Birgit Speh
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Lie groups |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Some Results on Principal Series of GL(n,R) (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bertram Kostant |
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Birgit Speh is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University.[1] She is known for her work in Lie groups, including Speh representations (also known as Speh's representations).[2]
Career
Speh received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.[3] She was the first female mathematician to be hired by Cornell University.[4]
Awards and honors
In 2012, Speh became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
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.
References
- ^ "Birgit E. Speh". Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
- ^ Sahi, Siddhartha, and Elias M. Stein. "Analysis in matrix space and Speh's representations." Inventiones mathematicae 101.1 (1990): 379-393.
- ^ Birgit Speh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Rossiter, Margaret W. (2012). Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World Since 1972. Women Scientists in America. Vol. 3. Johns Hopkins University Press (published February 21, 2012). p. 257. ISBN 978-1421403632.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society