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]
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| Born | 1949 |
| 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 |
Career
editSpeh received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.[4] She was the first female mathematician to be given tenure by Cornell University, and the first to receive the title of Professor.[5]
Awards and honors
editIn 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ^ "Birgit Speh". Cornell University Department of Mathematics. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Women on the Mathematics Faculty at Cornell | Department of Mathematics Cornell Arts & Sciences".
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- ^ "2020 Lecturer: Birgit Späh". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 14 October 2019.