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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Sara Billey

Fields
  
Mathematics


Born
  
February 6, 1968 (age 56) Alva, Oklahoma (
1968-02-06
)

Institutions
  
University of Washington

Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego

Books
  
Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties

Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, San Diego

Doctoral advisor
  
Adriano Garsia, Mark Haiman

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, Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials often using computer verified proofs. She is currently a member of the faculty at the University of Washington.

Contents

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected books

  • S. Billey and V. Lakshmibai. Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties, Progress in Mathematics, no. 182, Birkhäuser, 2000.

    • Selected articles

  • with Mark Haiman: "Schubert polynomials for the classical groups". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (2): 443–448. 1995. MR 1290232. doi:10.1090/s0894-0347-1995-1290232-1. 
  • with Gregory S. Warrington: "Maximal singular loci for Schubert varieties in SL(n)/B ". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (10): 3915–3945. 2003. MR 1990570. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-03-03019-8. 

    • References

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