On Tuesday October 6, 2015, Dr. Edray H. Goins visited the Department of Mathematical Sciences. He presented the inaugural talk of Minorities in Mathematics Speaker Series. Over sixty cadets attended his talk on ‘Fuchsian Differential Equations with Prescribed Monodromy: An Introduction to Solving a Quintic Without Using Radicals’.
Dr. Goins grew up in South Los Angeles, California. The product of the Los Angeles Unified (LAUSD) public school system, he attended the California Institute of Technology, where he majored in mathematics and physics, and earned his doctorate in mathematics from Stanford University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He works in the field of number theory, as it pertains to the intersection of representation theory and algebraic geometry.