19342566. S2CID 206585707. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ Greiwe, Liz (15 October 2014). "Meet Ken Golden: Arctic adventurer and mathematician". Loyola Phoenix. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "Joint Mathematics Meetings". jointmathematicsmeetings.org. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-08-09.
- ^ Golden, Kenneth (September 2015). "Mathematics of sea ice". The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics: 694–705. ISBN 9780691150390.