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physics, and molecular biology.” According to the prize 2016–2017 citation, “Vazquez is a pioneer in an emerging field called Centennial DNA topology, which applies pure math to untangle the biological mysteries of DNA. Application areas of her Fellowship Awarded research include cancer treatment, drug design, under- The AMS has awarded its Centennial standing genome rearrangements after radiation damage Fellowship for 2016–2017 to Eyal or in cancer, and gaining insight into how genomes pack- Lubetzky. The fellowship carries a age in viruses and within cells and into how viral DNA stipend of US$89,000, an expense (e.g., retroviruses, such as HIV) integrates into the host

Photo courtesy of Eyal Lubetzky. allowance of US$8,900, and a com- genome.” She received her PhD in mathematical biology Eyal Lubetzky plimentary Society membership for from Florida State University in 2000. She has been the one year. recipient of NSF CAREER (2011) and PECASE (2012) awards Lubetzky is associate professor at the Courant In- and is passionate about working to increase diversity in stitute of Mathematical Sciences, University. the mathematical sciences at all levels. Mariel is married His main research interests are probability theory and combinatorics, with an emphasis on interacting particle to Javier Arsuaga, also a mathematical biologist with deep systems, random networks, and processes commitment to increasing diversity in the mathematical arising from statistical physics. He joined the Courant sciences. Together with their two children they enjoy fre- Institute in fall 2014, after being a senior researcher in quent visits to San Francisco and its museums, and love the Theory Group of Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, exploring the nearby Sierra Nevada. where he had spent seven years, starting as a postdoctoral The prize is awarded every two years in honor of the researcher. He earned his PhD in mathematics from Tel- legacy of David H. Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia, two Aviv University in 2007 and received the Rollo Davidson distinguished mathematical scientists who have been Prize in 2013. He plans to use the Centennial Fellowship inspirations to more than a generation of African Ameri- to visit during the 2016–2017 aca- can, Latino/Latina, and Native American students and demic year. Please note: Information about the competition for the professionals in the mathematical sciences. The prize 2017–2018 AMS Centennial Fellowships will be published recognizes a who has contributed signifi- in the “Mathematics Opportunities” section of an upcom- cantly to research in his or her field of expertise and who ing issue of the Notices. has served as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from underrepresented minority groups or —Allyn Jackson has contributed in other significant ways to addressing the problem of the underrepresentation of minorities in math. Past recipients of the prize are: Vazquez Awarded • (2002) 2016 Blackwell- •Rodrigo Ba˜nuelos (2004) •William Massey (2006) Tapia Prize •Juan Meza (2008) Trachette Jackson (2010) Mariel Vazquez of the University • Ricardo Cortez (2012) of California Davis has been cho- • sen as the recipient of the 2016 •Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver (2014) Blackwell-Tapia Prize for her “im- portant contributions at the in- —From a National Institute for Mathematical Mariel Vazquez terface of mathematics, polymer and Biological Synthesis announcement

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Fauci received her PhD in mathematics from the Cou- Dani Awarded Michler Prize rant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York Univer- Pallavi Dani of Louisiana State sity, under the direction of Charles Peskin. She joined the University has been awarded the faculty of Tulane immediately thereafter and is currently 2016–2017 Ruth I. Michler Memo- Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor of Mathematics. rial Prize of the Association for She has held visiting positions at the University of Utah Women in Mathematics (AWM) and . She has been the recipient of and Cornell University. Dani was a Sloan Fellowship and was an invited speaker at the selected for “her wide range of Eighth International Congress on Industrial and Applied mathematical talents and the close Mathematics (ICIAM) in Beijing, China, in 2015. She is connection of her work with the a of SIAM and has served on editorial boards of research of several mathematics several journals. faculty at Cornell.” Her research The Sonia Kovalevsky Lectureship honors significant Pallavi Dani is in the area of geometric group contributions by women to applied or computational theory. In particular, she studies quasi-isometry invari- mathematics. ants of groups, such as Dehn functions and divergence, with a special interest in hyperbolic groups and CAT(0) —From an AWM announcement groups. More recently she has been working on the quasi- isometry and commensurability classification of right- angled Coxeter groups. At Cornell she will be working with Chvátal and Lasserre Awarded Tim Riley on questions related to subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups and filling invariants in subgroups of von Neumann Prize nonpositively curved groups, with Jason Manning on the Vaˇsek Chvátal of Concor- theory of special cube complexes, as well as with Martin dia University and Jean Ber- Kassabov and Justin Moore. nard Lasserre of CNRS have Dani received her PhD in mathematics from the Uni- been awarded the John von versity of Chicago in 2005 under the direction of Benson Neumann Theory Prize for Farb. She has been a visiting assistant professor at the 2015. The citation reads in University of Oklahoma and visiting research associate part: “This award recognizes (2008–2009) at Emory University before joining the faculty their seminal and profound of Louisiana State, where she is currently associate profes- contributions to the theoreti- sor in the Department of Mathematics. cal foundations of optimiza- The Michler Prize grants a midcareer woman in aca- tion. Through their work in demia a residential fellowship in the Cornell University the domains of integer pro- Mathematics Department without teaching obligations. gramming and polynomial Photo by David Ward. Vaˇsek Chvátal optimization, respectively, —From an AWM announcement Chvátal and Lasserre devel- oped the mathematical theory and corresponding computa- Fauci Awarded Kovalevsky tional approaches to tackle hard computational problems Lectureship that compute strengthened Lisa J. Fauci of Tulane University bounds via tractable convex has been chosen as the AWM-SIAM relaxations. The notions of Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2016 Chvátal rank and the Lasserre by the Association for Women in hierarchy each have impact Mathematics (AWM) and the Society well beyond their initial re- for Industrial and Applied Math- search spheres and are simul- ematics (SIAM). She was honored taneously elegant mathematics Jean Bernard Lasserre “for her pioneering contributions and the foundations for new to mathematical and computational algorithmic approaches.” modeling of aquatic locomotion, Vaˇsek Chvátal was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in microorganism motility, and fluid 1946, emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he received his Lisa J. Fauci dynamics of human reproduction. PhD from the University of Waterloo, and became a Que- Her career combines rigorous asymptotic analysis and becois patriot in 1971. He is the author of a short story, biological data to validate computational models, a his- “Déjá Vu,” which was published in Prism magazine in tory of service to the mathematical community, and a 1973. lasting legacy of mentoring early career scientists.” Her Jean Bernard Lasserre was born in France in 1953 and work involves collaborations with applied , received his PhD in 1978 from Paul Sabatier University, as computational scientists, and experimental biologists. well as a Doctorat d’Etat in 1984. He is the author of about

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160 papers and author or coauthor of eight books, as well and friendship in 2001. At that time, we were thinking as coeditor of two more. He was awarded the Lagrange about the mechanism of mirror symmetry from comple- Prize in 2009 and is a fellow of the Society for Industrial mentary points of views. After bumping into each other on and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). a train platform in the Black Forest, we became convinced The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annu- that the two points of view fit together like missing pieces ally to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who of a puzzle. We rather quickly became certain that we were has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory on the right track. It has been, however, a long struggle in operations research and the management sciences. It is with many technical hurdles to overcome. In the end, the the highest prize given in the field. It carries a cash award scope of the project surprised even us. We are very grate- of US$5,000. ful to the mathematics community which supported our

ideas even in the early days when it was not clear to the —From an INFORMS announcement world whether or not our ideas would bear fruit.” The awards will be presented at the 2016 Clay Research Conference at the in September 2016. 2016 Clay Research Awards Presented —From a CMI announcement Mark Gross of the and Bernd Siebert of Prizes of the Canadian the University of Hamburg have received a Clay Research Award Mathematical Society from the Clay Mathematics Insti- tute (CMI) “in recognition of their The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) has awarded a groundbreaking contributions number of prizes for 2016. to the understanding of mirror Daniel Wise of McGill University has been awarded the symmetry, in joint work gener- Jeffery-Williams Prize for Research Excellence. According ally known as the ‘Gross-Siebert to the prize citation, Wise “is widely recognized as one Photo by Rachel Engler. Mark Gross program’.” According to the prize of the top geometric group theorists in the world, and citation, their work “has its or- the best of his generation. His work has had a profound igins in surprising predictions impact, not only in the immediate subject of geometric of nonperturbative dualities in group theory, but also playing a key role in the solution string theory: that the properties of outstanding open problems in the theory of 3-mani- of certain interesting geometries, folds.” He was recognized particularly for his work on notably Calabi-Yau manifolds, are special cube complexes and quasi-convex hierarchies of reflected in counter-intuitive ways hyperbolic groups. He was the recipient of the AMS Veblen in partner geometries (‘mirror Prize in 2013, the 2016 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, and a 2016 manifolds’).” Guggenheim Fellowship. Geordie Williamson of the Louigi Addario-Berry of McGill University has been Max Planck Institute for Math- honored with the 2016 Coxeter-James Prize for outstand- ematics and the University of Bernd Siebert ing contributions to mathematical research, particularly Sydney has received a Clay Re- his work at the interface of probability and combinator- search Award “in recognition of ics. According to the prize citation, one of the aims of his his groundbreaking work in rep- research is “to investigate the structure and scaling limits resentation theory and related fields”. The prize citation reads in of typical and exceptional paths in probabilistic discrete part: “In particular, the award rec- models and in their scaling limits, and in particular in ognizes two major breakthroughs. systems containing a phase transition or exhibiting some First, his proof, with Ben Elias, of form of tree-like behavior.” Soergel’s conjecture on bimod- Malabika Pramanik of the University of British Co- ules associated to Coxeter groups. lumbia has been awarded the Krieger-Nelson Prize for The second is the construction her outstanding research contributions. According to the

Photo by Axel Rönn. (building on earlier work with Ben prize citation, she “uses analytical tools to answer ques- Geordie Elias and Xuhua He) of counter- tions about pattern identification in sparse sets; that is, Williamson examples to the expected bounds finding regular structures within sets that are otherwise in Lusztig’s conjectured character very disordered and thin.” She received the 2015–2016 formula for rational representations of algebraic groups Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in in positive characteristics that grow exponentially with Mathematics and is an editor for AMS Transactions and the rank of the group.” Memoirs. The Krieger-Nelson Prize recognizes outstanding Gross and Siebert told the Notices: “We both feel very research by a woman mathematician. lucky to have met each other and begun our collaboration Ian VanderBurgh of the University of Waterloo has

June/July 2016 Notices of the AMS 673 Mathematics People been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award. Accord- The Rothschild Prizes are awarded by the Yad Hanadiv ing to the prize citation, his work “has had a significant Foundation to support, encourage, and advance the sci- influence on the mathematical community among both ences and humanities in Israel. Prizes are awarded in students and teachers at large.” He has presented problem- recognition of original and outstanding published work solving workshops in elementary and secondary schools, in the following disciplines: mathematics/computer sci- assisted in coaching the Waterloo Putnam team, and led ences and engineering, chemical sciences and physical numerous initiatives to promote mathematics. He has been sciences, life sciences, Jewish studies, humanities and director of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at Waterloo since 2005. The prize recognizes social sciences. sustained and distinguished contributions in mathematics education at the postsecondary undergraduate level at a —From a Yad Hanadiv Foundation announcement Canadian institution.

—From CMS announcements Kostant Awarded Wigner Medal Strominger and Vafa Awarded Bertram Kostant of the Mass- Heineman Prize sachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy has been awarded the 2016 Andrew E. Strominger and of Harvard Wigner Medal “for his funda- University have been awarded the 2016 Dannie Heineman mental contributions to repre- Prize for “for leadership in numer- sentation theory that led to new ous central developments in string theory, quantum field theory, and quantum geometry; including the interplay branches of mathematics and between string theory and Calabi-Yau geometry and es- physics.” pecially for their elucidation of the origin of black hole Kostant told the Notices: “At Photo courtesy of Ann Kostant. entropy from microscopic states”. I got Bertram Kostant The Heineman Prize is awarded annually in recognition straight A’s in math, 100 on my of outstanding publications in the field of mathematical math Regent test, and bad grades in everything that was physics. The prize consists of US$10,000 and a certifi- nonmathematical. All my applications to colleges were cate. It was established by the Heineman Foundation for rejected everywhere, including (ironically) MIT. I got into Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes, Purdue by sheer luck, where Dean Ayres, a topologist, Inc., and is administered jointly by the American Physical gave me special permission to take three math graduate Society and the American Institute of Physics. courses in my junior year. A new kind of life then opened

—From a Heineman Foundation announcement up for me. After my junior year I decided that I would “do” mathematics. Eventually, as a graduate student in the stimulating environment of the , Linial Awarded Rothschild I was exposed to the rise of the new French revolution, namely the Bourbaki group, which was creating stunning Prize innovations in thinking about and writing down math- ematics. The sheer beauty of it all resonated with me. Nathan (Nati) Linial of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ed Spanier’s course on Group Theory used Chevalley’s has been awarded the Rothschild text. My marked-up Chevalley became one of my dearest Prize in Mathematics/Computer treasures and another turning point in my life. It was my Science and Engineering. His entrée into Lie groups and into new areas of mathemat- work involves combinatorics, ics for the next sixty-five-plus years. My desire and hope the theory of , appli- is to continue to explore related fields of mathematics in cations of geometry and analysis which I can create unification between seemingly diverse to the above fields, and compu- subjects.” tational molecular biology. He is The Wigner Medal recognizes outstanding contribu- a Fellow of the AMS. In addition

Photo by Yoray Liberman. tions to the understanding of physics through group to his work in combinatorics and Nathan Linial theoretical and representation theoretical methods. The the mathematical foundations of , Linial does work in bioinformatics, prize was awarded at the biannual International Collo- largely jointly with his wife, Michal Linial, a biologist. Linial quium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics in Rio and his wife have three children: Rotem, an artist; Nadav, a de Janeiro, Brazil. poet and literary scholar, and Itai, an astrophysicist. Linial is also a long-distance runner. —Michio Jimbo, Rikkyo University

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The first-place team receives an award of US$25,000, Weare Awarded IMA Prize and each member of the team receives US$1,000. The Jonathan Weare of the Univer- awards for second place are US$20,000 and US$800; for sity of Chicago was selected as the third place, US$15,000 and US$600; for fourth place, recipient of the 2015 IMA Prize in US$10,000 and US$400; and for fifth place, US$5,000 and Mathematics and Its Applications US$200. of the Institute for Mathematics Danielle Wang of the Institute of Tech- and Its Applications (IMA). He nology received the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award for was honored for “his innovative outstanding performance by a woman in the competition. contributions to the theory and She received an award of US$1,000. practice of stochastic sampling methods, in particular rare event —From an MAA announcement and Markov chain Monte Carlo al- Jonathan Weare gorithms for accelerating molec- ular simulations.” The IMA Prize 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship is awarded annually to an individual who has made a transformative impact on the mathematical sciences Awards to Mathematical and their applications. The prize carries a cash award of Scientists US$3,000. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has —From an IMA announcement announced the names of 175 scholars, artists, and sci- entists who were selected as Guggenheim for 2016. Selected as fellows in mathematics and applied Putnam Prizes Awarded mathematics were: •Charles R. Doering, , Ann The winners of the seventy-sixth William Lowell Putnam Arbor Mathematical Competition have been announced. The •Mark Newman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Putnam Competition is administered by the Mathematical •Daniel Wise, McGill University. Association of America (MAA) and consists of an examina- Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of im- tion containing mathematical problems that are designed pressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise to test both originality and technical competence. Prizes for future accomplishments. are awarded to both individuals and teams. The six highest-ranking individuals, listed in alphabeti- —From a Guggenheim Foundation announcement cal order, were: •Pakawut Jiradilok, •Bumsoo Kim, Princeton University Simons Fellows in Mathematics •Gyujin Oh, •Daniel Spivak, University of Waterloo The Mathematics and Physical Sci- •David H. Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- ences (MPS) division supports research in mathematics, nology theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science. The •Yunkun Zhou, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- MPS division provides funding for individuals, institutions, nology. and science infrastructure. The Fellows Program provides Each received a cash award of US$2,500. funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave Institutions with at least three registered participants from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. obtain a team ranking in the competition based on the The mathematical scientists who have been awarded Si- rankings of three designated individual participants. The mons Fellowships for 2016 are: five top-ranked teams (with members listed in alphabeti- •Jinho Baik, University of Michigan cal order) were: •Fedor Bogomolov, New York University • Massachusetts Institute of Tech- •Lev Borisov, Rutgers, The State University of New nology (Mark A. Sellke, Bobby C. Jersey Shen, David H. Yang), •Alexei Borodin, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- • Carnegie Mellon Univer- nology sity (Joshua Brakensiek, Linus Hamilton, •Fioralba Cakoni, Rutgers, The State University of Thomas Swayze) New Jersey •Princeton University (Rodrigo S. Angelo, Andre A. •Xiuxiong Chen, Arslan, Eric D. Schneider), •Maria Gordina, University of Connecticut •Stanford University (Jie Jun Ang, Gyujin Oh, Al- •J. Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College bert R. Zhang) •Thomas Haines, University of Maryland, College Park •Harvard University (Calvin Deng, Ravi Jagadeesan, •Julia Hartmann, University of Pennsylvania David W. Stoner). •Christopher Hoffman, University of Washington

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•Vera Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at geometric phase, a phase difference arising from cyclically Urbana-Champaign changing conditions with applications throughout physics, •Michael Hutchings, University of California including optics and condensed matter.” Berkeley Frank R. de Hoog of Commonwealth Scientific and •Adrian Iovita, Concordia University Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has received the •Gautam Iyer, Carnegie Mellon University 2016 ANZIAM Medal. According to the prize citation, “his •Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland, College contributions to applied, computational and industrial Park mathematical research are nationally and internationally •Vitali Kapovitch, University of Toronto famous, while his contributions to ANZIAM have had a •Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh significant impact especially in the development of the •Sean Keel, University of Texas at Austin student support scheme.” •Bryna Kra, Joshua Ross of the University of Adelaide has been •Radu Laza, Stony Brook University awarded the 2016 J. H. Michell Medal, which recognizes •Liping Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New an outstanding young researcher in applied and/or indus- Jersey trial mathematics. Ross was honored for his “significant •Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology contributions to methodology in Applied Mathematics •Andrew Neitzke, University of Texas at Austin and, through its application, to conservation biology and •Adam Oberman, McGill University public health policy.” •Robert Pego, Carnegie Mellon University •Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania —From Australian Mathematical Society announcements •Robert Pollack, Boston University •Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles •Dinakar Ramakrishnan, California Institute of *NSF Graduate Research Technology •Richard Schwartz, Brown University Fellowships Awarded Avraham Soffer, Rutgers, The State University of • The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a num- New Jersey ber of Graduate Research Fellowships for fiscal year 2016. , University of California Berkeley • Further awards may be announced later in the year. This Brian White, Stanford University • program supports students pursuing doctoral study in all Dapeng Zhan, Michigan State University • areas of science and engineering and provides a stipend of •Shou-Wu Zhang, Princeton University •Michael Zieve, University of Michigan. US$30,000 per year for a maximum of three years of full- time graduate study. Seventy-seven graduate fellowships —From a Simons Foundation announcement were awarded in 2016, an increase from the sixty awarded in 2015. Information about the solicitation for the 2017 competition will be published in the “Mathematics Op- portunities”’ section of an upcoming issue of the Notices. Intel Science Talent Search Following are the names of the awardees in the math- Meena Jagadeesan, seventeen, of Naperville, Illinois, won ematical sciences selected so far in 2016, followed by the Second Place Medal of Distinction for Basic Research their undergraduate institutions (in parentheses) and the in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search. She investigated institutions at which they plan to pursue graduate work. an object in algebraic combinatorics, or the mathematics •Austin R. Alderete (George Mason University) of counting, to reveal a novel relationship between classes George Mason University of graphs. She received a scholarship award of US$75,000. •Loren J. Anderson (North Dakota State University, The Intel Science Talent Search is administered by the Fargo), North Dakota State University, Fargo Society for Science and the Public (SSP). •Lea Beneish (Indiana University), Emory University •Zachary Branson (Carnegie Mellon University), —From an SSP announcement Harvard University •Sarah C. Burnett (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ANZIAM Prizes Announced •Aaron T. W. Calderon (University of Nebraska), University of Nebraska Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Math- •Robert A. Cass (University of Kentucky), University ematics (ANZIAM), a division of the Australian Math- of Kentucky ematical Society, has awarded several medals for 2016. •Michael V. Celentano (Stanford University), Stan- Sir Michael Berry of the has been *The most up-to-date listing of NSF funding opportunities from awarded the 2016 Moyal Medal. According to the prize the Division of Mathematical Sciences can be found online at: citation, “he is known for his research in borderlands www.nsf.gov/dms and for the Directorate of Education and between theories: classical and quantum, rays and waves. Human Resources at www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=ehr. His emphasis is on geometrical singularities such as ray To receive periodic updates, subscribe to the DMSNEWS listserv by caustics and wave vortices. Sir Michael discovered the following the directions at www.nsf.gov/mps/dms/about.jsp.

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ford University Paul), North Carolina State University •Kathleen P. Champion (Dartmouth College), Uni- •Rebecca M. G. Menssen (Saint Olaf College), North- versity of Washington western University •Eric C. Chen (Princeton University), Princeton •Maggie H. Miller (University of Texas at Austin), University Princeton University •Julien E. Clancy (), Yale University •Timothy J. NeCamp (), Univer- •Lauren N. Crider (Arizona State University), Ari- sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor zona State University •Blanche S. Ngo Mahop (Howard University),Worces- •Kayla D. Davie (Spelman College), University of ter Polytechnic Institute Maryland, College Park •Evan M. O’Dorney (Harvard University), Cambridge •Stephanie DeGraaf (Iowa State University), Uni- University versity of California Berkeley •Jessica E. Oehrlein (Franklin W. Olin College of •Kelsey L. DiPietro (University of Illinois, Chicago), Engineering), Franklin W. Olin College of Engineer- ing •Robin K. Dunn (Kenyon College), Kenyon College •John Paige (Macalester College), University of •Billy Fang (Princeton University), University of Washington California Berkeley •Elisabeth C. Paulson (Pennsylvania State Univer- •Richard C. Fitzgerald (University of California sity, University Park) Berkeley), University of California Davis •Antony Pearson (University of Arizona), University •Michael Franco (Rice University) of Colorado, Boulder •Cole A. Graham (Massachusetts Institute of Tech- •Ismael Perez (San Diego State University), California nology), Cambridge University State University, Los Angeles •Kelsey E. Grinde (Saint Olaf College), University •Michael M. Perlman (University of Illinois, Chi- of Washington cago), University of Notre Dame •Peter J. Haine (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- •Samantha N. Petti (Williams College), Georgia ogy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute of Technology •Jackson R. Hance (University of Chicago), Univer- •Hadrian Quan (University of California Santa sity of Chicago Cruz), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Cody J. Reeves (University of Florida), Northwestern Felipe Hernandez (Massachusetts Institute of • • University Technology), Massachusetts Institute of Technol- Emily Roberts (Coe College), Coe College ogy • Mario Sanchez (Swarthmore College), Swarthmore Mo Huang (Washington University), University of • • College Pennsylvania Toryn Schafer (Colorado State University), Uni- Abdon Iniguez (University of California Irvine), • • versity of Missouri, of California Irvine Becket J. W. Sempliner (University of Chicago), Derrick T. Jones (Mississippi Valley State Univer- • • University of Chicago sity), Mississippi State University Ravi Shankar (California State University Chico), Aaron Landesman (Harvard College), Harvard • • California State University Chico College Laura Shou (California Institute of Technology), Andrea N. Lane (University of North Carolina, • • California Institute of Technology Chapel Hill), University of North Carolina, Chapel •Leila Sloman (McGill University), McGill University Hill •Kevin Stubbs (University of Maryland College Park), •Justin D. Lanier (St. John’s College), Georgia Insti- Duke University tute of Technology •Anne M. Talkington (Duke University), Duke •Michael Lindsey (Stanford University), University University of California Berkeley •Sarah E. Tammen (University of Georgia), University •Patrick Lopatto (Washington University), Harvard of Georgia University •Zachary Terner (University of Virginia), University •Thomas A. Mack-Crane (Case Western Reserve of California Santa Barbara University), University of California Berkeley •Hannah Turner (Ball State University), University •Dominique F. Maldague (University of California of Texas, Austin Berkeley), University of California Berkeley •Keyon Vafa (Harvard University), Harvard Uni- •Bryan D. Martin (Macalester College), University versity of Washington •Kaavya G. Valiveti (University of California Berke- •Ryan W. Matzke (Gettysburg College), University ley), University of California Berkeley of Minnesota, Twin Cities •Roger Vargas (Williams College), Williams College •Matthew B. A. McDermott (Harvey Mudd College) •Christy J. Vaughn (Duke University), Princeton •Melissa R. McGuirl (College of the Holy Cross), University Brown University •Madeleine A. Weinstein (Harvey Mudd College), •Christine V. Mennicke (Concordia College at Saint Harvey Mudd College

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•Jacqueline M. Wentz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), University of Colorado, Boulder 2016 AAAS Fellows Elected •Heather D. Wilber (Boise State University), Boise The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has State University elected 176 new fellows and 37 foreign honorary members •Karl G. Winsor (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), for 2016. Following are the new members whose work University of Michigan Ann Arbor involves the mathematical sciences. •Meng Xie (Duke University), Duke University •Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- •Farrah Yhee (Wellesley College), University of nology Michigan, Ann Arbor •Leslie Greengard, New York University/Simons •Chelsea Y. Zhang (Harvard College), University of Foundation California Berkeley •János Kollár, Princeton University •Leon Y. Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Tech- •Bryna R. Kra, Northwestern University nology). •Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University —NSF announcement •Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University •Hirosi Ooguri, California Institute of Technology •Thibault D’Amour, Institut des Hautes Études SIAM Fellows Elected Scientifiques Tal D. Rabin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) • has elected its new Fellows for 2016. Their names and —From an AAAS announcement institutions follow. •Linda J. S. Allen, Texas Tech University •Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas, Austin •Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University Fellows of the Royal Society of •Gang Bao, Zheijiang University London for 2015 •Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick •John J. Benedetto, University of Maryland, The following mathematical scientists have been elected College Park Fellows of the Royal Society of London: •Gregory Beylkin, University of Colorado, Boulder •, independent consultant, visiting •Paul C. Bressloff, University of Utah fellow, University of Bristol •Xiao-Chuan Cai, University of Colorado, Boulder •, St. John’s College, University of •Thomas F. Coleman, University of Waterloo Oxford •Clint N. Dawson, University of Texas, Austin •, University of Oxford •Maria J. Esteban, CNRS •Richard Thomas, Imperial College London •Michael Hintermüller, Weierstrass Institute •, University of Oxford for Applied Analysis and and Hum- •Jens Marklof, University of Bristol boldt-Universität zu Berlin •Anthony Edwards, University of Cambridge. •Michael Holst, University of California San Diego •Bo K agström° , Ume a° University —From a Royal Society announcement •Andrew Knyazev, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) and University of Colorado, Denver John C. Moore •Alan J. Laub, University of California Los Angeles •Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Princeton University professor emer- Laboratory itus John C. Moore, who died Janu- •Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Universidade Federal ary 1, specialized in algebraic do Rio de Janeiro topology and had many important •William M. McEneaney, University of California concepts named after him, includ- San Diego ing the Borel-Moore homology and •James G. Nagy, Emory University the Eilenberg-Moore spectral se- •Cynthia A. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories quence. In 1965, he published his •Michael C. Reed, Duke University most cited paper, on Hopf algebras, •Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota with John Milnor. •Christoph Schwab, ETH Zurich Peter May, a University of Chi- John C. Moore •Endre Süli, University of Oxford cago professor of mathematics and •Françoise Tisseur, University of Manchester graduate student under Moore in the early 1960s, said, •Sabine Van Huffel, KU Leuven “He was a very unworldly man in many respects. His •David P. Williamson, Cornell University interactions, at least with me, were totally focused on •Xunyu Zhou, Columbia University, University of mathematics.” Oxford After Moore left Princeton, he joined his former stu- —From a SIAM announcement dent Joseph Neisendorfer at the .

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Neisendorfer recalled an earlier time he visited Moore and in 1950, had children Esther and George, went into a lengthy, sprawling explanation as Moore sat and was divorced in 1958. silently before finally replying. Over her long and nomadic career, Verena held teaching “He just said, ‘If it’s true, it can’t be that complicated’”, and research positions at over fifteen institutions. From Neisendorfer said, laughing. “He proceeded right there in 1973 to 1988 she was professor of philosophy at the his chair to come up with the most brilliant, non-obvious University of Calgary, Alberta, where she taught gradu- way to do it. I wished he’d been with us all summer! We ate courses on the foundations of mathematics and the wouldn’t have wasted so much time. We had been hitting philosophy and methodology of the sciences and began away at this problem with sledgehammers and he just work on a monograph, Gödel’s Theorems: A Workbook on pulled out his sabre and ZIP! Formalization, published by Teubner in 1991. Her personal “He did hard things in clever ways, but he didn’t like and professional memoirs, commissioned by A K Peters, arguments that were too clever. He didn’t want something were left unfinished at her death. you could use once and it wouldn’t be useful anymore. Verena purchased a 1940 Dodge convertible shortly He wanted an argument that was useful in the long run. after her arrival in the and almost immedi- That’s why so many of his students had influential theses.” ately fell in love with the American West, driving cross- country countless times. A lifetime mountaineer and a —From Morgan Kelly, News at Princeton serious amateur photographer, she joined the Sierra Club in 1965, attending numerous Sierra Club base camps and high trips over the years, and later explored the Canadian Verena Huber-Dyson (1923– Rockies with Calgary as a base. After her retirement she settled on South Pender Island in British Columbia and 2016) lived there for most of fourteen years, refurbishing two waterfront properties, first at Gowland Point and later at Verena Huber-Dyson, a Swiss- Craddock Beach. She became an active kayaker, and made American-Canadian mathematician trips to Johnstone Strait, Glacier Bay, and Prince William known for her work in group theory, Sound. decision problems, and symbolic Although a champion of women’s rights, Verena’s final logic, was born in Naples, Italy on instructions include the statement that “Women should May 6, 1923, and died in Belling- not be encouraged to go into mathematics for any motive ham, Washington, USA, on March 12, other than their own stubborn preference and curiosity.” 2016. Her parents, Karl Huber and Berthy Ryffel, were Swiss nationals —George Dyson who raised Verena and her sister Adelheid in Athens, Greece, until forced to return to Switzerland in 1940 by the war. Her father eventu-

Photo courtesy of George Dyson. ally worked for the International Verena Huber- Committee of the Red Cross, moni- Dyson in a toring the treatment of prisoners self-portrait, of war in internment camps. As the Princeton, ca. Red Cross delegate to India and 1955. Ceylon, he was responsible for Ital- ian prisoners held in British camps, but also visited German and Allied camps in Europe, and in 1945–46 served as a Red Cross delegate to the United States, which he described to Verena as a place she “defi- nitely ought to experience at length and in depth but just as definitely ought not to settle in.” Verena’s own leanings toward engineering and the outdoors had been repressed by her mother’s social conventions, and she turned to mathematics as a more acceptable escape. She could observe the requisite social appearances outwardly while playing with numbers, invis- ibly, in her head. She obtained her PhD in mathematics from the University of Zürich in 1947 with a thesis in finite group theory under Andreas Speiser, and sailed for America and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton aboard the Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam on January 1, 1948. Verena married Hans-Georg Haefeli in 1942, had a daughter Katarina, and was divorced in 1948. She married

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