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renamed to honor the late . It honors Guth Awarded exceptional contributions to the mathematical sciences by a midcareer mathematician. It carries a cash award of Mirzakhani Prize US$20,000. Larry Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been —From an NAS announcement awarded the newly named Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in “for developing surprising, origi- 2020 AWM Prizes Awarded nal, and deep connections between The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) pre- geometry, analysis, topology, and sented several awards at the Joint Mathematics Meetings , which have led to held in Denver, Colorado, in January 2020. the solution of, or major advances Erika Camacho of Arizona State Larry Guth on, many outstanding problems University was honored with the Lou- in these fields.” The citation reads: ise Hay Award for Contribution to “Guth has made spectacular contributions to many areas Mathematics Education “in recogni- of mathematics, including , analysis, and tion of her leadership and contribu- combinatorics. He has developed surprising, original, and tions as a mathematical scholar and deep connections between geometry, analysis, topology, educator.” The prize citation reads: and combinatorics, leading to major advances or solutions “Dr. Camacho has a passion for men- for many outstanding problems in these fields. His accom- toring, especially the mentoring of plishments include the introduction of a new cell decom- underrepresented students. Her men- Erika Camacho position of Euclidean space, writing the authoritative book toring begins with her excitement for on the polynomial method, and creating a new induction mathematics based in her research in on scales called the Bourgain-Guth method.” mathematical physiology. This research involves develop- Guth received his PhD from MIT in 2005 under the ing mathematical models that describe the interactions of supervision of . He held a postdoctoral photoreceptors in the retina. Dr. Camacho brings graduate position (2005–2006) and an assistant professorship and undergraduate students into her research and also finds (2006–2008) at . He was assistant opportunities for students with other researchers. professor (2008–2011) at the , a “She created the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer member of the Institute for Advanced Study (2010–2011), Institute and has codirected both this institute (2004–2007) and professor at the Courant Institute of New York Uni- and the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute versity before joining MIT in 2012. His honors and awards (2011–2013). Through these institutes and her other men- include an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006–2008), a toring programs she has impacted over 600 undergraduates, Sloan Fellowship (2010), the Salem Prize (2013), the MIT including supervising the research of 89 of these students, School of Science Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching with 30 receiving conference award recognitions. (2015), a Clay Research Prize (with Nets Katz, 2015), the “Through her work Dr. Camacho changes perceptions. New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2015), and the AMS Her own story is an existence proof that someone from an Bôcher Prize (2020). He was named a Simons Investigator underprivileged and Latina background can earn a PhD in 2014 and is a Fellow of the AMS and of the American in mathematics and be a successful mathematician. In Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of the book over sixty-five plenary and panel presentations, she uses Polynomial Methods in Combinatorics. her story to inspire students to persevere and succeed in The prize, awarded by the National Academy of Sciences mathematics. Beyond presenting, Dr. Camacho meets and formerly called the NAS Award in Mathematics, was

730 Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 67, Number 5 Mathematics People NEWS with attendees individually afterwards to learn about their stories and give them advice based on their own interests 2020 MAA Awards and passions. By inspiring more women and members of The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) awarded underrepresented groups to continue in their mathematical several prizes at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver, pursuits, she enlarges the scope of what we see as successful Colorado, in January 2020. mathematicians.” Camacho received her PhD in 2003 from Vladimir Pozdnyakov of the Uni- Cornell University under the direction of Richard H. Rand. versity of Connecticut and J. Michael Among her many recognitions are the SACNAS Distin- Steele of the University of Pennsyl- guished Undergraduate Institution Mentor Award (2012), vania were awarded the Chauvenet the Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education: Prize for their article “Buses, Bullies, Research/Teaching in Higher Education (Research Insti- and Bijections,” Mathematics Maga- tutions) (2018), the Presidential Award for Excellence in zine 89 (2016), no. 3. The prize cita- Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (2014), tion reads in part: “Pozdnyakov and and the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- Steele show the remarkable utility ence Mentor Award (2019). She tells the Notices: “I grew Vladimir Pozdnyakov of bijections by considering seating up in East Los Angeles, the fourth of five children, where I assignments on a bus. Everyone has was taught by Jaime Escalante (of Stand and Deliver fame). I a designated seat, but all except the enjoy spending time with my husband and three children.” last passenger take seats at random. Margaret Robinson of Mount Then the final passenger—a bit of a Holyoke College has been named bully—boards, not only wanting his the recipient of the 2020 M. Gweneth own seat, but demanding that each Humphreys Award for Mentorship subsequently displaced person finds of Undergraduate Women in Math- his correct seat as well. What is the ematics. According to the prize cita- probability that the first person to board will need to change seats? tion, “Margaret Robinson has been J. Michael Steele a mainstay of caring and thoughtful “The authors obtain the answer teaching and mentoring for many via a brute-force combinatorial argu- years at Mount Holyoke College, ment, but then find the solution in an easier, more reveal- Margaret Robinson an institution whose mission is to ing way by making elegant use of permutation cycles. The educate women. Her focus is not authors then use bijections to derive even more surprising and beautiful results including the mean and variance of just on the top students but on making a meaningful (and the number of cycles in a random permutation. This well- joyful) mathematical intervention for all the generations crafted paper, which introduces the reader to the theory of of learners that have crossed her path. As one student put permutation patterns, flows naturally and easily, providing it, ‘she saw me in a way that no mathematics teacher had a journey that is interesting and insightful. This bus is before.’ Her impactful involvement in the Carleton Summer available for all—professor and student alike—delighting Math Program and the resounding response from a range of the rider with the simple power of bijections.” former mentees speak to her effectiveness and her ability to Pozdnyakov received his PhD from the University of forge personal connections.” Robinson received her PhD in Pennsylvania in 2001 under the supervision of J. Michael 1986 from Johns Hopkins University under the supervision Steele. He is currently professor of and director of Jun-Ichi Igusa. Her honors include the Mount Holyoke of the Applied Financial Mathematics graduate program at Faculty Teaching Award (2010), the NES/MAA Award for Connecticut. He tells the Notices: “I’m an enthusiastic soccer Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics (2012), and the player—an old one.” J. Michael Steele received his PhD MAA Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching of Math- from Stanford University in 1975 under Kai Lai Chung. ematics (2013). Robinson tells the Notices: “My favorite He is currently professor emeritus at the University of quote (that I tell my students and children) comes from Pennsylvania. Steele and Pozdnyakov were jointly awarded The Once and Future King by T. H. White: ‘“The best thing the MAA’s Carl Allendorfer Award in 2017. Steele tells the for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, Notices: “I’m now retired from teaching, but I am still in- “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. volved in writing. I am also passionate about languages … Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of and language learning. French is in focus for the moment, things there are to learn.”’” and most recently it absorbs four or more hours of my day.” Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey of SENS Research Foundation —From AWM announcements and AgeX Therapeutics has been awarded the 2020 David P.

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Robbins Prize for his article “The Chromatic Number of the across the United States, as well as in Panama, South Korea, Plane Is at Least 5,” Geombinatorics 28 (2018), no. 1, which Japan, and Holland.” addresses the question, What is the minimum number of The 2020 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards colors needed to color the points of a Euclidean plane so for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Math- that no two points at distance exactly 1 have the same color? ematics were awarded to Federico Ardila of San Francisco This is “often known as the Hadwiger–Nelson problem; State University, Mark Tomforde of the University of Hadwiger, several years earlier and for other reasons, had Houston, and Suzanne L. Weekes of Worcester Polytechnic been the first to discuss the simplest coloring of the plane Institute. that demonstrates the upper bound.” De Grey received Ardila was recognized for inspiring students “from all his PhD in biology from the University of Cambridge. His walks of life to recognize and realize their potential in research interests encompass the characterization of all the mathematics.” He is a “leader in the movement to broaden types of self-inflicted cellular and molecular damage that and deepen diversity in research mathematics.” He is constitute mammalian aging and the design of interven- director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute– tions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He is particu- Undergraduate Program (MSRI-UP), the largest Research larly interested in combinatorics, especially . Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Tim Chartier of Davidson College United States and the one that serves the largest number was awarded the 2020 Euler Book of students from underrepresented groups. He conceived Prize for Math Bytes (Princeton Uni- the SFSU-Colombia Combinatorics Initiative, through versity Press, 2014). The prize citation which he developed seven new courses to promote interna- reads: “Math Bytes gives readers a taste tional scholarly collaboration among undergraduates and of the mathematics and computing master’s students, including many from underrepresented applications that underlie many as- groups, at SFSU and the Universidad de Los Andes. He has pects of everyday life. With a wide published a wide range of expository articles in English, array of topics—including fractals, Spanish, and German. His YouTube channel contains more fonts, tweets, basketball, Google, dig- than 240 hours of freely available advanced mathematics, Tim Chartier ital images, movies, and more—the and his viewers come from over 150 countries. His article book exposes readers to a satisfying “Todos Cuentan: Cultivating Diversity in Combinatorics” assortment of mathematical ideas, many of which will be was published in the Notices in November 2016. Ardila new to nonmathematical audiences. That said, even more received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- mathematically inclined readers should find plenty of in- nology in 2003 under the direction of Richard P. Stanley. teresting material, including new ways of thinking about He is a Fellow of the AMS and of the Simons Foundation and applying familiar mathematical concepts. Chartier’s and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and of the exposition is clear, accessible, and fun. Regular challenge Premio Nacional de Ciencias and the Premio Nacional de problems encourage readers to explore for themselves Matemáticas in Colombia. His research is in combinatorics the ideas introduced in the text. All in all, Math Bytes is and its connections to geometry, algebra, topology, and an engaging and stimulating read that is sure to broaden applications. He enjoys reading, fútbol, playing records, or horizons and increase appreciation for the ubiquitous and playing marimba de chonta. invaluable role of computational mathematics in modern Tomforde “has had a deep and society.” Chartier received his PhD from the University positive impact at all levels of math- of Colorado, Boulder. He specializes in numerical linear ematics education.” According to algebra, with his recent work focusing on data science. He the prize citation, he has “recruited, has been a consultant on data analytics for ESPN, the New retained, and mentored members York Times, the US Olympic Committee, and teams in the of underrepresented groups spec- NBA, NFL, and NASCAR. He was the first chair of the Ad- tacularly” at all levels, including by visory Council for the National Museum of Mathematics. enrolling over seventy University In K–12 education, he has worked with Google and Pixar of Houston students in the Math on their educational initiatives. He was the recipient of the Alliance, the goal of which is to en- Mark Tomforde MAA Daniel Solow Author’s Award in 2019. Chartier tells sure that every underrepresented or the Notices: “My wife and I have professional training in underserved American student with mime, which includes master classes with Marcel Marceau. talent and ambition has the opportunity to earn a doctoral In fact, we paid for our wedding just over twenty-five years degree in a mathematical science. He is a cofounder and ago with a performance tour along the East Coast of the coorganizer of Gulf States Math Alliance (GSMath), one United States. We also have developed a mime show that of seven regional alliances, composed of members of the introduces mathematical ideas and have performed it Math Alliance in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. He

732 Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 67, Number 5 Mathematics People NEWS facilitates and promotes associated opportunities in the community to mathematics and statistics work done in Gulf Coast region. He developed the Cougars and Houston business, industry, and government, and with broadening Area Math Program (CHAMP), working in collaboration the participation and success of students in mathematical with neighborhood high schools and middle schools to sciences. provide a wide variety of mathematical activities. CHAMP Gerald J. Porter of the Univer- received the AMS Award for Mathematics Programs That sity of Pennsylvania received the Make a Difference in 2018, as well as a Phi Beta Kappa 2020 Gung and Hu Award for Dis- award for broadening participation in STEM. He developed tinguished Service to Mathematics a multifaceted collaboration between the University of for his service in “teaching, teacher Houston and Texas Southern University, recruited faculty education, research, MAA adminis- members from Houston as Math Alliance members, has tration, and, most importantly of all, served as a Project NExT consultant, and maintains mul- in leading the profession, especially tiple websites with a wide variety of materials for faculty the MAA, to value racial and gender and students. Tomforde received his PhD from Dartmouth diversity in all activities.” The prize College under the supervision of Dana P. Williams in 2002, Gerald J. Porter citation reads in part: “Jerry Porter held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa, and has also taught at the College of William and Mary. has spent decades in service to the MAA. His service in He was a Project NExT Fellow in 2002. He tells the Notices: terms of years and variety at the national level is extensive “I am a cinephile, and in my spare time I enjoy watching a but his service and care for the organization goes far be- wide variety of movies from different genres.” yond the lengthy list of committees on which he served Weekes “has had an extraordinary and positions he has held. His is the service that, while impact on the mathematics commu- not appearing on any list, has made the difference in the nity via superlative teaching, advis- MAA and our profession. He pursued this service while ing, and mentoring of students and providing strong support to Executive Directors, learning faculty at Worcester Polytechnic In- and sharing his great expertise, and being a change agent stitute (WPI), regionally, and nation- in the areas in which he was involved. He has been a men- ally.” She designed and organized the tor to many young mathematicians and has nominated Applied and Industrial Mathematics them for awards and committees, welcomed them at both Institute for Secondary Teaching at section and national meetings, and shown by example WPI, which offers workshops for Suzanne L. Weekes the importance of inclusivity. For many years he was the high school mathematics teachers. only male member of the Joint Committee on Women; as As a member of the Math Advisory always, Jerry strengthened MAA’s role on this committee. Group of Transforming Postsecondary Education in Math- Jerry welcomed the women and minorities who attend our ematics (TPSE Math), she coorganized and hosted the New meetings and encouraged them to take an active role in the England Regional Meeting on Upper-Division Pathways at Association.” With Jim White, he directed the Interactive WPI, now a model for such workshops in other regions. Mathematics Text Project, which funded the creation of She directed the Center for Industrial Mathematics and computer laboratories in six colleges to encourage the Statistics and also directed its WPI Research Experiences for creation of computer-based algebra materials in teaching. Undergraduates (REU) Program in Industrial Mathemat- Porter received his PhD from Cornell University in 1963 ics and Statistics. She is a cofounder of the Mathematical under the direction of William Browder. He is a life mem- Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program (MS- RI-UP) and of the MAA’s Preparation for Industrial Careers ber of the AMS and the MAA. Porter has been retired from in Mathematical Sciences (PIC Math) program, which has teaching since 2006. He enjoys traveling and has visited increased awareness of nonacademic career options and about seventy-five countries and all fifty states in the United preparing students for industrial careers. Weekes grew up States. He is an avid photographer and has had six photo in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, received her BS in shows at Penn. Since his retirement he has audited courses mathematics from Indiana University, and earned her PhD and seminars at Penn, including courses in ethnomusi- in 1995 from the University of Michigan. She was awarded cology, art, and literature. In June, he and his wife, Judy, the M. Gweneth Humphries Award of the Association for will celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Together Women in Mathematics (AWM) in 2019. Her research they funded the public lecture given each year at the Joint work is in numerical methods for differential equations, Mathematics Meetings with the goal of increasing public including applications to spatiotemporal composites/ awareness and appreciation of mathematics. dynamic materials and cancer growth. She is involved in several initiatives connecting the academic mathematics —From MAA announcements

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Enrico Bombieri of the Institute for Dmitrii Legatiuk of Bauhaus-Univer- Advanced Study has been awarded sität Weimar has been selected as the the 2020 Crafoord Prize in Mathe- recipient of the 2020 W. K. Clifford Prize for his “significant contribu- matics “for outstanding and influ- tions in Clifford analysis, including ential contributions in all the major interpolation of monogenic func- areas of mathematics, particularly tions, quaternionic operator calculus, number theory, analysis and alge- and construction of advanced numer- braic geometry.” The prize is awarded ical methods.” Legatiuk’s “interest by the Royal Swedish Academy of in Clifford analysis, particularly its Enrico Bombieri Dmitrii Legatiuk Sciences and the Crafoord Founda- potential to solve difficult applied tion; the disciplines rotate every year. The prize carries a problems, has led him to such advances as using quaterni- cash award of 6 million Swedish krona (approximately onic operator calculus to construct representation formulas US$618,000). for solutions of boundary value problems in advanced elasticity theories, interpolation of monogenic functions The prize citation reads in part: “Enrico Bombieri be- by various tools, and developing a finite element exterior longs to an increasingly rare group of mathematicians who calculus based on script geometry. His interests span math- can solve problems in almost all areas of mathematics. ematics, computer science, and engineering, reflecting the However, his greatest passion has always been number broad applicability of Clifford algebras and echoing the theory, which is the study of integers. He was just sixteen wide-ranging interests of W. K. Clifford himself.” Legatiuk years old when he published his first work in number the- earned his PhD from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where ory and, among other things, he is a leading expert on the his doctoral research earned him the 2015 University Prize Riemann hypothesis on the distribution of prime numbers. for Young Scientists. “Enrico Bombieri has made significant contributions in The W. K. Clifford Prize is an international scientific algebra, advanced geometry, and . He has prize intended to encourage young researchers to compete for excellence in research in theoretical and applied Clifford also contributed to solving Bernstein’s problem. This is a algebras and their analysis and geometry. It is awarded every variation of Plateau’s problem, about how to mathemati- three years at the International Conference on Clifford cally describe the shape of the soap film that forms when Algebras and Their Applications in , a wire frame is dipped into a soap solution.” held this year in Hefei, China. Bombieri was born in 1940 in Milan, Italy, and received his PhD in 1963 from the Università degli Studi di Milano. —G. Stacey Staples He has been professor at the University of Pisa (1966– Southern Illinois University 1974) and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1974–1977). He joined the faculty at the IAS in 1977, where he is now Chuzhoy Awarded professor emeritus. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1974. His honors also include the Feltrinelli Prize (1976), NAS Held Prize the Balzan Prize (1980), the Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica, Italy (2002), the Premio Internazi- Julia Chuzhoy of Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, onale Pitagora (2006), the AMS Joseph Doob Prize (2008), has been named the recipient of the 2020 Michael and the King Faisal International Prize (2010), and the Lifetime Sheila Held Prize of the National Academy of Sciences. According to the prize citation, Chuzhoy “has conducted Achievement Award of the Italian Scientists and Scholars influential work in the fields of graph , hardness of North America Foundation (2015). He is a member of of approximation, and structural graph theory, which have the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National introduced powerful new techniques and resolved deep Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of open questions. Arts and Sciences, among many others. “Chuzhoy and her coauthors achieved remarkable re- sults in designing algorithms for graph routing problems, —From a Royal Swedish Academy announcement which are among the most studied and important problems

734 Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 67, Number 5 Mathematics People NEWS in optimization. Insights from this work led to further made major contributions. The prize committee consisted significant impacts on structural graph theory, including of A. Basmajian, Y. Movsisyan, and V. Pambuccian. an exponential strengthening of the parameters of the Excluded Grid theorem. —Victor Pambuccian “Chuzhoy’s work on graph routing problems settled cen- New College, Arizona State University tral open questions in graph optimization and introduced powerful new graph decomposition and routing tech- niques, opening up the potential for future applications in Borodin and Petrov Awarded algorithm design and structural graph theory. The improved parameters for the Excluded Grid theorem led to faster al- 2020 Bernoulli Prize gorithms for a host of graph optimization problems, and stronger bounds for a number of graph theoretic results.” Alexei Borodin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- The prize carries a cash award of US$100,000. It honors ogy and Leonid Petrov of the University of Virginia have outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research been awarded the 2020 Bernoulli Prize for an Outstand- in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or ing Survey Article in Probability or Statistics. They were related parts of computer science, such as the design and honored for their article “Integrable Probability: From and complexity theory. to Macdonald Processes,” Probabil- ity Surveys 11 (2014). The prize recognizes authors of an —From an NAS announcement influential survey publication in the areas of probability and statistics.

Borodin and Viazovska —Bernoulli Society announcement Awarded Fermat Prize National Academy of Alexei Borodin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy and Maryna Viazovska of the École Polytechnique Engineering Elections Fédérale de Lausanne have been awarded the 2019 Fermat Prize for research in mathematics. Borodin was honored for The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected the invention of integrable , a new area at eighty-seven new members and eighteen international the interface of representation theory, combinatorics, and members for 2020. Below are the new members whose statistical physics. Viazovska was honored for her original work involves the mathematical sciences. solution of the famous sphere packing problem in dimen- •• Graham V. Candler, University of Minnesota, Minneap- sions 8 and 24. The prize rewards mathematicians under olis, for development and validation of computational forty-five years old whose research works are in number models for high-fidelity simulation of supersonic and theory, analytic geometry, probability, and research related hypersonic interactions. to the variational principles. •• Kenneth C. Hall, Duke University, for development of —Fermat Prize announcement unsteady aerodynamic and aeromechanics theories and analysis for internal and external aerodynamic flows. •• Mrdjan Jankovic, Ford Motor Company, for contri- Haykazyan Awarded butions to nonlinear and automotive technology. Emil Artin Junior Prize •• Sallie Ann Keller, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, for development and application of engineering and Levon Haykazyan of Oxford Asset Management has been awarded the 2020 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics. statistical techniques in support of national security Haykazyan was chosen for his paper “Spaces of Types in and industry. Positive Model Theory,” Journal of Symbolic Logic 84 (2019). •• Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Johns Hopkins University, for Established in 2001, the Emil Artin Junior Prize in Math- research on multiscale mathematical modeling and ematics carries a cash award of US$1,000 and is presented scientific computation for complex, nonlinear reaction, usually every year to a student or former student of an Ar- and transport processes. menian educational institution under the age of thirty-five •• Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories, for con- for outstanding contributions to algebra, geometry, topol- tributions to the design of scientific software, including ogy, and number theory—the fields in which Emil Artin decompositions and .

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•• Muriel Médard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, •• Ila Varma, University of Toronto for contributions to the theory and practice of network •• Cynthia Vinzant, North Carolina State University coding. •• Alexander Wright, University of Michigan •• Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University, for contri- •• Yao Yao, Georgia Institute of Technology butions to the theory, design, and implementation of •• Zhizhen Zhao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham- optimization algorithms and machine learning software. paign •• Alexander A. Shapiro, Georgia Institute of Technology, for contributions to the theory, computation, and ap- —From a Sloan Foundation announcement plication of stochastic programming. •• Peter W. Shor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Credits for pioneering contributions to quantum computation. Photo of Larry Guth is courtesy of the MIT Department of •• Charles W. Wampler II, General Motors Corporation, Mathematics. Photo of Vladimir Pozdnyakov is courtesy of Zhanna Pozd- for leadership in robotic systems in manufacturing, nyakova. mathematical methods for robot motion and machine Photo of J. Michael Steele is courtesy of Catalin Starica. design, and traction battery modeling. Photo of Tim Chartier is courtesy of Davidson College. •• Elected as an international member was Wolfgang Mar- Photo of Suzanne Weekes is courtesy of Worcester Polytech- quardt, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany, nic Institute. Photo of Gerald J. Porter is courtesy of Felice Macera. for contributions to process systems engineering and Photo of Enrico Bombieri is courtesy of Cliff Moore. large-scale computations and for national leadership in Photo of Dmitrii Legatiuk is courtesy of Dmitrii Legatiuk. science/technology policy and management.

—From an NAE announcement 2020 Sloan Fellows The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the names of 126 recipients of the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships. Each year the foundation awards fellowships in the fields of mathematics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, neurosci- JOIN THE ence, physics, and ocean sciences. Grants of US$75,000 for 1 a two-year period are administered by each Fellow’s insti- AMS tution. Once chosen, Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry most interest them, and they are permitted BOOKSTORE to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. Following are the names and institutions of the 2020 EMAIL LIST awardees in the mathematical sciences. Be the fi rst to learn about: •• Jeff Calder, University of Minnesota • Publishing highlights •• Roger Casals, University of California, Davis •• Otis Chodosh, Stanford University • New titles being released •• Damek Davis, Cornell University • Monthly sales •• Tarek M. Elgindi, University of California, San Diego • Special discounts on AMS publications •• Peter Hintz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology •• Robert Hough, Stony Brook University •• Hao Huang, Emory University SIGN UP AT •• Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar, University of Chicago •• Aleksandr Logunov, Princeton University ams.org/bookstore-email-list. •• Linquan Ma, Purdue University •• Sung-Jin Oh, University of California, Berkeley •• Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania •• Omer Tamuz, California Institute of Technology •• Samuel Taylor, Temple University

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