Sara Billey

Professor of Mathematics

Sara Billey Professor of Mathematics and John Rainwater Faculty Fellow, University of Washington. Received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 supported by the National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship, 1990-1994. She held an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship and UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, before joining the Department of Applied Mathematics at MIT in 1998. While at MIT, she received the NSF CAREER Award, 2000-2006 and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers under the Clinton administration. She joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2003. She is an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society and received the Bergstrom Award for Art and Science 2018 with collaborator Timea Tihanyi. Her research interests include algebraic combinatorics, Lie theory, computational algebraic geometry, probability, experimental mathematics, complexity theory, fingerprint databases, discrete geometry and mathematical machine learning algorithms.

Sara Billey
Scientific, Seminar
Discrete Math Seminar: Sara Billey
September 16, 2014
University of British Columbia
We propose an analog of the Little map for reduced expressions for signed permutations. We show that this map respects the transition equations derived from Chevellay's formula on Schubert classes. We discuss many nice properties of the signed Little...
Scientific, Seminar
University of Washington Colloquium: Sara Billey
November 16, 2018
University of Washington
Standard Young tableaux are fundamental in combinatorics, representation theory, and geometry. In this talk, we will define these objects and discuss some of their remarkable properties. In particular, we will discuss the connection between the major...