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Jennifer Hom

Jennifer Hom

American mathematician

Jennifer Cheung Hom is an American mathematician whose research concerns low-dimensional topology, including Heegaard Floer homology and link concordance. She is a professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech.

Education and career

Hom majored in applied physics at Columbia University, with a minor in applied physics, graduating magna cum laude in 2004.[1] She became a doctoral student of Paul Melvin at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a Ph.D. in 2011 with the dissertation Heegaard Floer invariants and cabling.[1][2]

She returned to Columbia University as Ritt Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2015, when she moved to Georgia Tech. She was tenured there as an associate professor in 2018.[1]

Recognition

Hom was named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to low-dimensional topology, Heegaard Floer homology, and service to the mathematical community".[3] In 2024 she was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2022-11-11
  2. [2]
    Jennifer Hom at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. [3]
    2023 Class of Fellows, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2022-11-09
  4. [4]
    Levi L. Conant Prize 2024
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