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AMS Officers and Committee Members Of®cers and Committee Members Numbers to the left of headings are used as points of reference 2. Council in an index to AMS committees which follows this listing. Primary and secondary headings are: 2.0.1. Of®cers of the AMS 1. Of®cers President Arthur M. Jaffe 1998 1.1. Liaison Committee President-Elect Felix E. Browder 1998 2. Council Vice-Presidents Michael Aschbacher 1998 2.1. Executive Committee of the Council Jennifer Tour Chayes 2000 3. Board of Trustees H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. 1999 4. Committees 4.1. Committees of the Council Secretary Robert M. Fossum 1998 4.2. Editorial Committees Associate Secretaries* Robert J. Daverman 1998 4.3. Committees of the Board of Trustees Susan J. Friedlander 1999 4.4. Committees of the Executive Committee and Board of Bernard Russo 2001 Trustees Lesley M. Sibner 1998 4.5. Internal Organization of the AMS Treasurer Franklin P. Peterson 1998 4.6. Program and Meetings Associate Treasurer B. A. Taylor 1998 4.7. Status of the Profession 4.8. Prizes and Awards 4.9. Institutes and Symposia 2.0.2. Representatives of Committees 4.10. Joint Committees Bulletin Haynes R. Miller 1999 5. Representatives Colloquium Susan J. Friedlander 1998 6. Index Executive Committee John B. Conway 2000 Terms of members expire on January 31 following the year given unless otherwise speci®ed. Executive Committee Steven George Krantz 1998 Executive Committee Andrew M. Odlyzko 1999 Journal of the AMS Benedict H. Gross 2000 Mathematical Reviews Hugh L. Montgomery 1998 1. Of®cers Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Tudor Stefan Ratiu 2000 President Arthur M. Jaffe 1998 Mathematics of President-Elect Felix E. Browder 1998 Computation Lars B. Wahlbin 1997 Vice-Presidents Michael Aschbacher 1998 Proceedings Clifford J. Earle, Jr. 2000 Jennifer Tour Chayes 2000 Transactions and H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. 1999 Memoirs Peter B. Shalen 1999 Secretary Robert M. Fossum 1998 Associate Secretaries Robert J. Daverman 1998 2.0.3. Members-at-Large Susan J. Friedlander 1999 Bernard Russo 2001 Francis Bonahon 1999 Andrew M. Odlyzko 1998 Lesley M. Sibner 1998 David M. Bressoud 1998 Karen Parshall 2000 Treasurer Franklin P. Peterson 1998 Robert L. Bryant 2000 Gail D. L. Ratcliff 1999 Associate Treasurer B. A. Taylor 1998 Gail A. Carpenter 1998 M. Beth Ruskai 2000 John B. Conway 1998 Joel H. Spencer 1999 1.1. Liaison Committee Frederick P. Gardiner 1999 Michael Starbird 2000 Jane M. Hawkins 2000 Karen Vogtmann 1999 All members of this committee serve ex of®cio. Krystyna M. Kuperberg 1998 Robert M. Fossum Chair Arthur M. Jaffe * Only one Associate Secretary at a time is a voting member of the Donald E. McClure Council, namely the cognizant Associate Secretary for the scienti®c Franklin P. Peterson sessions. OCTOBER 1998 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1215 Of®cers and Committee Members 2.1. Executive Committee of the Council Associate Editors for Research Reports Felix E. Browder ex of®cio John M. Franks 1998 Richard M. Schoen 1998 John B. Conway 2000 Eric M. Friedlander 1998 David A. Vogan, Jr. 1998 Robert M. Fossum ex of®cio Barry Mazur 1998 Robert J. Zimmer 1999 Arthur M. Jaffe ex of®cio Daniel Ruberman 1998 Steven George Krantz 1998 Andrew M. Odlyzko 1999 Associate Editors for Research ± Expository Surveys Joel Spencer 2001 John C. Baez 1998 Karen Vogtmann 1999 Bruce K. Driver 1998 Nolan R. Wallach 1998 Kenneth Ribet 1999 3. Board of Trustees 4.2.3. Collected Works Roy L. Adler 2002 Jonathan Alperin 2000 Hyman Bass 1998 Elliott H. Lieb 1999 Michael G. Crandall 2000 Cathleen S. Morawetz 2000 Arthur M. Jaffe ex of®cio Secretary Andy R. Magid 2001 4.2.4. Colloquium Chair Donald E. McClure 1999 Joan S. Birman 2000 Franklin P. Peterson ex of®cio Chair Susan J. Friedlander 1998 B. A. Taylor ex of®cio Stephen Lichtenbaum 1999 4.2.5. Contemporary Mathematics Andreas Blass 2001 4. Committees Chair Dennis DeTurck 1998 Andy R. Magid 1998 Michael Vogelius 2001 4.1. Committees of the Council 4.2.6. Electronic Research Announcements Standing Committees Stuart Antman 1999 4.1.1. Editorial Boards Douglas N. Arnold 2000 Hyman Bass 1998 Chair Eric D. Bedford 1999 Dimitri Burago 2000 Sun-Yung Alice Chang 1998 Andrew J. Granville 1998 Alexandre J. Chorin 1999 David Jerison 2000 Mark Freidlin 1999 Abel Klein 2000 James G. Glimm 2000 Richard S. Palais 1999 Ronald L. Graham 2000 Chair Svetlana R. Katok 2000 4.1.2. Nominating Committee Yitzhak Katznelson 1998 Terms begin on January 1 David Kazhdan 1998 Sylvain E. Cappell 1998 Alexander S. Kechris 1999 Eric M. Friedlander 1998 Alexandre A. Kirillov 1999 Jane P. Gilman 1998 Frances C. Kirwan 1999 Barbara L. Osofsky 1999 Krystyna M. Kuperberg 1999 John C. Polking 1999 Robert K. Lazarsfeld 1998 Paul H. Rabinowitz 2000 Grigorii A. Margulis 1999 Chair James D. Stasheff 1999 Hugh L. Montgomery 2000 Elias M. Stein 2000 Walter David Neumann 2000 Sylvia M. Wiegand 2000 Klaus Schmidt 2000 Richard M. Schoen 1998 4.2. Editorial Committees Masamichi Takesaki 2000 Michael E. Taylor 1998 4.2.1. Abstracts Editorial Committee Thomas H. Wolff 1999 Zhihong (Jeff) Xia 2000 All members of this committee serve ex of®cio. Don Zagier 1998 Robert J. Daverman E®m Zelmanov 2000 Chair Robert M. Fossum Robert J. Zimmer 1998 Susan J. Friedlander Bernard Russo 4.2.7. Graduate Studies in Mathematics Lesley M. Sibner Chair James E. Humphreys 2000 David J. Saltman 1999 4.2.2. Bulletin (New Series) David Sattinger 1998 David Eisenbud 1998 Julius L. Shaneson 1998 Chair Haynes R. Miller 1999 Bhama Srinivasan 2000 4.2.8. Journal of the AMS Associate Editors for Book Reviews William Fulton 1998 Chair Benedict H. Gross 2000 Martin D. Davis 1998 Ruth J. Williams 1999 Carlos E. Kenig 2000 Jim Douglas 1999 Wolfgang Ziller 1998 Bernd Sturmfels 2001 Alex J. Wilkie 2000 2000 Clifford Taubes 2000 1216 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 45, NUMBER 9 Of®cers and Committee Members Associate Editors Roe Goodman 1999 Michael Handel 2001 James G. Arthur 1999 Robert K. Lazarsfeld 1999 Dennis A. Hejhal 1999 Alexander Beilinson 2001 Grigorii A. Margulis 2000 Carl Jockusch, Jr. 2000 Ingrid Daubechies 2000 Curtis McMullen 1999 Coordinating Linda Keen 2001 Michael J. Hopkins 1999 Marina Ratner 2000 David R. Larson 2000 Ehud Hrushovski 2000 Richard M. Schoen 2000 Coordinating Peter W. K. Li 1998 Henryk Iwaniec 1999 Richard P. Stanley 2000 Wei Y. Loh 1999 Sergio Klainerman 1998 W. Hugh Woodin 1999 David Rohrlich 2000 4.2.9. Mathematical Reviews Leslie Saper 1999 AMS staff contact: Jane E. Kister. Stanley A. Sawyer 1998 David Sharp 1999 Jonathan L. Alperin 1997 Lesley M. Sibner 2001 Yuji Ito 2000 Coordinating Lance W. Small 1999 Jean-Louis Loday 1999 Hal L. Smith 1999 Joyce McLaughlin 1999 Christopher D. Sogge 2001 Chair Hugh L. Montgomery 1998 Ronald M. Solomon 1998 Clarence Wilkerson 1998 John Stembridge 2001 4.2.10. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Wolmer V. Vasconcelos 1999 Georgia Benkhart 2000 4.2.14. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Peter Landweber 2000 Mathematics Chair Tudor Stefan Ratiu 2000 Marsha J. Berger 2000 Michael Renardy 1998 Chair Peter S. Constantin 1998 4.2.11. Mathematics of Computation Eitan Tadmor 1999 Andrew M. Odlyzko 1997 4.2.15. Transactions and Memoirs Stanley J. Osher 1998 Rodrigo Banuelos 1999 G. W. Stewart 1998 William Beckner 1998 Chair Lars B. Wahlbin 1997 Bruce Blackadar 2001 Associate Editors Daniel M. Burns 1998 Charles W. Curtis 2001 David D. Boyd 2000 Roswitha MÈarz 1999 Lawrence Ein 1998 James Bramble 2000 Harald Niederreiter 1999 Philip J. Hanlon 1999 Susanne C. Brenner 1998 John E. Osborn 1998 Barbara L. Key®tz 2001 Richard P. Brent 2000 RenÂe Schoof 1998 John Luecke 2000 Joe P. Buhler 2000 Ridgway Scott 1998 John J. Mallet-Paret 1999 Carsten Carstensen 2000 Chi-Wang Shu 1998 Stewart B. Priddy 1999 Arjeh M. Cohen 1999 Frank Stenger 1998 Chair Peter B. Shalen 1999 Howard Elman 2000 Nico M. Temme 1998 Alice Silverberg 1999 Richard Falk 1998 Vidar ThomÂee 2000 Theodore Slaman 2000 Walter Gautschi 1998 Joseph D. Ward 2000 Robert J. Stanton 2001 Daniel W. Lozier 1998 Hugh C. Williams 2000 Chuu-Lian Terng 2000 James N. Lyness 1999 Stephen J. Wright 2000 Robert F. Williams 2001 4.2.12. Notices Editorial Board 4.2.16. Translation from Chinese Editor Anthony Knapp 2000 Sun-Yung Alice Chang Associate Editors S.-Y. Cheng Chair Tsit-Yuen Lam Robert M. Fossum ex of®cio Susan Landau 2000 Tai-Ping Liu Susan J. Friedlander 2000 Andy R. Magid 2000 Chung-Chun Yang Martin Golubitsky 2000 Judith Roitman 2000 Victor W. Guillemin 2000 M. Beth Ruskai 2000 4.2.17. Translation from Japanese David Jerison 2000 Mark E. Saul 2000 Chair Shoshichi Kobayashi 1998 4.2.13. Proceedings Masamichi Takesaki 1998 Dale Alspach 1999 Standing Committees Albert Baernstein 1999 Coordinating Eric D. Bedford 2000 4.2.18. Conformal Geometry and Dynamics Steven R. Bell 2000 Kari Astala 2000 John Burns 1999 Frederick W. Gehring 2000 Suncica Canic 2000 Chair Linda Keen 1999 Ralph Cohen 2000 Misha Lyubich 1999 Christopher Croke 1999 Howard Masur 1998 J. Dodziuk 2000 Mitsuhiro Shishikura 1998 Ron Donagi 1999 Alan Dow 1999 4.2.19. History of Mathematics Chair Clifford J. Earle, Jr. 2000 George E. Andrews 1999 Ronald A. Fintushel 1999 Bruce Chandler 1999 Coordinating James G. Glimm 1999 Karen Parshall 2000 Kenneth R. Goodearl 2000 Chair George B. Seligman 1998 OCTOBER 1998 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1217 Of®cers and Committee Members 4.2.20. Representation Theory 4.3.6. Salaries Anthony Knapp 2000 All members of this committee serve ex of®cio. James Lepowsky 1998 Michael G. Crandall George Lusztig 2000 Chair Donald E.
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