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Birgit Speh

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Citizenship
  
United States

Fields
  
Mathematics

Institutions
  
Cornell University

Institution
  
Cornell University

Known for
  
Lie groups

Doctoral advisor
  
Bertram Kostant

Name
  
Birgit Speh


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Thesis
  
Some Results on Principal Series of GL(n,R) (1977)

Doctoral students
  
Stephen Bullock Maria Fung Jonathan Needleman Shayan Sen

Notable awards
  
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Birgit Speh is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University. She is known for her work in Lie groups, including Speh representations (also known as Speh's representations).

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Career

Speh received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. She was the first female mathematician to be hired by Cornell University.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Speh became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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.

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