Birgit Speh
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| 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 |
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| Known for | Lie groups |
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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).
Speh received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. She was the first female mathematician to be hired by Cornell University.
In 2012, Speh became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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