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2016 Noticesissue Index 2016 Notices Issue Index Search for specific content that appeared in the 2016 Notices. This year-end Index is presented below in two easily searchable Parts: Part I: Issue at-a-Glance, is organized by specific Volume and Issue. This Part provides readers with a quick snapshot of the main articles featured in each specific Notices issue. Part II: Societal Record, is organized alphabetically under each category heading. This Part provides readers with a searchable listing of all content of record for the Society, including: elections, awards, meetings, news, opportunities, annual AMS reports, surveys, grants, fellowships, etc. Issue at-a-Glance January 2016 February 2016 Volume 63, Issue I • pages 1–112 Volume 63, Issue 2 • pages 113–224 FEATURES FEATURES JMM 2016 Lecture Sampler (Kristin Estella Lauter, Karen E. Smith, Ad Honorem Louis Nirenberg .................................119 Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Marta Lewicka and M. Reza Pakzad, Exploring the Unknown (Tristan Riviére)......................120 Tanya A. Moore, Tatiana Toro, Daniel Alan Spielman, Steve Interview with Louis Nirenberg (Martin Raussen, Zelditch, and Alex Eskin)......................................7 Christian Skau)............................................ 135 William P. Thurston, 1946–2012, Pt II (David Gabai and Steve “I plan to be a great mathematician”: An NFL Offensive Lineman Kerckhoff, Coordinating Editors, Yair Minsky, Lee Mosher, Jeff Shows He's One of Us, (Stephen D. Miller) ..................148 Weeks, Benson Farb, Danny Calegari, Ian Agol, Genevieve Recent Applications of Nirenberg's Classical Ideas (communicated Walsh, Carol Wood, Tan Lei, Curtis McMullen) ...............31 by Christina Sormani) ..................................... 126 COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS Uffe Haagerup—In Memoriam (Alain Connes, Vaughan Jones, (The) Common Core and the Potential for Mathematicians to Magdalena Muysat, Mikael Rørdam) ........................48 Improve the Teaching of School Mathematics (Jason Zimba) 154 REVIEWS How to Deal With a Mathematics Journal Editor (Scott T. Chapman) ................................................ 182 (The) Mathematics of Being Human (Stephen Abbott) . 42 (The) Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), (Jill Pipher, Sergei Tabachnikov, Homer F. BOOKSHELF...............................................51 Walker) ...................................................160 COMMENTARY REVIEWS Welcome from the new Editor-in-Chief (The) Man Who Knew Infinity: A Report on the Movie (George E. (Frank Morgan) ............................................. 4 Andrews) ................................................. 178 ABOUT THE COVER....................................55 BOOKSHELF............................................. 185 THE BACK PAGE ........................................112 COMMENTARY GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Graduate Student Blog........................................28 (An) Apology to Galois (Harold Edwards) .....................116 Interview with Ian Agol (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ...............23 Response to Siegmund-Schultz Review (Alexander Soifer) .....116 Response to Soifer (Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze) .............116 WHAT IS… an Ergodic Transformation? (Cesar E. Silva) .................26 THE BACK PAGE .......................................224 DECEMBER 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1335 2016 Index GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS Graduate Student Blog.......................................146 Gurel, Okan (1931–2015).....................................307 Interview with Fernando Codá Marques (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ...........................................................142 Sibner, Lesley (1934–2013)...................................308 WHAT IS… April 2016 Gauss Curvature? (Editors) ................................144 Volume 63, Issue 4 • pages 337–480 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS Ash, Robert B.; Bogar, Gary A.; Eltze, Ervin; Fleishman, Bernard A.; FEATURES Geeslin, Robert H.; Higgins, Philip J.; Klingenberg, Wilhelm P.A.; Alexandre Grothendieck 1928–2014, Part 2 (Martin Artin, Allyn Mock, Gordon D.; Moore, W. Keith.; Schmidt, Harvey J. Jr.; Stout, Jackson, David Mumford, and John Tate, Coordinating Editors, Lawrence Neff; Teicher, Henry; Theusch, Colleen J...........194 Yves Ladegaillerie, Stephen Lichtenbaum, Pierre Lochak, Barry Mazur, William Messing, David Mumford, Jacob Murre, Valentin March 2016 Poénaru, Leila Schneps, John Tate . 401 Volume 63, Issue 3 • pages 225–336 AMS Spring Sectional Sampler (Laura Felicia Matusevich, Rodrigo Ba˜nuelos, Steph van Willigenburg) . 359 FEATURES Gauge Invariance of Degenerate Riemannian Metrics (Alice Alexandre Grothendieck, 1928–2014, Part I Barbara Tumpach).........................................342 (Michael Artin, Allyn Jackson, David Mumford, and John Tate, Coordinating Editors) .......................242 Mathematics Awareness Month (Lisa R. Goldberg, Olle Häggström, C. Ciliberto, How Grothendieck Simplified Algebraic Geometry (Colin McLarty) ...........................................................256 Jose Maria P. Balmaceda, Francis E. Su).....................352 Kadar-Parisi-Zhang Universality..............................230 COMMUNICATIONS Modeling Ebola at the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology COMMUNICATIONS Institute (MTBI) (C. Castillo-Chavez, K. Barley, I. M. Gelfand and his Seminar—A Presence (A. Beilinson) ....295 D. Bichara, D. Chowell, E. Diaz Herrera, B. Espinoza, (The) Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in V. Moreno, S. Towers,and K. E. Yong, Communicated by Mathematics (ICERM), (Jill Pipher, Sergei Tabachnikov, Homer F. Steven J. Miller) ...........................................366 Walker) ...................................................160 New Directions in Numerical Computation (Tobin A. Driscoll, Meeting Grothendieck, 2012 (Katrina Honigs) ................266 Endre Süli, and Alex Townsend, Editors, Jean-Paul Berrut, Using Mathematics at AIM to Outwit Mosquitoes (Józef Z. Farkas, Bengt Fornberg, Anne Greenbaum, Nicholas J. Higham, Randy Stephen A. Gourley, Ronsong Liu, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu) . 292 LeVeque, Ian H. Sloan).....................................398 Who Would Have Won the Fields Medal 150 Years Ago (Jeremy REVIEWS Gray, Communicated by Thomas Garrity) ...................269 Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers 1990–2014 DOCEAMUS (Gerald B. Folland).........................................442 Can Math Education Research Improve the Teaching of Abstract Algebra? (Tim Fukawa-Connelly, Estrella Johnson, and Rachel BOOKSHELF.............................................444 Keller .....................................................276 COMMENTARY REVIEWS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR How Not to be Wrong: A Book Review (Andrew J. Blumberg) ...301 Consider Poster Sessions Linked to Special Sessions............ 415 .............................................304 BOOKSHELF Free Speech at Universities................................... 415 ABOUT THE COVER...................................240 ABOUT THE COVER...................................365 THE BACK PAGE .......................................336 THE BACK PAGE .......................................480 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION Graduate Student Blog.......................................287 Graduate Student Blog....................................... 381 Interview with Elisenda Grisby (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) .......282 Interview with Arlie Petters (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ..........376 WHAT IS… an Anabelian Scheme (Kirsten Wickelgren, Communicated by WHAT IS… Cesar E. Silva) .............................................285 a Quandle? (Sam Nelson, Communicated by Cesar E. Silva) 378 1336 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 11 2016 Index 2016 Index—Issue 2016at-a-Glance Index May 2016 June/July 2016 Volume 63, Issue 5 • pages 481–600 Volume 63, Issue 6 • pages 601–728 FEATURES FEATURES AMS President Robert Bryant: His Early Life and His Views on Interview with Abel Laureate John F. Nash Jr. (Martin Raussen, Mathematics (Allyn Jackson) ..............................614 Christian Skau). ...........................................486 Sir Andrew J. Wiles Awarded Abel Prize (Elaine Kehoe with John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) (Camillo De Lellis, Coordinating The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters official Press Editor, John Milnor, John Nachbar, Jonathan Weinstein, Henry C. Release) ..................................................608 King, László Székelyhidi Jr., Cedric Villani) ..................492 Tensors and Their Eigenvectors (Bernd Sturmfels). ..........604 Open Problems in Mathematics (Allyn Jackson) ..............506 COMMUNICATIONS Artin and Levin Awarded National Medal of Science (Elaine (The) Quantum Computer Puzzle (Gil Kalai, Communicated by Kehoe)....................................................666 Joel Hass).................................................508 (The) Blog on Math Blogs (Anna Haensch) ...................643 COMMUNICATIONS (A) Common Vision for Undergraduate Mathematics (Tara Holm, 2016 Breakthrough Prize and New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes Karen Saxe, Communicated by Stephen Kennedy) ..........630 Awarded (Elaine Kehoe) ..................................558 Diffie and Helllman Receive 2015 Turing Award . 668 Comunicating Mathematics to Children (Rich Schwartz, Commu- Remembering Mark Mahowald 1931–2013 (Douglas C. Ravenel nicated by Joel Hass) . 518 with contributions by Martin C. Tangora, Stewart B. Priddy, Don- ald M. Davis, Mark J. Behrens) .............................652
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