Biography:V. Lakshmibai
Venkatramani Lakshmibai (1944 – 2 December 2023) was an Indian mathematician who was a professor emerita of mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research concerned algebraic geometry, the theory of algebraic groups, and representation theory,[1] including in particular the theory of flag varieties and Schubert varieties.
Lakshmibai was born in 1944 in a small town in southern India.[2] She earned her PhD in 1976 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research[1] under the direction of C. S. Seshadri.[3] She left India to teach in Europe and then in the United States, where she was a professor at Northeastern University from 1987 to 2019.[2] With Sara Billey she was the co-author of the monograph Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties (Progress in Mathematics 182, Birkhäuser, 2000).[4] She also co-authored two monographs with Justin Brown: Flag Varieties: An Interplay of Geometry, Combinatorics, and Representation Theory (Texts and Readings in Mathematics 53, Hindustan Book Agency, 2009)[5] and The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects (Developments in Mathematics 42, Springer, 2015).[6]
In 2012 she was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
Lakshmibai died on 2 December 2023, at the age of 78.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Venkatraman Lakshmibai", Faculty profiles (Northeastern University), http://www.northeastern.edu/cos/faculty/venkatraman-lakshmibai/, retrieved 2017-08-18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Honoring a professor, honoring his mom". Northeastern University. https://experiencepoweredby.northeastern.edu/honoring-a-professor-remembering-his-mom/.
- ↑ Venkatramani Lakshmibai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Review of Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties by Michel Brion (fr) (2001), MR1782635
- ↑ Review of Flag Varieties: An Interplay of Geometry, Combinatorics, and Representation Theory by Christian Ohn (2010), MR2474907
- ↑ Review of The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects by Li Li, MR3408060
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list, retrieved 2017-08-18
- ↑ "Mathematician and Professor Emeritus Venkatramani Lakshmibai Passes Away at 78", India New England News, December 6, 2023, https://indianewengland.com/mathematician-and-professor-emeritus-venkatramani-lakshmibai-passes-away-at-78/, retrieved 2023-12-06
External links
- "Venkatraman Lakshmibai – Emeritus". College of Science at Northeastern University. https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/venkatraman-lakshmibai/.
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