Biography
Kenneth M. Golden is a Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Utah. His scientific interests lie in composite materials, sea ice, climate change, phase transitions, and inverse problems. He has published 49 papers in mathematics, physics, geophysics, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering journals, and given over 250 invited lectures on six continents, including two presentations in the US Congress. Dr. Golden has journeyed on five Antarctic and five Arctic expeditions to study sea ice. In high school he became fascinated by the polar regions, studying satellite images of sea ice at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. As an undergraduate he worked at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory on radar propagation in sea ice, while completing degrees in Mathematics and Physics at Dartmouth College. Dr. Golden received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Courant Institute of NYU in 1984. Prior to moving to Utah in 1991, he was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University in mathematical physics. Professor Golden has received teaching awards from Princeton and the University of Utah. His research has been covered in newspaper, magazine, and web articles, including a profile in Science in April 2009, and he has been interviewed on both radio and television.