BUDAPEST SEMESTERS - Key Persons
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- Professor of Mathematics, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Director of Student Services
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- Professor of Mathematics, Alumni Chair in Mathematics, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Bela Bajnok grew up in Hungary, a country with a long tradition of excellence in mathematics education. Bajnok received his Diploma at Eötvös University in Budapest and a Ph.D. in the United States at Ohio State University. He has spent most of his professional career at Gettysburg College.
Bajnok's main research interests are combinatorics and number theory, with occasional publications in various other fields as well. Bajnok is the author of two books: An Invitation to Abstract Mathematics, now in its second edition published by Springer, and Additive Combinatorics: A Menu of Research Problems, published by CRC Press. He is the Director of American Mathematics Competitions, a series of contests that starts with the participation of 300,000 students and ends with the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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- Professor of Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
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- Professor of Mathematics, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary
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- Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
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- Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, Fort Wayne, in / Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Professor of Mathematics, Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, CA
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- Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Professor of Mathematics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
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- Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Professor of Mathematics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Tara Holm studied at BSM in Spring 1996. She earned a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a PhD in mathematics from MIT. After an NSF Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley and a year at the University of Connecticut, Holm has spent her career at Cornell. She has been Simons Fellow and a von Neuman Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Oliver Smithies Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. Holm's leadership in mathematics and mathematics education is prominent on the national stage, as she has chaired the AMS Committee on Education, is a member of the Board of Governors for Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics, and is currently the President/CEO of Pro Mathematica Arte.
Holm is an expert in symplectic geometry, the mathematical framework for classical and quantum mechanics. This field has blossomed since the 1980s. Broadly speaking, there are two tools in every symplectic geometer's toolbox: the momentum map and holomorphic curves. Holm uses these tools to build bridges between symplectic geometry and other fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. She works to identify and quantify the essential features of a symplectic structure and of the symmetries that preserve such a structure.