Dr. Edray Herber Goins

### Personal

 Prefix: Dr.
 First Name: Edray
 Middle Name: Herber
 Last Name: Goins

### Education

 College: California Institute of Technology
 Degree: B.S.
 Major: Mathematics

 College: Stanford University
 Degree: Ph.D.
 Edray was raised, along with his brother, by his mother in South Central Los Angeles,. His mother was a school teacher, Edray credits her " and other teachers in the public schools he attended with encouraging and motivating him to study hard and to take an additional learning challenges." ?Even at young age, Edray had a thirst fo knowledge. He asked his teachers to let him study ahead or subjects not part of the curriculum. Correspondingly, during graduate school and the postdoctoral positions he's held, Goins has made a consistent effort to mentor Black and other minority students seriously interested in mathematics and science. Students my enjoy his Diary of a Black Mathematician. For his own personal enjoyment, Edray plays the piano and harpsichord. ?After earning his Ph.D. in Number Theory at Stanford university, Dr. Goins was a post-doc at MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) from August 1999 to September 1999. Then he was a post-doc at Institute for Advanced Study (see list of Black Mathematician official visitors to the IAS) from September 1999 to June 2000. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Irvine Visiting Professor and Taussky-Todd Instructor at California Institute of Technology. In the Fall of 2004. He became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University. His colloquia are to this mathematician,like sounds of golden nector. PUBLICATIONS Goins, Edray; Icosahedral Q-Curve Extensions, Math. Res. Lett. 10 (2003), no. 2-3. Goins, Edray; Togbe, Alain. Pythagorean quadruplets Goins, Edray A ternary algebra with applications to binary quadratic forms. Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. IV (Baltimore, MD, 2000), 7--12, Contemp. Math., 284, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001. Goins, Edray Herber Artin's conjecture and elliptic curves. Contemp. Math., 275, 39--51, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001. Currie, M. R.; Goins, E. H. The fractional parts of $\frac nk$. Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. III (Baltimore, MD, 1997/Ann Arbor, MI, 1999), 13--31, Contemp. Math., 275, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2001. Papers in transition: Heron Triangles via Elliptic Curves with Davin Maddox Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (To appear) On the Modularity of Wildly Ramified Galois Representations Submitted Explicit Descent via 4-Isogeny on an Elliptic Curve Submitted Heron Triangles, Diophantine Problems and Elliptic Curves with Garikai Campbell Submitted Extending the Serre-Faltings Method for Q-Curves In Preparation