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The 2008 Noticesindex The 2008 Notices Index January issue: 1–200 May issue: 553–656 October issue: 1065–1216 February issue: 201–336 June/July issue: 657–768 November issue: 1217–1360 March issue: 337–440 August issue: 769–912 December issue: 1361–1504 April issue: 441–552 September issue: 913–1064 2008 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in Index Section Page Number a Mathematics Department, 598 2008 Bôcher Prize, 499 The AMS 1484 2008 Cole Prize in Number Theory, 497 Announcements 1485 2008 Conant Prize, 491 Articles 1485 2008 Doob Prize, 503 Authors 1486 2008 Eisenbud Prize, 505 Deaths of Members of the Society 1487 2008 Morgan Prize, 494 Grants, Fellowships, Opportunities 1489 2008 Steele Prizes, 486 Letters to the Editor 1490 2008–2009 AMS Centennial Fellowship Awarded, 715 Meetings Information 1491 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, New Publications Offered by the AMS 1491 973, 1288 Obituaries 1491 American Mathematical Society—Contributions, 623 Officers and Committee Members 1491 Opinion 1491 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships, 62, 1110 Prizes and Awards 1492 AMS Announces Congressional Fellow, 721 Prizewinners 1494 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 1289 Reference and Book List 1501 AMS Department Chairs Workshop, 1112 Reviews 1501 AMS Email Support for Frequently Asked Questions, 274 Surveys 1501 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1110 Tables of Contents 1501 AMS Holds Workshop for Department Chairs, 721 AMS Honors Mathematics Teachers, 841 AMS Scholarships for “Math in Moscow”, 973 About the Cover AMS Short Course in Washington, DC, 1161 AMS Sponsors Exhibition on Mathematics and Cardiol- 41, 225, 380, 549, 595, 710, 813, 959, 1160, 1300, 1427 ogy, 1112 The AMS AMS Sponsors NExT Fellows, 1294 Applications and Nominations Invited for Position of AMS 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report), 253 Associate Secretary, 866 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Biographies of Candidates, 2008, 1002 Report, Part II), 387 Call for Applications and Nominations for Editor of the 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the Notices, 665, 797 United States (Second Report), 814 Call for Nominations for the Albert Leon Whiteman Memo- 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the rial Prize, 521 United States (Third Report), 1271 Call for Nominations for AMS Award for Mathematics 2007 Election Results, 301 Programs That Make a Difference, 300 2008 American Mathematical Society Election (Special Call for Nominations for the AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Section), 996 Brennie Morgan Prize, 520 2008 AMS Election—Nominations by Petition, 302 Call for Nominations for the Frank Nelson Cole Prizes, 2008 Award for Distinguished Public Service, 508 519 1484 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 55, NUMBER 11 2008 Index Call for Nominations for the George David Birkhoff Prize, Crystals That Nature Might Miss Creating (Toshikazu 519 Sunada), 208 Call for Nominations for Leroy P. Steele Prizes, 404 (An) Evaluation of Mathematics Competitions Using Item Call for Nominations for the Levi L. Conant Prize, 519 Response Theory (Jim Gleason), 8 Call for Nominations for the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, (The) Father of the Father of American Mathematics (Steve 521 Batterson), 352 Call for Suggestions for 2009 AMS Elections, 1014 Formal Proof (Thomas C. Hales), 1370 Current Events Session at Joint Meetings, 66 Formal Proof—The Four-Color Theorem (Georges Gonthier), Epsilon Awards for 2008, 617 1382 Epsilon Scholarships Awarded for 2008, 1438 Formal Proof—Getting Started (Freek Wiedijk), 1408 Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture, 66 Formal Proof—Theory and Practice (John Harrison), Fan China Exchange Program Names Awardees, 2008, 1395 721 From the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra to Astro- From the AMS Public Awareness Office, 273, 399, 512, 617, physics: A “Harmonious” Path (Dmitry Khavinson and 722, 841, 978, 1113, 1294, 1438 Genevra Neumann), 666 Henri’s Crystal Ball (Philip J. Davis and David Mumford), General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences 458 of the AMS, 95 Interview with Martin Davis (Allyn Jackson), 560 Math in Moscow Scholarships Awarded, 273, 841 Irving Kaplansky’s Role in Mid-Twentieth Century Func- Mathematical Sciences Employment Center in Washington, tional Analysis (Richard V. Kadison), 216 DC, 1046, 1157 Jobs in Mathematics Education in Institutions of Higher MathSciNet Links to Mathematics Genealogy Project, 618 Education in the United States (Robert E. Reys), 676 New Mathematical Moments Available, 66 Mathematics and Voting (Donald G. Saari), 448 Nominations by Petition for 2009 AMS Election, 1015 Möbius Transformations Revealed (Douglas N. Arnold and Officers and Committee Members, 1122 Jonathan Rogness), 1226 Officers of the Society 2007 and 2008 Updates, 629 Old and New on the Exceptional Group G2​ (Ilka Agricola), Reciprocity Agreements, 1306 922 Report of the Executive Director, State of the AMS, 2008, (A) Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical 850 Texts (Jöran Friberg), 1076 Report of the Treasurer (2007), 858 Uncovering a New L-function (Andrew R. Booker), 1088 Search for an Executive Director for the American Math- Undecidability in Number Theory (Bjorn Poonen), 344 ematical Society, 1075, 1222 Victor L. Klee (1925–2007) (Peter Gritzmann and Bernd Statistics on Women Mathematicians Compiled by the Sturmfels), 467 AMS, 1132 Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (Winfried Scharlau), Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards Presented, 1437 930 Voting Information for 2008 AMS Election, 865 Your Hit Parade: The Top Ten Most Fascinating Formulas in Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook (George E. Andrews and Announcements Bruce C. Berndt), 18 DoE Report on Applied Mathematics, 976 Everett Pitcher Lectures, 398 — Featured Communications McCarthy Appointed AWM Executive Director, 976 Ask Professor Nescio, 590 News from PIMS, 270 Evansville Honors the First Black Ph.D. in Mathematics and Noticed: Kevin Short, 618 His Family (Talitha M. Washington), 588 Noticed: Manil Suri, 618 Visualizing the Sieve of Eratosthenes (David Cox), 579 Program for ICM2010, Hyderabad, 271 Santosa Appointed IMA Director, 1292 — Communications STIX Fonts Project Completes Design Phase, 270 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Articles Report), (Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen Rose), 253 — Features 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First (A) Centennial Celebration of Two Great Scholars: Heiberg’s Report, Part II), (Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Translation of the Lost Palimpsest of Archimedes— Colleen Rose), 387 1907; Heath’s Publication on Euclid’s Elements—1908 2007 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third (Shirley B. Gray), 776 Report, Part III), (Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Computable Fields and Galois Theory (Russell Miller), Colleen A. Rose), 1271 798 2008 Award for Distinguished Public Service, 508 Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Tal- 2008 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in ent in Mathematical Problem Solving (Titu Andreescu, a Mathematics Department, 598 Joseph A. Gallian, Jonathan M. Kane, and Janet E. Mertz), 2008 Bôcher Prize, 499 1248 2008 Cole Prize in Number Theory, 497 DECEMBER 2008 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1485 2008 Index 2008 Conant Prize, 491 (A) View on the Transition from Academia to Finance 2008 Doob Prize, 503 (Catherine O’Neil), 700 2008 Eisenbud Prize, 505 WHAT IS…a Cross Ratio? (François Labourie), 1234 2008 JPBM Communications Award, 605 WHAT IS…Forcing? (Thomas Jech), 692 2008 Morgan Prize, 494 WHAT IS…an -Category? (Jacob Lurie), 949 ∞ 2008 Steele Prizes, 486 WHAT IS…JPEG? (David Austin), 226 Adventures in Academic Year Undergraduate Research WHAT IS…Outer Space? (Karen Vogtmann), 784 (Kathryn Leonard), 1422 WHAT IS…a Period Domain? (James Carlson and Phillip Arnold and Faddeev Receive 2008 Shaw Prize, 966 Griffiths), 1418 Ask Professor Nescio, 1263 WHAT IS…Property A? (Piotr Nowak and Guoliang Yu), AWM Awards Given in San Diego, 609 474 Building a Research Career: Mathematics Research Com- WHAT IS…Quantum Chaos? (Ze’ev Rudnick), 32 munities (Allyn Jackson), 247 WHAT IS…Stable Commutator Length? (Danny Calegari), Citation Statistics: An IMU Report, 968 1100 Clarke, Emerson, and Sifakis Receive 2007 ACM Turing WHAT IS…a Systole? (Marcel Berger), 374 Award, 709 WHAT IS…a Toric Variety? (Ezra Miller), 586 Climate Change: A Research Opportunity for Mathematics? Where Are Journals Headed? Why We Should Worry About (Patricia Clark Kenschaft), 695 Author-Pay (John Ewing), 381 Deligne, Griffiths, and Mumford Receive 2008 Wolf Prize William J. LeVeque (1923–2007) (James W. Maxwell), (Allyn Jackson), 594 1261 Differential Geometry, Strasbourg, 1953 (Michèle Audin), 366 Authors Donaldson Receives Nemmers Prize, 808 Agricola, Ilka, 922 Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request for the National Science Andreescu, Titu, 1248 Foundation (Allyn Jackson), 711 Andrews, George E., 18 Grothendieck at 80, IHES at 50 (Allyn Jackson), 962 Arnold, Douglas N., 1069, 1226 Hardy’s “Small” Discovery Remembered (Indika Rajapakse, Audin, Michèle, 366 Lindsey Muir, and Paul Martin), 384 Austin, David, 226 Interview with George Csicsery (Bill Casselman), 576 Batterson, Steve, 352 Interview with Srinivasa Varadhan (Martin Raussen and Berger, Marcel, 374 Christian Skau), 238 Berggren, J. L., 943 James Eells (1926–2007) (Domingo Toledo), 704 Berndt, Bruce C., 18 Karp Receives 2008 Kyoto Prize, 1102 Booker, Andrew R., 1088 Kontsevich and Witten Receive 2008 Crafoord Prize in Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre, 1221 Mathematics, 593 Calegari, Danny, 235, 1100 (The) Last Poem of James
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