Vera Vladimirovna Serganova (russian: Вера Владимировна Серганова) is a professor of mathematics at the
University of California, Berkeley
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who researches
superalgebras and their
representations.
Serganova graduated from
Moscow State University. She defended her Ph.D. in 1988 at
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...
under the joint supervision of Dimitry Leites and
Arkady Onishchik. She was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in 1998 and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2014.
In 2017, she was elected a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
The
Gelfand–Serganova theorem gives a geometric characterization of
Coxeter matroids; it was published by Serganova and
Israel Gelfand in 1987 as part of their research originating the concept of a Coxeter matroid.
[. See in particular Section 3.1, "The Gelfand–Serganova Theorem"]
p. 97
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1961 births
Living people
Russian mathematicians
Russian women mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women