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Tara S. Holm
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forAbstract algebra
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCornell University
Thesis Equivariant Cohomology, Homogeneous Spaces and Graphs  (2002)
Doctoral advisorVictor William Guillemin

Tara Suzanne Holm is a mathematician at Cornell University specializing in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.[1]

Life and career

Holm graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.[2] Holm received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 under the supervision of Victor Guillemin.[3] She went on to a three-year postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, before eventually joining the faculty at Cornell.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Holm became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

In 2013, Holm was awarded a Simons Fellowship.[5]

In 2019, Holm was awarded the Sze/Hernandez Teaching prize at Cornell.[6]

In 2019, Holm was the AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer at MAA MathFest.[7]

Selected publications

  • Harada, Megumi; Henriques, André; Holm, Tara S. Computation of generalized equivariant cohomologies of Kac-Moody flag varieties. Adv. Math. 197 (2005), no. 1, 198–221.
  • Guillemin, V.; Holm, T.; Zara, C. A GKM description of the equivariant cohomology ring of a homogeneous space. J. Algebraic Combin. 23 (2006), no. 1, 21–41.
  • Hausmann, Jean-Claude; Holm, Tara; Puppe, Volker Conjugation spaces. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 5 (2005), 923–964. (Reviewer: R. E. Stong)
  • Biss, Daniel; Guillemin, Victor W.; Holm, Tara S. The mod 2 cohomology of fixed point sets of anti-symplectic involutions. Adv. Math. 185 (2004), no. 2, 370–399.

References

  1. ^ "Home page of Tara S. Holm". Cornell University. Retrieved Feb 2, 2015.
  2. ^ "Tara Holm, Timothy Riley". New York Times. Oct 31, 2008. Retrieved Feb 2, 2015.
  3. ^ Tara Suzanne Holm at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  5. ^ "2013 Simons Fellows Awardees: Mathematics". Simons Foundation. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved Feb 2, 2015.
  6. ^ "Sze/Hernandez Teaching Prize | Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Cornell Arts & Sciences". as.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  7. ^ "AWM at MAA MathFest 2019". awm-math.org. Retrieved 2020-01-17.