Susan Tolman is an American mathematician known for her work in
symplectic geometry
Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed differential form, closed, nondegenerate form, nondegenerate different ...
. She is a professor of mathematics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at Illinois.
Tolman earned her Ph.D. in 1993 at
Harvard University. Her dissertation, ''Group Actions And Cohomology'', was supervised by
Raoul Bott. She was awarded a
Sloan Research Fellowship in 1998, and was named Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar in 2008–2009.
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