Birgit Speh

Birgit Speh
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Lie groups
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Cornell University
Thesis Some Results on Principal Series of GL(n,R) (1977)
Doctoral advisor Bertram Kostant

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

  1. ↑ "Birgit E. Speh". Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sahi, Siddhartha, and Elias M. Stein. "Analysis in matrix space and Speh's representations." Inventiones mathematicae 101.1 (1990): 379-393.
  3. ↑ Birgit Speh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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