Associate Professor Nora Ganter serves in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, where she conducts research in pure mathematics. She earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ganter's academic interests encompass elliptic cohomology and its role in representation theory, a program developed jointly with Arun Ram that integrates prior contributions from researchers including M. Ando, I. Rosu, I. Grojnowski, E. Looijenga, and Ginzburg-Kapranov-Vasserot. Her work also covers categorified character theory, categorification, homotopical representation theory, and monstrous moonshine, including explorations of the refined Monster and baby monsters.

Ganter has authored key publications such as 'Codes, vertex operators and topological modular forms' (2022, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society), 'Categorical Tori' (2018, SIGMA), 'Symmetric and exterior powers of categories' (2014), 'The elliptic Weyl character formula' (Compositio Mathematica), and 'Representation and character theory of finite categorical groups' with Robert Usher (2016). Recent preprints include 'Looking for a Refined Monster' (2024). She has supervised graduate students on theses addressing obstruction theories for categorical group extensions, twisted equivariant Tate K-theory, comparison theorems for torus-equivariant elliptic cohomology theories, homotopy theory of 2-groups, product structures of Bott-Samelson classes, and representation theory of finite 2-groups. Ganter holds editorial responsibilities as an associate editor for the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Her research receives support from Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, including DP210103081 with Paul Zinn-Justin, Gufang Zhao, and Yaping Yang on elliptic Schubert calculus; DP160104912 with Matthew Ando; and DP1095815. She coordinates courses such as Accelerated Mathematics 1, linear algebra, and graduate studies in cohomology operations and applications, and delivers talks on topics including Grothendieck duality and elliptic representation theory.

Professional Email: nganter@unimelb.edu.au