Birgit Speh

Birgit Speh (born 1949)[1] is Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University.[2] She is known for her work in Lie groups, including Speh representations (also known as Speh's representations).[3]

Birgit Speh
Born1949 (1949)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forLie groups
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisSome Results on Principal Series of GL(n,R) (1977)
Doctoral advisorBertram Kostant

Career

Speh received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.[4] She was the first female mathematician to be hired by Cornell University.[5]

Awards and honors

In 2012, Speh became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6] She was selected to give the 2020 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecture at the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings.[7]

Selected publications
  • Speh, Birgit; Vogan, David A. Jr. Reducibility of generalized principal series representations. Acta Math. 145 (1980)
  • Speh, Birgit. Unitary representations of Gl(n,R) with nontrivial (g,K)-cohomology. Invent. Math. 71 (1983), no. 3, 443–465.
  • Speh, Birgit. The unitary dual of Gl(3,R) and Gl(4,R). Math. Ann. 258 (1981/82), no. 2, 113–133.
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References
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. "Birgit Speh". Cornell University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  3. Sahi, Siddhartha, and Elias M. Stein. "Analysis in matrix space and Speh's representations." Inventiones mathematicae 101.1 (1990): 379-393.
  4. Birgit Speh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Rossiter, Margaret W. (2012). Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972. Women Scientists in America. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press (published February 21, 2012). p. 257. ISBN 978-1421403632.
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  7. "2020 Lecturer: Birgit Späh". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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