Tara S. Holm

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 American Mathematical Society Council member at large, and from 2013-2016 she was a member of the American Mathematical Society Executive Committee.

Personal life Holm is married to Timothy Riley, also a mathematics professor at Cornell. Through her marriage, she is a member of the Cobbold family.

Selected publications