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Nancy Kahn Stanton
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry
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Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Notre Dame
Thesis Holomorphic R-Torsion for Lie Groups (1973)
Doctoral advisor Isadore Singer

Nancy Kahn Stanton is a professor emeritus of mathematics at University of Notre Dame. She is known for her research in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry.

Career

Stanton received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 under Isadore Singer. Stanton now works at University of Notre Dame.

Awards and honors

In 1981, Stanton became a Sloan Research Fellow.

In 2012, Stanton became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

  • Stanton, Nancy K. Infinitesimal CR automorphisms of real hypersurfaces. Amer. J. Math. 118 (1996), no. 1, 209–233.
  • Beals, Richard; Greiner, Peter C.; Stanton, Nancy K. The heat equation on a CR manifold. J. Differential Geom. 20 (1984), no. 2, 343–387.
  • Stanton, Nancy K. Infinitesimal CR automorphisms of rigid hypersurfaces. Amer. J. Math. 117 (1995), no. 1, 141–167.
  • Pinsky, Mark A.; Stanton, Nancy K.; Trapa, Peter E. Fourier series of radial functions in several variables. J. Funct. Analysis 116 (1993), no. 1, 111–132.
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