Jennifer Hom

{{Short description|American mathematician}}

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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.{{r|cv}} 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.{{r|cv|mg}}

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.{{r|cv}}

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".{{r|fams}} In 2024 she was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7242 Levi L. Conant Prize 2024]

References

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