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President's Report
Newsletter Volume 42, No. 5 • SePTemBeR–oCT oBeR 2012 PRESIDENT’S REPORT AWM Prize Winners. I am pleased to announce the winners of two of the three major prizes given by AWM at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). The Louise Hay Award is given to Amy Cohen, Rutgers University, in recognition of The purpose of the Association her “contributions to mathematics education through her writings, her talks, and for Women in Mathematics is her outstanding service to professional organizations.” The Gweneth Humphreys • to encourage women and girls to Award is given to James Morrow, University of Washington, in recognition of study and to have active careers in his “outstanding achievements in inspiring undergraduate women to discover and the mathematical sciences, and • to promote equal opportunity and pursue their passion for mathematics.” I quote from the citations written by the the equal treatment of women and selection committees and extend warm congratulations to the honorees. These girls in the mathematical sciences. awards will be presented at the Prize Session at JMM 2013 in San Diego. Congratulations to Raman Parimala, Emory University, who will present the AWM Noether Lecture at JMM 2013, entitled “A Hasse Principle for Quadratic Forms over Function Fields.” She is honored for her groundbreaking research in theory of quadratic forms, hermitian forms, linear algebraic groups, and Galois cohomology. The Noether Lecture is the oldest of the three named AWM Lectures. (The Falconer Lecture is presented at MathFest, and the Sonia Kovalevsky at the SIAM Annual Meeting.) The first Noether Lecture was given by F. Jessie MacWilliams in 1980 in recognition of her fundamental contributions to the theory of error correcting codes. -
Annual Report
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ANNUAL REPORT July 1,1996-June 30,1997 Main Office Washington Office The Harold Pratt House 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021 Washington, DC 20036 Tel. (212) 434-9400; Fax (212) 861-1789 Tel. (202) 518-3400; Fax (202) 986-2984 Website www. foreignrela tions. org e-mail publicaffairs@email. cfr. org OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS, 1997-98 Officers Directors Charlayne Hunter-Gault Peter G. Peterson Term Expiring 1998 Frank Savage* Chairman of the Board Peggy Dulany Laura D'Andrea Tyson Maurice R. Greenberg Robert F Erburu Leslie H. Gelb Vice Chairman Karen Elliott House ex officio Leslie H. Gelb Joshua Lederberg President Vincent A. Mai Honorary Officers Michael P Peters Garrick Utley and Directors Emeriti Senior Vice President Term Expiring 1999 Douglas Dillon and Chief Operating Officer Carla A. Hills Caryl R Haskins Alton Frye Robert D. Hormats Grayson Kirk Senior Vice President William J. McDonough Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. Paula J. Dobriansky Theodore C. Sorensen James A. Perkins Vice President, Washington Program George Soros David Rockefeller Gary C. Hufbauer Paul A. Volcker Honorary Chairman Vice President, Director of Studies Robert A. Scalapino Term Expiring 2000 David Kellogg Cyrus R. Vance Jessica R Einhorn Vice President, Communications Glenn E. Watts and Corporate Affairs Louis V Gerstner, Jr. Abraham F. Lowenthal Hanna Holborn Gray Vice President and Maurice R. Greenberg Deputy National Director George J. Mitchell Janice L. Murray Warren B. Rudman Vice President and Treasurer Term Expiring 2001 Karen M. Sughrue Lee Cullum Vice President, Programs Mario L. Baeza and Media Projects Thomas R. -
Dec 01 Vers 7.0.1
FOCUS December 2001 FOCUS is published by the Mathematical Association of America in January, February, March, April, May/June, FOCUS August/September, October, November, and December. Editor: Fernando Gouvêa, Colby College; December 2001 [email protected] Volume 21, Number 9 Managing Editor: Carol Baxter, MAA [email protected] Senior Writer: Harry Waldman, MAA [email protected] Please address advertising inquiries to: Inside Carol Baxter, MAA; [email protected] President: Ann E. Watkins, California State University, Northridge 4I’d Rather Go to Mathcamp First Vice-President: Barbara L. Osofsky, By Brenda Fine Second Vice-President: Frank Morgan, Secretary: Martha J. Siegel, Associate Secretary: James J. Tattersall, Treasurer: 7Mathematics and Democracy in Nigeria Gerald J. Porter Executive Director: Tina H. Straley 8 MAA Awarded Half Million Dollar NSF Grant to Support Assessment Associate Executive Director and Director of Publications and Electronic Services: Donald J. Albers 9Short Takes FOCUS Editorial Board: Gerald Alexanderson; Donna Beers; J. Kevin 10 San Diego Program Updates Colligan; Ed Dubinsky; Bill Hawkins; Dan Kalman; Peter Renz; Annie Selden; Jon Scott; 13 Read This! Ravi Vakil. Letters to the editor should be addressed to 14 Reshaping Graduate Education: Looking Back at the Fernando Gouvêa, Colby College, Dept. of Mathematics, Waterville, ME 04901, or by Wisdom of Mina Rees email to [email protected]. By Amy Shell Subscription and membership questions should be directed to the MAA Customer 18 Employment Opportunities Service Center, 800-331-1622; e-mail: [email protected]; (301) 617-7800 (outside U.S. and Canada); fax: (301) 206-9789. Copyright © 2001 by the Mathematical Association of America (Incorporated). -
Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977
Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977 Interviewee: Mina Rees (1902-1997) Interviewer: Uta C. Merzbach Date: March 19, 1969 Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History MERZBACH: I gather from the little bit of background we do have, that you were born in Ohio, but I don't know exactly where you did your basic school work. Did you go to school there or in New York? REES: No, we moved to New York when I was a baby so that I had all of my education in the New York public schools. MERZBACH: New York public schools. I see. And then you went on to Hunter from there and majored in mathematics? REES: That's right. MERZBACH: What made you go into mathematics? REES: I feel as though I should ask you that question. I think, like most of us in the good old days, I went into mathematics because I liked it very much. I had a good time. I was always good at it, of course. But, all through college I was hesitating as to whether I wanted to work in mathematics which, to me, meant being a mathematics teacher or becoming a lawyer. Every semester, I went through this agony of trying to decide whether I should switch to history, which was the only available major that seemed to be appropriate for law. Each time I went through a reassessment, and the decision stayed with mathematics. … MERZBACH: For additional information, contact the Archives Center at 202.633.3270 or [email protected] Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977 2 Mina Rees Interview, March 19, 1969, Archives Center, National Museum of American History You specialized in abstract algebra? REES: Well, I did when I went to the University of Chicago. -
The “Wide Influence” of Leonard Eugene Dickson
COMMUNICATION The “Wide Influence” of Leonard Eugene Dickson Della Dumbaugh and Amy Shell-Gellasch Communicated by Stephen Kennedy ABSTRACT. Saunders Mac Lane has referred to “the noteworthy student. The lives of wide influence” exerted by Leonard Dickson on the these three students combine with mathematical community through his 67 PhD students. contemporary issues in hiring and This paper considers the careers of three of these diversity in education to suggest students—A. Adrian Albert, Ko-Chuen Yang, and Mina that the time is ripe to expand our Rees—in order to give shape to our understanding of understanding of success beyond this wide influence. Somewhat surprisingly, this in- traditional measures. It seems fluence extends to contemporary issues in academia. unlikely that Leonard Dickson had an intentional diversity agenda for his research program at the Introduction University of Chicago. Yet this This paper raises the question: How do we, as a mathe- contemporary theme of diversity Leonard Dickson matical community, define and measure success? Leonard adds a new dimension to our un- produced 67 PhD Dickson produced sixty-seven PhD students over a for- derstanding of Dickson as a role students over a ty-year career and provides many examples of successful model/mentor. forty-year career. students. We explore the careers of just three of these students: A. Adrian Albert, Ko-Chuen Yang, and Mina Rees. A. Adrian Albert (1905–1972) Albert made important advances in our understanding of When Albert arrived at Chicago in 1922, the theory of algebra and promoted collaboration essential to a flour- algebras was among Dickson’s main research interests. -
THE FEBRUARY MEETING in NEW YORK the Two Hundred Eighty
THE FEBRUARY MEETING IN NEW YORK The two hundred eighty-seventh meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held at Columbia University, on Saturday, February 28, 1931, extending through the usual morning and afternoon sessions. The attendance included the following ninety-five members : C. R. Adams, R. B. Adams, R. P. Agnew, A. A. Albert, R. L. Anderson, R. C. Archibald, H. E. Arnold, F. W. Beal, A. A. Bennett, T. C. Benton, A. C. Berry, A. B. Brown, J. H. Bushey, S. S. Cairns, W. D. Cairns, B. H. Camp, G. A. Campbell, Alonzo Church, L. W. Cohen, J. L. Coolidge, E. H. Cutler, M. D. Darkow, F. W. Doermann, J. L. Dorroh, L. P. Eisenhart, J. M. Feld, T. S. Fiske, W. B. Fite, W. W. Flexner, Tomlinson Fort, R. M. Foster, T. C. Fry, J. W. Glover, M. C. Gray, F. C. Hall, S. B. Hansell, L. A. Hazeltine, Robert Henderson, Einar Hille, J. C. Hughes, W. A. Hurwitz, L. W. Hussey, M. H. Ingraham, S. A. Joffe, R. A. Johnson, Edward Kasner, L. S. Kennison, M. V. Kenny, J. R. Kline, M. S. Knebelman, E. A. Knobelauch, J. H. Kusner, A. W. Landers, C. A. Lovell, N. H. McCoy, A. E. Meder, F. H. Miller, A. K. Mitchell, L. T. Moore, Marston Morse, G. W. Mullins, C. A. Nelson, Oystein Ore, L. J. Paradiso, W. O. Pennell, E. L. Post, H. W. Raudenbush, H. W. Reddick, R. G. D. Richardson, J. F. Ritt, H. P. Robertson, Irwin Roman, H. M. Schlauch, C. E. Seely, Wladimir Seidel, Stefan Serghiesco, L. -
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Presented by the Mathematical
1700 1800 1900 2000 Tripos Charlotte Angas Scott Putnam Competition Winners The origins of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos date back at least to the fteenth century. In 1880, Scott was the rst woman to achieve First Class Honours on the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos. As a consequence, women were formally admitted to the The MAA Putnam Competition is a university-level mathematics contest The examination evolved from disputations or wrangles which required students vying for an examinations. She served as a Lecturer in mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge and attended Arthur Cayley’s lectures. In 1885, under his supervision, she took for students in the United States and Canada that began in 1938 with honors degree to debate a thesis of their own choosing before opponents in the presence an external D.Sc. degree with honors from the University of London, becoming the rst British woman to receive a doctorate in any subject and the second European fewer than 200 participants; it has grown to nearly 4000 including many of a moderator who sat on a three legged stool or tripos. The person who ranked rst on the woman, after So a Kovalevskaia, to receive a doctorate in mathematics. She migrated to the United States to become chair of the mathematics department at Bryn international students. In 1996 Ioana Dumitriu of Romania was the rst Tripos was called the Senior Wrangler. The person who ranked last was designated the Wooden Mawr, a position she held for nearly forty years supervising seven doctoral dissertations. She served as co-editor of the American Journal of Mathematics. -
Maine Alumnus, Volume 40, Number 9, June 1959
The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 6-1959 Maine Alumnus, Volume 40, Number 9, June 1959 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 40, Number 9, June 1959" (1959). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 180. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/180 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NEW ENGLAND STORY — ANOTHER REPORT FROM — riu■. c o c c v . ;-H x The F irst N ational Bank of Boston IN ITS 175 th YEAR High on the list of New England’s achieve nearly every nation in the world is represented ments is the scholarly tradition that has grown in the enrollment of the New England colleges up here. New Englanders pioneered education listed below. This June, more than 23,000 stu in America — the first college, the first second dents will graduate from these institutions. ary school, the first public school, the first From these young people will come spiritual, women’s college. Today, New England schools educational, industrial and political leaders of and colleges are respected throughout the tomorrow. Surely what they gain here, by liv world . .. and the nation still looks this way for ing and learning together in a spirit of scholar educational leadership. -
Notices Ofof the American Mathematicalmathematical Society June/July 2019 Volume 66, Number 6
ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) Notices ofof the American MathematicalMathematical Society June/July 2019 Volume 66, Number 6 The cover design is based on imagery from An Invitation to Gabor Analysis, page 808. Cal fo Nomination The selection committees for these prizes request nominations for consideration for the 2020 awards, which will be presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver, CO, in January 2020. Information about past recipients of these prizes may be found at www.ams.org/prizes-awards. BÔCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE The Bôcher Prize is awarded for a notable paper in analysis published during the preceding six years. The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue. CHEVALLEY PRIZE IN LIE THEORY The Chevalley Prize is awarded for notable work in Lie Theory published during the preceding six years; a recipi- ent should be at most twenty-five years past the PhD. LEONARD EISENBUD PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS The Eisenbud Prize honors a work or group of works, published in the preceding six years, that brings mathemat- ics and physics closer together. FRANK NELSON COLE PRIZE IN NUMBER THEORY This Prize recognizes a notable research work in number theory that has appeared in the last six years. The work must be published in a recognized, peer-reviewed venue. Nomination tha efl ec th diversit o ou professio ar encourage. LEVI L. CONANT PRIZE The Levi L. Conant Prize, first awarded in January 2001, is presented annually for an outstanding expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS during the preceding five years. -
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.(~J ARCHIVES MICHIGANSTATEUNIVERSITY- OAKLAND ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~N ~A~~~4!#-A.~~~:w~~I. ~: ?I?~ ~I~~ ~A~~~: K 3070 BUTLER ROAD, ROCHESTER PHONE:_. FE 8-4515 Volume I Number 3 February 1959 As Thomas Huxley wrote, "It a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the UlSnwho has so much as to be out of danger?" *** ENROLIMENTS:Applications for the history- i5 desired, this should be indicated on making Freshman Class of '59 are coming in the application for admission, or by steadily. It appears that this will be a letter to the Director of Student Ser- class of which we can be proud. Uniquely, vices. Application blanks for part-time it will be their privilege to choose the employment may be obtained from the Stu- official MSUOColors--establish some stu- dent Services Office, MSUO,by persons dent policynset the pace for future stu- who have been admitted for the fall term dents, both in honors and tradition. This 1959. is a rare and adventurous opportunity for I: the high school graduates of Oakland and MacombCounties. FULL TN,]: EMPLOYMENT:Applications for * employment are being accepted at MSUO. Probably, there will be few jobs avail- SCHOLARSRIPS:As has been indicated previ- able before Septem.1:>erj however, applica- ously, some scholarships will be available tions may be submitted now. Blanks may for fall term 1959. En'trance scholarships be obtained from Roy J. Alexander, MSUO, (tuition) will be provided by MSUOfor all and should be returned by mail ~ Appli- high schools in Oakland and. Macomb Co'un- cants will be notified for interviews. * ties. The "Scholarship Policy" and appro- priate application forms will be released before the end of February. -
Folder Title List for Series 320 of the Nixon Pre-Presidential Papers
Pre-Presidential Papers of Richard M. Nixon General Correspondence, 1946-1962 Series 320 In the holdings of the: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard Yorba Linda, California 92886 Phone: (714) 983-9120 Fax: (714) 983-9111 E-mail: [email protected] Pre-Presidential Papers of Richard M. Nixon General Correspondence, Series 320 Folder Title Folder Title Box 18 Aandahl, Fred D. Box 19 Aarons, Morris Acker (nee Peterson), Marje Aarons, Robert H. Ackerly, Robert Abbell, Maxwell Ackerman, Adolph J. Abbott, Bud Ackerman, Donald H. Jr. Abbott, Frank H. III (Pres.) Ackerman, J. D. Abbott, George Ackerman, J. Waldo Abbott, George W. Ackerman, Johann S. Abbott, Gordon G. Ackerman, Luther H. Abbott, Stanley W. Ackley, G. David ABC Newspapers Action Books ABC Picture Book Publishing Co. Action, Inc. Abel, Glenn C. Active International Abel, Hazel (Senator) Actors Equity Association Abel, Rudolph Adair, E. Ross (Hon.) Abel, Timothy Adam, Kenneth L. Abele, Homer E. Adamo, Alfred P. Abello, Tom (Capt.) Adamovitch, Alexander (Dr.) Abelman, Max Adamowski, Benjamin Abels, Jules Adams, Alger L. Abercrombie, R. H. Adams, Arthur S. (Dr.) Aberdeen-American News Adams, Benjamin C. (Hon.) Abernathy, Ruth (Miss) Adams, Byron S. Abernethy, Tom (Mrs.) Adams, E. K. (Mrs.) Abplanap, Robert H. Adams, Earl C. Abrahams, Lewis M. Adams, Harry C. Abram, Joe Adams, Howard C. Abrams, Morris Adams, J. Alston Abrams, Norman Adams, John Q. (Mr.) Abramson, Michell N. Jr. Adams, John B. Absentee Voters Bureau (Republican State Adams, John W. Committee, D.C.) Adams, Joseph P. Abshire, F. Presley (Hon.) Adams, Julius Abstine, James Abt, Henry E. -
Pioneer UHF WHUM-TV, Reading, Pa
THE AUTHORITATIVE 1PP ti LÒ,1 NEWS SERVICE FOR MANAGEMENT SEP 4 1956 OF THE VISUAL BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONICS ARTS AND INDUSTRIES MARTIN CODEL, Editor and Publisher ¡Ott ALBERT WARREN, Senior Editor ROBERT CADEL, Business Sranager DAVID LACHENBRUCH, Associate Editor GERSHON FISHBEIN, Trade Reports Editor Editorial Associates: Paul Stone, William J. McMahon, Jr. with ELECTRONICS REPORTS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY RADIO NEWS BUREAU WYATT BLDG. WASHINGTON 5, D.C. TELEPHONE STERLING 3.1755 V 0 L. 12: No. 35 SUMMARY- INDEX OF THE WEEK'S NEWS - September 1, 1956 RADIO SET SALES BOOMING, with home sets up 45% and PHILCO EXPANDS OWN SERVICING, expects to have 16 auto radios in comeback. Year's total may reach factory branches by year's end. Motorola's Bob Gal- 14,000,000 -5 -year record. Reasons for boom (p. 1). vin foresees another round of TV price increases (p. 10). DELAY IN ALLOCATIONS proceeding produced by techni- TOP DEFENSE CONTRACTORS of 1955, as ranked by De- cal "anomalies." Comments deadline shifted to Nov. fense Dept., include firms dominant in electronics fields; 15. FCC sets Sept. 20 for big uhf parley (p. 2). GE ranks 2nd, RCA 22nd, Philco 26th (p. 12). UHF WITH OPERATING LOSS of $49,000 first 2 years, WESTERN UNION BUYS into Teleprompter, investing $750,- WEHT in Evansville area, sold with radio for $820,000. 000. With AB -PT it also buys into Wind Tunnel In- Way cleared for CBS & NBC to get added uhf's (p. 3). strument Co., their third such venture (p. 13). HOUSE COMMITTEES RESUME work on TV.