Sara Billey

Sara Cosette Billey (born February 6, 1968 in Alva, Oklahoma, United States) is an American mathematician working in algebraic combinatorics. She is known for her contributions on Schubert polynomials, singular loci of Schubert varieties, Kostant polynomials, and Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials[1] often using computer verified proofs. She is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington.[2]

Sara Billey
Born (1968-02-06) February 6, 1968
Alva, Oklahoma
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Doctoral advisorAdriano Garsia
Mark Haiman

Billey did her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1990.[2] She earned her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1994 from the University of California, San Diego, under the joint supervision of Adriano Garsia and Mark Haiman.[3] She returned to MIT as a postdoctoral researcher with Richard P. Stanley, and continued there as an assistant and associate professor until 2003, when she moved to the University of Washington.[2]

In 2012, she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

Publications

Selected books
  • Sara, Billey; Lakshmibai, V. (2000). Singular loci of Schubert varieties. Boston: Birkhäuser. ISBN 9780817640927. OCLC 44750779.[5]

Selected articles

References
  1. "Billey, Sara C." MathSciNet. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  2. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). September 26, 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  3. Sara Billey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
  5. Review of Singular loci of Schubert varieties by Michel Brion (2001), MR1782635
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