Tara S. Holm

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

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

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]

From 2011-2013, Holm was an American Mathematical Society Council member at large.^[8]

Selected publications

• Harada, Megumi; Henriques, André; Holm, Tara S. (2005). "Computation of generalized equivariant cohomologies of Kac-Moody flag varieties". Advances in Mathematics. 197 (1): 198–221. arXiv:math/0409305. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2004.10.003.
• Guillemin, V.; Holm, T.; Zara, C. (2006). "A GKM description of the equivariant cohomology ring of a homogeneous space". Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics. 23 (1): 21–41. arXiv:math/0112184. doi:10.1007/s10801-006-6027-4.
• Hausmann, Jean-Claude; Holm, Tara S.; Puppe, Volker (2005). "Conjugation spaces". Algebraic & Geometric Topology. 5: 923–964. arXiv:math/0412057. doi:10.2140/agt.2005.5.923.
• Biss, Daniel; Guillemin, Victor W.; Holm, Tara S. (2004). "The mod 2 cohomology of fixed point sets of anti-symplectic involutions". Advances in Mathematics. 185 (2): 370–399. doi:10.1016/j.aim.2003.07.007.