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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