Monica Nevins
Monica Nevins
Full Professor

PhD (MIT)

Room
STM 641
Phone
(613) 562-5800 ext. 3529

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Biography

Dr. Nevins’ research is in algebra. Her particular interests include the structure and representation theory of algebraic groups over the p-adic numbers. She also explores applications to cryptography, particularly in the post-quantum context.

Current Students and Postdocs

  • Serine Bairakji (PhD)
  • Caroline Scassa (MSc)
  • Yafei Zhu (MSc)

Research Groups

  • Algebra,
  • Lie Theory,
  • Quantum Security via Algebras and Representation Theory (QUaSAR)

Selected publications

  • Monica Nevins and Susanne Pumplün, "A parametrization of nonassociative cyclic algebras of prime degree," Journal of Algebra, Volume 664, Part A, pages 631--654, February 2025.
  • Mengyuan Cao, Monica Nevins,and Hadi Salmasian, "The refined solution to the Capelli eigenvalue problem for gl(m|n)⊕gl(m|n) and gl(m|2n)," Indagationes Mathematicae, Vol 36, Issue 1, pages 218-244, January 2025.
  • Monica Nevins, "The local character expansion as branching rules: nilpotent cones and the case of SL(2),", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 329 (2024), No. 2, 259--301.
  • Laura Maddison and Monica Nevins, "A Classically Efficient Forgery of MPPK/DS Signatures," La Matematica 3, 573–587 (2024).

Research interests

  • Representation theory
  • P-adic numbers
  • Nilpotent coadjoint orbits
  • Algebraic groups
  • Cryptography