Roy Goodman
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
504a Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Roy completed his Ph.D. in 1999 at New York University's Courant Institute. He spent two years as a postdoc, splitting his time between Lucent Bell Laboratories and Princeton University. He joined the NJIT Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2001. He is currently Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.
Education
Ph.D. ; New York University ; Mathematics ; 1999

B.S. ; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ; Mathematics ; 1994

2025 Fall Courses
MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH

MATH 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

Teaching Interests
Applied and applicable mathematics: calculus, linear algebra, numerical methods, analysis, differential equations, dynamical systems, asymptotics, mathematical modeling
Past Courses
MATH 111: CALCULUS I

MATH 112: CALCULUS II

MATH 211: CALCULUS IIIA

MATH 222: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

MATH 227: MATHEMATICAL MODELING

MATH 331: INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ

MATH 332: INTRO COMPLEX VARIABLES

MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA

MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA HONORS

MATH 340: APPLIED NUMERICAL METHODS

MATH 440: ADV APPL NUMERICAL METH

MATH 440: ADVANCED APPLIED NUMERICAL METHODS

MATH 450: METHODS OF APPLIED MATH

MATH 451: HONORS- METHODS APPL MATH II

MATH 451: METHODS APPL MATH II

MATH 473: INTERMED DIFFEREN EQUATN

MATH 573: INTERMED DIFF EQUATIONS

MATH 611: NUMER METH FOR COMPUTATN

MATH 614: NUMERICAL METHODS I

MATH 671: ASYMPTOTIC METHODS I

MATH 676: ADV ORDINARY DIFFE EQ

MATH 707: ST: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

MATH 722: WAVE PROPAGATION

MATH 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

Research Interests
Wave equations, dynamical systems, invariant manifolds, numerical computation
Journal Article
Roy H. Goodman, Grace Conte, Jeremy L. Marzuola. 2025. "QGLAB: A MATLAB Package for Computations on Quantum Graphs." SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing , vol. 47 , no. 2 , pp. B428-B453.

Atul Anurag, Roy H. Goodman, Ellison K. O'Grady. 2024. "A new canonical reduction of three-vortex motion and its application to vortex-dipole scattering." Physics of Fluids , vol. 36 , pp. 067110.

Jimmie Adriazola, Roy H. Goodman. 2023. "Apodizer Design to Efficiently Couple Light into a Fiber Bragg Grating." SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics , vol. 83 , no. 3 , pp. 1126-1145.

Jimmie Adriazola, Roy H. Goodman, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis. 2023. "Efficient Manipulation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Double-Well Potential1." Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation , vol. 122 , pp. 107219 (14 pp.).

Roy H. Goodman, Brandon M. Behring. 2023. "Transition to instability of the leapfrogging vortex quartet." Mechanics Research Communications , vol. 128 , pp. 104068.

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Magazine/Trade Publication
"Four Decades of Kink Interactions in Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Models: A Crucial Typo, Recent Developments and the Challenges Ahead"
DSWeb, a website of the SIAM Activity Group in Dynamical Systems, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2019.

"Markdown: A Writing Tool for Every Applied Mathematician's Toolbox"
SIAM News, May, 2019.

Book
Roy H. Goodman. "Mathematical Analysis of Fractal Kink-Antikink Collisions in the phi-4 Model." 15 pp. Springer-Verlag, 2019.

Book Review
"Review of "Methods of Mathematical Modeling" by Witelski and Bowen"
SIAM Review, May, 2017.