Vera Serganova

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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| name = Vera Vladimirovna Serganova

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| native_name = Вера Владимировна Серганова

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| birth_date = 1961

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| known_for = Coxeter matroids

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| education = Moscow State University

| alma_mater = Saint Petersburg State University

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| doctoral_advisor = Dimitry Leites and
Arkady Lvovich Onishchik

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| discipline = Mathematics

| sub_discipline = Superalgebra

| workplaces = University of California, Berkeley

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Vera Vladimirovna Serganova ({{langx|ru|Вера Владимировна Серганова}}) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who researches superalgebras and their representations.{{citation|url=https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/vera-serganova|title=Faculty profile: Vera Serganova|publisher=University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics Department|access-date=2015-10-01}}.

Serganova graduated from Moscow State School 57{{Cite web |title=Выпускники математической школы No 57 |url=http://www.lib.ru/TXT/school57.txt |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=www.lib.ru}} and Moscow State University. She defended her Ph.D. in 1988 at Saint Petersburg State University under the joint supervision of Dimitry Leites and Arkady Onishchik.{{mathgenealogy|id=32839}} She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998{{cite book|author=Serganova, Vera|chapter=Characters of irreducible representations of simple Lie superalgebras|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II|year=1998|pages=583–593|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011695000}} and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2014.{{citation|url=https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=Serganova|title=ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897|publisher=International Mathematical Union|access-date=2015-10-01}}.

In 2017, she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/ChapterS.pdf|title=Book of Members 1780–present, Chapter S.|author=|website=|date=|publisher=}}

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.{{citation|title=Coxeter Matroids|volume=216|series=Progress in Mathematics|first1=Alexandre V.|last1=Borovik|first2=I. M.|last2=Gelfand|author2-link=Israel Gelfand|first3=Neil|last3=White|publisher=Birkhäuser|year=2003|doi=10.1007/978-1-4612-2066-4|isbn=978-1-4612-7400-1|contribution=6.3 The Gelfand–Serganova Theorem|page=157|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icbcBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA157}}.{{citation

| last = Borovik | first = A. V.

| contribution = Matroids and Coxeter groups

| doi = 10.1007/978-1-4612-2066-4

| mr = 2011735

| pages = 79–114

| publisher = Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

| series = London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser.

| title = Surveys in combinatorics, 2003 (Bangor)

| volume = 307

| year = 2003| isbn = 978-1-4612-7400-1

}}. See in particular Section 3.1, "The Gelfand–Serganova Theorem", [https://books.google.com/books?id=0DZ3uzzXbH4C&pg=PA97 p. 97].