Vera Serganova

Vera Vladimirovna Serganova (Russian: Вера Владимировна Серганова) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley whose research concerns superalgebras and their representations.^[1]

Serganova earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from Saint Petersburg State University under the joint supervision of Dimitry Leites and Arkady L'vovich Onishchik.^[2] She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2014.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

References

1. Faculty profile: Vera Serganova, University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics Department, retrieved 2015-10-01.
2. Vera Serganova at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2015-10-01.
4. Borovik, Alexandre V.; Gelfand, I. M.; White, Neil (2003), "6.3 The Gelfand–Serganova Theorem", Coxeter Matroids, Progress in Mathematics 216, Birkhäuser, p. 157, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-2066-4, ISBN 978-1-4612-7400-1.
5. Borovik, A. V. (2003), "Matroids and Coxeter groups", Surveys in combinatorics, 2003 (Bangor), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser. 307, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 79–114, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-2066-4, MR 2011735. See in particular Section 3.1, "The Gelfand–Serganova Theorem", p. 97.