ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) Notices ofof the American MathematicalMathematical Society January 2019 Volume 66, Number 1 The cover art is from the JMM Sampler, page 84. AT THE AMS BOOTH, JMM 2019 ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) Notices of the American Mathematical Society January 2019 Volume 66, Number 1 © Pomona College © Pomona Talk to Erica about the AMS membership magazine, pick up a free Notices travel mug*, and enjoy a piece of cake. facebook.com/amermathsoc @amermathsoc A WORD FROM... Erica Flapan, Notices Editor in Chief I would like to introduce myself as the new Editor in Chief of the Notices and share my plans with readers. The Notices is an interesting and engaging magazine that is read by mathematicians all over the world. As members of the AMS, we should all be proud to have the Notices as our magazine of record. Personally, I have enjoyed reading the Notices for over 30 years, and I appreciate the opportunity that the AMS has given me to shape the magazine for the next three years. I hope that under my leadership even more people will look forward to reading it each month as much as I do. Above all, I would like the focus of the Notices to be on expository articles about pure and applied mathematics broadly defined. I would like the authors, topics, and writing styles of these articles to be diverse in every sense except for their desire to explain the mathematics that they love in a clear and engaging way. In addition to articles about mathematics, the Photo courtesy of Deanna Haunsperger. Photo courtesy Notices will include articles about mathematics education, the history of mathematics, and challenges and opportunities for early career mathematicians. I will continue many of the outstanding features of the current Notices, build on others, and introduce some quarterly columns that are entirely new. In particular, building on the idea of the Graduate Student Section in- troduced by my predecessor, the Notices will now have an Early Career Section aimed at graduate students, post- docs, and junior mathematicians thinking about what type of career they would like, as well as those who mentor them. This new section is being spearheaded by Associate Editor Angela Gibney, who has tremendous experience mentoring young mathematicians. In the current issue, she gives readers a glimpse of what to expect in this section throughout this year. In addition, the Notices will contain the following new quarterly columns: • “Short Stories” exploring interesting mathematical results that are new or not well known, written by Danny Calegari and Igor Pak. • “GovMath” showcasing mathematical discoveries that have come out of national laboratories and agencies, edited by Emilie Purvine, who is one of my associate editors and a data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. • “Math Reviews News” presenting what's new from the perspective of Math Reviews, written by Edward Dunne, the Executive Editor of Mathematical Reviews®. • “Washington Update” reporting what the AMS Office of Government Relations is doing to connect the Mathe- matics Community to decision makers in Washington, DC, written by Karen Saxe, associate executive director, AMS Office of Government Relations. • “Math Outside the Bubble” exploring mathematics occurring in the arts, literature, film, and other areas where readers might not expect it, written by Sophia D. Merow, special projects editor and Notices assistant. These columns will occur in different issues throughout the year, starting with GovMath in the current issue. There will also be biannual reports on congressional briefings held by the AMS Office of Government Relations together with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the first of which is in the current issue. With all of these different types of articles, sections, and columns, I am hoping there will be enough variety in content and style that every reader can find something that interests them in every issue. Erica Flapan Notices Editor in Chief 2 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 66, NUMBER 1 Notices January 2019 of the American Mathematical Society FEATURED ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 2 A Word from...Erica Flapan 6 Letters to the Editor Early Career 28 An Introduction to the Section Angela Gibney 30 Journaling Robert Lazarsfeld Memorial Tributes 8 32 Alan Baker, 1939–2018 Large Data Analysis David Masser and Lyme Disease 37 Michel Raynaud, 1938–2018 Deanna Needell Luc Illusie 42 Memories of a Grandmaster: Michel Raynaud and the Flattening by Blowing Up Ahmed Abbes 46 Education: A Survey of Signifi cant Developments in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Over the Past Decade Ron Buckmire 53 Opinion: Mathematics Needs AAAS 16 Reinhard Laubenbacher 55 Opinion: Venturing Outside the Silo Iwasawa Theory: Hans G. Kaper and Hans Engler A Climb up the Tower Romyar Sharifi 57 AMS Purchase of MAA Press: The View From Acquisitions Sergei Gelfand and Stephen Kennedy 60 WHAT IS...a cryptographic Boolean function? Lilya Budaghyan and Pantelimon Sta˘nica˘ 64 The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize: Its Orgins and Its Winners Krishnaswami Alladi 74 Book Review: A Comprehensive Course in Analysis William T. Ross 78 Bookshelf 84 79 AMS Bookshelf JMM 2019 Sampler Jesús A. De Loera, Amanda Folsom, 80 Fifty Years of CBMS Regional Conferences Emmanuel Candes, Edray Herber Goins, David M. Bressoud Bryna Kra, Pamela E. Harris, Karen Hunger Parshall, Talithia Williams, Lillian B. Pierce, Henok Mawi Notices of the American Mathematical Society ALSO IN THIS ISSUE, CONT'D IN EVERY ISSUE 110 Community Updates 102 Congressional Briefing: Math Societies to Lawmakers: This Is Why You Should Fund 113 Mathematics People Basic Research Sophia D. 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