Carolyn S. Gordon

Carolyn S. Gordon is a Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, holding the Benjamin Cheney Professorship in Mathematics. She is affiliated with the Department of Mathematics, where her research focuses on Riemannian Geometry, inverse spectral problems, and the geometry of Lie groups.

Education:

• B.S., Purdue University
• M.S., Purdue University
• Ph.D., Washington University

Research Interests: Her work explores the spectral properties of geometric structures, including isospectral manifolds, transplantation techniques, and symplectic rigidity in nilmanifolds. She investigates how geometric features influence spectral invariants and vice versa, with applications to global analysis and geometric flows.

Works in Progress: Current projects include asymptotic expansions of heat kernels on orbifolds, inverse spectral results on even-dimensional tori, isoscattering obstacles and potentials, and spectral analysis of normal homogeneous metrics.

Grants & Advising: No grants or student advisees are explicitly listed in the provided materials. She contributes to the Mathematics Department’s research initiatives and collaborates with international scholars.

Labs/Teams: Active in collaborative research groups within differential geometry and spectral theory, but no specific lab or team names are mentioned.