Monica A. Nevins (born 1973)[1] is a Canadian mathematician, and a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include abstract algebra, representation theory, algebraic groups, and mathematical cryptography.
Nevins went to high school in Val-d'Or, Quebec. She graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1994, and completed a PhD in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.[2] Her dissertation, Admissible Nilpotent Coadjoint Orbits of p-adic Reductive Lie Groups, was supervised by David Vogan.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Alberta, Nevins joined the faculty of the University of Ottawa, where she was promoted to full professor in 2014.[2]
Nevins was the 2010–2011 winner of the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Teaching.[4] She was elected as a fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2019.[5]
Her husband, Ralph Nevins, is a computer scientist and mathematical artist.[6]