Birgit Speh

American mathematician

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Scientific careerFieldsMathematicsInstitutionsCornell UniversityThesis Some 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

^ 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.