Biography:Birgit Speh

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Short description: American mathematician
Birgit Speh
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Born1949 (1949)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forLie groups
Awards
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisSome Results on Principal Series of GL(n,R) (1977)
Doctoral advisorBertram Kostant

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]

Career

Speh 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

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.

References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. "Birgit Speh". Cornell University Department of Mathematics. https://math.cornell.edu/birgit-speh. 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. "Women on the Mathematics Faculty at Cornell | Department of Mathematics Cornell Arts & Sciences". https://math.cornell.edu/math-women. 
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  7. "2020 Lecturer: Birgit Späh". Association for Women in Mathematics. https://awm-math.org/awards/noether-lectures/noether-lectures-2020/. Retrieved 14 October 2019.