Professor
Contact Information
PDL C-445
Office Hours
General Office Hour Open to All: Wednesdays 3:30-4:00pm Fall and Spring Quarter. Class specific office hours will be posted in Canvas.
Biography
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1994
SB, MIT, 1990
My research is in algebraic combinatorics. Combinatorics is the study of counting and bijective proofs, so an algebraic combinatorialists counts algebraic objects. In particular, I am interested in Schubert polynomials, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds, Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, Stanley symmetric functions, Bruhat order, Weyl group and root systems of all types etc. I am a strong advocate of using computers to do math research, in particular for obtaining data for conjectures and computer verified proofs. Recently, I have been interested in problems which are not decidable by any possible algorithm in finite time.
Awards and Honors
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (2000)
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
News & Events
Related News
- Sara Billey is co-recipient of A&S Bergstrom Award (April 26, 2018)
- Sara Billey featured in 2013 AWM Grand Prize Winning Essay (April 1, 2013)
- AMS Fellows Named (November 1, 2012)
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