Venkatramani Lakshmibai (1944/1945 – 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 earned her PhD in 1976 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.[1] With Sara Billey she was the co-author of the monograph Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties (Progress in Mathematics 182, Birkhäuser, 2000).[2] 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)[3] and The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects (Developments in Mathematics 42, Springer, 2015).[4]

In 2012 she was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Lakshmibai died on 2 December 2023, at the age of 78.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Venkatraman Lakshmibai", Faculty profiles, Northeastern University, archived from the original on 2017-08-19, retrieved 2017-08-18
  2. ↑ Review of Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties by Michel Brion (2001), MR1782635
  3. ↑ Review of Flag Varieties: An Interplay of Geometry, Combinatorics, and Representation Theory by Christian Ohn (2010), MR2474907
  4. ↑ Review of The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects by Li Li, MR3408060
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-08-18
  6. ↑ "Mathematician and Professor Emeritus Venkatramani Lakshmibai Passes Away at 78", India New England News, December 6, 2023, retrieved 2023-12-06


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