Notices of the American Mathematical Society December 2017 FEATURED

1254684 1275 26 1285 Ad Honorem Charles An Old Problem Resurfaces Marcel Berger Remembered Fefferman Nonlocally: Gamow's Liquid by Claude LeBrun, Gérard Besson, Misha Gromov, Jim Simons, Jeff Cheeger, Jean- by Antonio CÓrdoba, Elias Stein, Drops Inspire Today's Pierre Bourguignon, Dennis Sullivan, Terence Tao, Louis Nirenberg, Joseph Research and Applications Jacques Lafontaine, Jerry Kazdan, Marie- J. Kohn, Sun-Yung Alice Chang, C. Louise Michelsohn, Pierre Pansu, Robin Graham, Diego CÓrdoba, Bo'az by Rustum Choksi, Cyrill B. Muratov, David Ebin, and Karsten Grove Klartag, JÜrg FrÖhlich, Luis Seco, and and Ihsan Topaloglu Michael Weinstein

We close out 2017 with a celebration of Wolf Prize recipient Charles Fefferman and memories of geometer Marcel Berger. Gamow's liquid model for the atomic nucleus returns in recent research and applications. If hiring, you don't want to miss “Reducing Bias in Faculty Searches.” David Peifer provides the story of Dorothea Rockburne's encounter with Max Dehn at the legendary Black Mountain College. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief

GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION COMMENTARY, CONT'D.

1297 Ciprian Manolescu Interview 1322 Book Review: e Real and the Complex Alexander Diaz-Lopez Judith V. Grabiner

1300 WHAT IS... a Scheme? Tom Gannon ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

1302 AMS Graduate Student Blog 1304 Reducing Bias in Faculty Searches Elizabeth A. Burroughs

1313 Dorothea Rockburne and Max Dehn at Black COMMENTARY Mountain College David Peifer 1308 Opinion: Four Goals for Instructors Using Inquiry-Based Learning 1319 Autobiography of Wentsun Wu (1919–2017) Chris Rasmussen, Karen Marrongelle, Oh Nam Kwon, and Angie Hodge 1366 2017 Notices Index

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