Professor Cristina Ballantine
Professor of Mathematics at the College of the Holy Cross,
Mathematics / Computer Science Department
Professor Cristina Ballantine is in the Mathematics / Computer Science Department at the College of the Holy Cross.
Her research interests involve
Number Theory, Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory, Buildings, Algebraic Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Visualization of Complex Functions. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1998 with a thesis on Hypergraphs and Automorphic Forms, advised by Professor James Arthur.
Professor Ballantine has a deep love for research. She says the biggest change in her career was when she stopped understating her accomplishments, papers, and research findings to her peers and others, and instead stated her work as it was. This change in attitude helped her be more self-confident and factored into a cycle that helped her achieve even more as a Professor and in her research.
“My love for research is what makes me happy.”
Professor Ballantine’s motivation for what she does.