Vera Serganova facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Vera Vladimirovna Serganova
Вера Владимировна Серганова
Serganova in 2011
Born	1961
Nationality	Russian-American
Education	Moscow State University
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Known for	Coxeter matroids
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Dimitry Leites and Arkady Lvovich Onishchik

Vera Vladimirovna Serganova (Russian: Вера Владимировна Серганова) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who researches superalgebras and their representations.

Serganova graduated from 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. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2014. In 2017, she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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.