V. Lakshmibai

Venkatramani Lakshmibai 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, including in particular the theory of flag varieties and Schubert varieties.
Lakshmibai earned her PhD in 1976 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
With Sara Billey she was the co-author of the monograph Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties.
She also co-authored two monographs with Justin Brown: Flag Varieties: An Interplay of Geometry, Combinatorics, and Representation Theory and The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects.
In 2012 she was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
Lakshmibai died on 2 December 2023, at the age of 78.