Heidi Goodson
Associate Professor
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
I'm an Associate Professor and the Math Graduate Deputy in the Math Department at Brooklyn College. I received my PhD in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. My research lies in the fields of number theory and arithmetic geometry. I identify as a first generation college graduate.
My interactions with students and colleagues are built up from the following axioms written by Professor Federico Ardila at San Francisco State University:
Axiom 1. Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Axiom 4. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
In addition to my research and teaching, I am also a co-founder and co-organizer of the Rethinking Number Theory workshop series. Check out the tabs above for more info about what I work on.
My research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (DMS - 2201085) and The Professional Staff Congress and The City University of New York. In Spring 2024 and 2025, my research with undergraduates was supported by the Brooklyn College Tow Mentoring and Research Program.
Here is my CV (updated November 2024)
Upcoming Math Events:
February 2025: American Institute of Math - AIM SQuaREs
June 2025: Rethinking Number Theory 6 (virtual)
Some past events:
January 2025: Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, WA
Fall 2024: Hofstra University Math Seminar; Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry seminar at Washington University in St. Louis; Algebra and Number Theory seminar at Louisiana State University
Summer 2024: Rethinking Number Theory 5 (virtual); 2024: CAVARET : "Curves, Abelian VArieties and RElated Topics". Barcelona, Spain
Spring 2024: Dr. Janet Liou-Mark Honors and Undergraduate Research Scholars Program at City Tech (keynote speaker); American Institute of Math - AIM SQuaREs; Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation Annual Meeting
Fall 2023: Algebra and Number Theory Seminar at Wesleyan University; Front Range Number Theory Day in Fort Collins, Colorado; AWM Research Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia
June 2023: Rethinking Number Theory 4 (virtual)
Spring 2023: Research visit at the Università di Pisa Mathematics Department; Women in Numbers 6 at the Banff International Research Station in Canada
Fall 2022: Research visit at Oklahoma State University; University of Arizona Algebra and Number Theory Seminar; Tufts University Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory Seminar
Summer 2022: MAA MathFest in Philadelphia; Rethinking Number Theory Workshop (virtual)
April 2022: Diamant 2022 Symposium in Utrecht, the Netherlands; Number Theory Seminar at the Universitat de Barcelona.
March - April 2022: Research Residency at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany
Winter 2022: Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation Annual Meeting; Research talks at University of Utah, University of British Columbia, and University of California - Irvine.
Summer 2021: Rethinking Number Theory Workshop (virtual); Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory Conference in Marseille, France (hybrid).
October 2020: The first ever Rethinking Number Theory Workshop (online!)
October 2019: The Number/Representation Theory Seminar at University of Toronto. Travel was supported by MSRI.
Summer 2019: Project Leader at Women in Sage: Sage Days 103 in St. Louis; Summer Research in Mathematics at MSRI. Travel was supported by MSRI; Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory Conference in Marseille, France. Travel was supported by an AWM-NSF Travel Grant.
Fall 2018: Québec-Maine Number Theory Conference in Quebec, Canada; Conference on Open Questions in Cryptography and Number Theory in Irvine, California.