Birgit Speh

Birgit Speh
Citizenship United States
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Cornell University
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Some Results on Principal Series of GL(n,R) (1977)
Doctoral advisor Bertram Kostant
Doctoral students
  • Stephen Bullock
  • Maria Fung
  • Jonathan Needleman
  • Shayan Sen
Known for Lie groups
Notable awards

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

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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