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Tara S. Holm
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Citizenship United States
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Abstract algebra
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Cornell University
Thesis Equivariant Cohomology, Homogeneous Spaces and Graphs (2002)
Doctoral advisor Victor William Guillemin

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

Life and career

Holm graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College. Holm received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 under the supervision of Victor Guillemin. 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.

In 2013, Holm was awarded a Simons Fellowship.

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

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

From 2011-2013, Holm was an AMS Council member at large.

Selected publications

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