Harry Tamvakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1969. He attended primary school (grades K-6) in
Chicago (United States), and secondary school (grades 7-12) in Athens (Greece). Tamvakis obtained his
Bachelor Degree (Ptychion) in Mathematics from the University of Athens in 1990, and a Diploma in Piano
from the Peiramatiko Odeion of Athens in the same year. He received a Masters (S.M.) and a Ph.D. Degree
in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1997, respectively. Tamvakis was a Lecturer
in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1997–2001, and an Assistant Professor at Brandeis
University from 2001–2006. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland from 2006–2010
and is a Professor of Mathematics at Maryland from 2010 to the present.
Tamvakis has held visiting positions at the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge, 1998), the Mathematisches
Institut at the University of Cologne (1999), the Institut des Hautes ´Etudes Scientifiques
(Bures-sur-Yvette, 2000-01), the Max Planck Institut f¨ur Mathematik (Bonn, 2001), the Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Research in Pairs Program, 2002), the University of Essen (2003), the Korea
Institute for Advanced Study (Seoul, 2006), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley,
2009), and the Hausdorff Institute (Bonn, 2011).
Harry Tamvakis’ research lies in algebraic geometry and intersection theory, with a focus on the homogeneous
spaces of Lie groups and Schubert calculus. He has studied problems in Arakelov theory, quantum
cohomology, and the theory of degeneracy loci of vector bundles. The work connects many different areas
of mathematics, such as number theory, complex differential geometry, representation theory, and algebraic
combinatorics.
Selected publications:

1. Schubert calculus on the arithmetic Grassmannian, Duke Math. J. 98 (1999), 421–443;
2. Quantum cohomology of the Lagrangian Grassmannian (with A. Kresch),
   J. Algebraic Geometry 12 (2003), 777–810;
3. Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians (with A. Buch and A. Kresch),
   J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), 901–915;
4. Quantum Pieri rules for isotropic Grassmannians (with A. Buch and A. Kresch),
   Inventiones math. 178 (2009), 345–405;
5. Giambelli, Pieri, and tableau formulas via raising operators,
   J. reine angew. Math. 652 (2011), 207–244;
6. A Giambelli formula for classical G/P spaces, J. Algebraic Geometry 23 (2014), 245–278;
7. Theta and eta polynomials in geometry, Lie theory, and combinatorics,
   ‘First Congress of Greek Mathematicians’, 243–284, De Gruyter Proc. Math., 2020.
   Selected invited addresses:
8. Newton Institute Conference on Arakelov Theory, Cambridge, 1998;
9. Mathematisches Arbeitstagung, Max Planck Institute, Bonn, 2001;
10. American Mathematical Society Summer Research Institute in Algebraic Geometry, Seattle, 2005;
11. IMPANGA 15 Algebraic Geometry Conference, Bedlewo, 2015;
12. First Congress of Greek Mathematicians, Athens, 2018.
    Selected Awards:
    First Prize, Hellenic National Mathematical Olympiad, 1987
    First Prizes, Balkan Mathematical Olympiads, Bucharest 1986 and Athens 1987
    Third Prizes, International Mathematical Olympiads, Warsaw 1986 and Havana 1987
    National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1998–2001.