Birgit Speh

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Birgit Speh
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Born1949 (1949)
CitizenshipUnited 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 (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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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

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References

  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. "Birgit Speh". Cornell University Department of Mathematics. 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".
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
  7. "2020 Lecturer: Birgit Späh". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 14 October 2019.