Lisa Mantini is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

Education

Mantini earned a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

from the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

, and a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...

and PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. All these degrees were in mathematics.

Teaching

Mantini taught at

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

prior to 1985. In 1985, she began to teach at

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University (informally Oklahoma State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. The university was established in 1890 under the legislation of the Morrill Act. Originally known ...

. Among other awards (see below), in 1995 she received a Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, the highest teaching honor bestowed by the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary edu ...

. In 1998, she gave the undergraduate lecture course, "Representations of Finite Symmetry Groups", for the Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mathematical Association of America Governor

Mantini served the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the

as Governor from 2002 to 2005 and from 2014 to 2017. This made her the first person to serve the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the Mathematical Association of America as Governor for two terms.

Notable publications

* An Integral Transform in L2-Cohomology for the Ladder Representations of U(p,q), J. Fun. Anal. 60, 211-242 (1985) * An L2-Cohomology Construction of Negative Spin Mass Zero Equations for U(p,q), J. Math. Anal. Appl. 136, 419-449 (1988) * An L2-Cohomology Construction of Unitary Highest Weight Modules for U(p,q), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 323, 583-602 (1991) * Inversion of an Integral Transform and Ladder Representations of U(1, q), in ''Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis'', Contemp. Math. 191, AMS, Providence, 1995, pp. 117–138 (with J. Lorch) * To Challenge with Compassion: Goals for Mathematics Education, MAA FOCUS 15, Number 5 (October 1995), pp. 10–11 * Power Series and Inversion of an Integral Transform,

Pi Mu Epsilon Journal Pi Mu Epsilon ( or PME) is the U.S. honorary national mathematics society. The society currently has chapters at 371 institutions across the U.S. History Pi Mu Epsilon was founded at Syracuse University on , by Professor Edward Drake Roe, Jr. Pi ...

10, 560-574 (1997) (with M. Oehrtman) * Friedberg, Solomon. (2001). ''Teaching Mathematics in Colleges and Universities: Case Studies for Today's Classroom''. (Contributing author). United States:

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Intertwining Ladder Representations for SU(p,q) into Dolbeault Cohomology
in ''Non-Commutative Harmonic Analysis'', Progr. Math. 220, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2004, pp. 395–418 (with J. Lorch and J. Novak)

Notable recognition

* 1994: Received the

AAUW The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. The organization has a nationwide network of 170,00 ...

’s Founder’s Postdoctoral Fellowship * 1994: Was declared one of the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the

's "Distinguished College/University Teachers of Mathematics" (one was chosen each year) * 1995: Received a Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, the highest teaching honor bestowed by the

* 2020: Received a Certificate of Meritorious Service from the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mantini, Lisa Living people American mathematicians American women mathematicians Harvard University alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Wellesley College faculty Oklahoma State University faculty