Birgit Speh (born 1949) is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at

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. She is known for her work in

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, including Speh representations (also known as Speh's representations).

Career

Speh received her Ph.D. from

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in 1977. She was the first female mathematician to be given tenure by

, and the first to receive the title of Professor.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Speh became a fellow of the

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/ref> She was selected to give the 2020 AWM-AMS Emmy

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at the 2020

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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

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