Nancy Hingston

Nancy Burgess Hingston is a mathematician whose research applies algebraic topology and functional analysis to differential geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at The College of New Jersey.[1]

Hingston's father William Hingston was superintendent of the Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania; her mother was a high school mathematics and computer science teacher.[2] She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in mathematics and physics. After a year studying physics as a graduate student, she switched to mathematics,[1] and completed her Ph.D. in 1981 from Harvard University under the supervision of Raoul Bott.[3] Before joining TCNJ, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] She has also been a frequent visitor to the Institute for Advanced Study,[1] and has been involved with the Program for Women and Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study since its founding in 1994.[4]

Hingston was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[5][6]

Her husband, Jovi Tenev, is a lawyer.[2] She has three children.[6]

She is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for "contributions to differential geometry and the study of closed geodesics."[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Nancy Hingston", Women in Science: Profiles of Selected TCNJ Women Faculty and Alumni, School of Science, The College of New Jersey, retrieved 2015-10-25.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jovi Tenev Weds Nancy Hingston", Style, The New York Times, August 23, 1981.
  3. ↑ Nancy Hingston at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Plump, Wendy (May 29, 2012), "Mentoring young women is integral to institute's math program", Times of Trenton.
  5. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2015-10-01.
  6. 1 2 Patterson, Mary Jo (May 26, 2014), "On Stage in Seoul", TCJN News, The College of New Jersey, retrieved 2015-10-25.
  7. ↑ 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2016-11-06.
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