Monica A. Nevins (born 1973) is a Canadian mathematician, and a professor of mathematics and statistics at the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...

. Her research interests include

abstract algebra In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures. Algebraic structures include groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, lattices, and algebras over a field. The term ''a ...

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...

algebraic group In mathematics, an algebraic group is an algebraic variety endowed with a group structure which is compatible with its structure as an algebraic variety. Thus the study of algebraic groups belongs both to algebraic geometry and group theory. Man ...

s, and mathematical

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

Education and career

Nevins went to high school in

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, Quebec. She graduated from the

in 1994, and completed a PhD in mathematics at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1998. Her dissertation, ''Admissible Nilpotent Coadjoint Orbits of p-adic Reductive Lie Groups'', was supervised by

David Vogan David Alexander Vogan, Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups. While studying at the University of Chicago, he became a Putnam Fellow ...

. After postdoctoral research at the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

, Nevins joined the faculty of the University of Ottawa, where she was promoted to full professor in 2014.

Recognition

Nevins was the 2010–2011 winner of the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was elected as a fellow of the

Canadian Mathematical Society The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (french: Société mathématique du Canada) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. It serves the ...

in 2019.

Personal

Her husband, Ralph Nevins, is a computer scientist and mathematical artist.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nevins, Monica 1973 births Living people Canadian women mathematicians University of Ottawa alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Academic staff of the University of Ottawa Fellows of the Canadian Mathematical Society