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The AMS 1480 Meetings Information 1489 Announcements 1481 Memorial Articles 1490 Authors of Articles 1482 New Publications Offered by the AMS 1490 Reference and Book List 1420 Officers and Committee Members 1490 Deaths of Members of the Society 1483 Opinion 1490 Education 1484 Opportunities 1490 Feature Articles 1484 Prizes and Awards 1491 Forum 1485 Articles on the Profession 1492 Letters to the Editor 1486 Reviews 1492 1487 Surveys 1493 Articles 1489 Tables of Contents 1493 Mathematics History 1489

About the Cover, 26, 245, 318, 420, 534, 658, 781, 918, AMS Meeting in August 2000, 355 1073, 1208, 1367 AMS Menger Awards at the 1999 Intel-International Science and Engineering Fair, 912 Acknowledgment of Contributions, 947 AMS Officers and Committee Members, 1271 AMS Participates in Capitol Hill Exhibition, 918 The AMS AMS Participates in Faculty Preparation Program, 1072 1998 Election Results, 266 AMS Short Courses, 1171 1998 Report of the Committee on Meetings and Confer- AMS Standard Cover Sheet, 60, 270, 366, 698, 972, 1102, ences, 810 1282, 1428 1999 AMS Centennial Fellowships Awarded, 684 (The) Birth of an AMS Meeting, 1029 1999 AMS Election, 58, 267 Bylaws of the American Mathematical Society, 1252 1999 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize, 469 Call for Proposals for 2001 Conferences, 1177, 1331 1999 Lectures, 692 Conference Announced (Summer Mathematics Experience: 1999 Bôcher Prize, 463 A Working Conference on Summer Mathematics Pro- 1999 Notices Index, 1480 grams for Undergraduates), 239 1999 Satter prize, 467 Correction to AMS Election Material, 1073 1999 Steele Prizes, 457 Election of Officers for 2000—Special Section, 927 Acknowledgment of Contributions, 947 Fossum and Peterson Retire from AMS Positions, 564 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Honorary Members of the AMS, 1423 914, 1240 Hope Daly Retires, 1243 AMS $10-$15-$20 Sale, 829 Interview with AMS President , 221 AMS-AAAS Media Fellow Chosen, 1069 AMS E-mail Support for Frequently Asked Questions, 1269; Interview with AMS President , 344 Correction, 1426 Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical AMS Epsilon Program: Call for Applications, 1241 Sciences, 1325 (The) AMS in Retrospect, 516 Joint Testimony by Society Presidents, 801 AMS in the Twentieth Century—Maxime Bôcher, 516; The Kiiti Morita Garden Dedication: The AMS Celebrates Math- Bulletin and the Start of the Proceedings, 764; Frank ematician’s Rich Legacy, 55 Nelson Cole, 860; The Start of the Notices, 1196 Membership Forms, 99, 291, 399, 499, 613, 743, 839, 997, (The) AMS Is Us, 421 1125, 1311

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New Publications Offered by the AMS, 73, 279, 382, 488, Call for Nominations for AWM Schafer Prize, 689 598, 716, 816, 983, 1110, 1289, 1437 Call for Nominations for the Richard C. DiPrima Prize, Officers of the Society 1998 and 1999, 583 1242 Pi Mu Epsilon Awards Student Prizes, 237 CAREER Awards Made, 797 Preliminary List of Candidates for 1999 AMS Elections, 812 CAREER/PECASE Program Guidelines on Web, 687 Reciprocity Agreements, 961 Cathleen Morawetz Receives National Medal of Science, 352 Report of the Treasurer (1998), 1097 China and Russia Tie for First in International Mathemat- (A) Review of “Featured Reviews”, 517 ical Olympiad, 1413 Statistics on Women Mathematicians, 1427 (The) Clay Mathematics Institute, 888 Travel Grants for Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Cen- Conference Announced (Summer Mathematics Experience: tury, August 2000, 1241 A Working Conference on Summer Mathematics Pro- grams for Undergraduates), 239 AMS Short Course Series Copley Medal Awarded to Lighthill, 51 Nonlinear Control (San Antonio), 184 Correction to AMS Election Material, 1073 Quantum Computation: The Grand Mathematical Chal- Correction to Article on Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, lenge for the Twenty-First Century and the Millennium 1419 (Washington, DC), 1171, 1344, 1494 D’Angelo Receives 1999 Bergman Prize, 573 Short Course on Environmental Mathematics (Washington, Deadlines and Target Dates at the NSF, 798 DC), 1176, 1344, 1494 Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 242 Departments Plan to Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 55 AMS Warehouse Sale DMS Recommends Funding for Three Institutes, 693 AMS $10-$15-$20 Sale, 829 Draft NCTM Standards Discussed, 475 Edge Summer Program, 1415 Announcements Everett Pitcher Lectures, 578 14th Annual BMS Department Chairs’ Colloquium, 1073 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize Awarded, 797 1999 AMS Centennial Fellowships Awarded, 684 Fossum and Peterson Retire from AMS Positions, 564 1999 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize, 469 Fulbright Awards for 2000-2001 for U.S. Faculty and Pro- 1999 Arnold Ross Lectures, 692 fessionals, 688 1999 Bôcher Prize, 463 Grundman Named Bunting Scholar, 51 1999 Heineman Prize Awarded, 1069 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded, 685 1999 Intel Science Talent Search Winners Announced, 1070 Hope Daly Retires, 1243 1999 NSF-CBMS Regional Conferences, 239 Humboldt Foundation Offers Fellowships, 1071 1999 Rollo Davidson Prizes, 686 IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, 240 1999 Satter Prize, 467 IMA Announces Spring and Summer Programs, 472 1999 Steele Prizes, 457 International Center for Mathematical Sciences 1999 Sci- AAAS Fellows Elected, 237 entific Program, 472 Adler and Jackiw Receive Dirac Medals, 574 Joint Testimony by Society Presidents, 801 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Kohn Receives First Kleinman Prize, 1068 914, 1240 Lebowitz Receives AAAS Scientific Freedom and Respon- AMS-AAAS Media Fellow Chosen, 1069 sibility Award, 911 AMS Epsilon Program: Call for Applications, 1241 London Mathematical Society Prizes Awarded, 1238 AMS Meeting in August 2000, 355 : National Medal of Science, 573 AMS Menger Awards at the 1999 Intel-International Science Lovász and Stein Share 1999 Wolf Prize, 566 and Engineering Fair, 912 MAA Writing Awards Presented, 1238 AMS Participates in Capitol Hill Exhibition, 918 Maldacena, Shor, Silverstein, and Weeks Receive Macarthur AMS Participates in Faculty Preparation Program, 1072 Fellowships, 890 AMS Report on Doctoral Mathematics Departments, 1418 Maria Mitchell Award, 360 Applications for Travel Grants to ICME-9 Are Available, 916 Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications Throughout Association for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Ed- the Curriculum, 473 ucation Formed, 474 Mathematicians Elected to American Academy of Arts and AWM Announces Mentoring Travel Grants for Women, 473 Sciences, 911 AWM Mentoring Travel Grants for Women, 916 Mathematicians in Mathematics Education Project, 693 AWM Prizes Presented in San Antonio, 568, 473 Mathematics Awareness Month, 358 AWM Travel Grants for Women, 915 Mathematics Genealogy Project, 918 AWM Workshops for Graduate Students and Postdocs, 688 MathSciNet Version 5 Released, 1417 B. H. Neumann Awards Given, 1239 Millennium Mathematics Project, 1243 BMS Report on Institutes, 1417 NAS Mathematics Award Nominations Sought, 799 Book Receives Award, 1070 National Academy of Engineering Elections, 913 Call for Descriptions of Mathematics Ph.D. Programs, 693 National Academy of Sciences Elections, 797 Call for Nominations for AWM Hay Award, 689 National Academy Report on Evaluating Research, 691

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National Conference on Graduate Education, 54 Special Minisymposium at ICIAM 99, 240 National Institute for Science Education (NISE) Fellowships, Staff Changes at CSMEE, 1245 358 Stewart Awarded Bauer Prize, 574 National Medal of Science Nominations Sought, 473 Summer 2000 Research for U.S. Graduate Students in Sci- (The) National Registry of Women in Science, 54 ence and Engineering, 1414 National Research Council Research Assistantship Pro- Supplement to List of New Members of National Academy grams, 1414 of Engineering, 1069 Nazarov Awarded 1999 Salem Prize, 1068 Travel Grants for Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Cen- New NSF FastLane Implementation, 692 tury, August 2000, 1241 New NSF Institute Competition Possible, 1241 Travel Grants for Women, 576 News Flash: Proof Announced of Taniyama-Shimura-Weil Travel Grants for Women in Mathematics, 240 Conjecture, 863 Travel/Host Grants for Research, 239 News from the Banach Center, 577 Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards Presented, 1412 News from the IMA, 1071 UK Symposia Web Site, 1245 News from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathemat- Update on Data Disclosure Law, 1244 ics, 1416 USA Mathematical Olympiad, 913 NIST Postdoctoral Research Associates Program, 577 Walter Schachermayer Receives Wittgenstein Award, 792 NRC-Ford Foundation Minority Fellowships Awarded, 238 Weidman Appointed BMS Director, 1073 NRC-Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Mi- Yuri Manin Awarded Rolf Schock Prize, 910 norities, 1414 NSA Grant and Sabbatical Programs, 915 Authors of Articles NSF Announces Program for Graduate Teaching Fellows, Adams, Colin, 878 576 Artigue, Michèle, 1377 NSF Announces Midcareer Methodological Opportunities, Baez, John C., 659 916 Bender, Helmut, 543 NSF Announces Program on Large Scientific and Software Berger, Marcel, 1387 Data Set Visualization, 687 Beschler, Edwin F., 659 NSF-Funded Institutes Recompetition, 54 Blank, Brian, 1233 NSF Graduate Fellowships, 1241 Boneh, Dan, 203 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Announced, 797 Borel, Armand, 422, 440 NSF Keeps Two Existing Institutes and Funds a Third, 800 Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre, 1387 NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Bozeman, Sylvia T., 347 ships, 915 Bressoud, David, 637 NSF Report Examines Foreign Doctorates’ Plans to Remain Cartan, Henri, 633 in , 475 Cartier, Pierre, 440 NSF to Sponsor Conference on Doctoral Programs, 242 ONR Young Investigator Program, 798 Casselman, Bill, 43, 1402 Parisi Receives Dirac Medal, 1412 Cassels, J. W. S., 1230 Phillipe Tondeur Appointed DMS Director, 473 Chandrasekharan, Komaravolu, 440 Pi Mu Epsilon Awards Student Prizes, 237 Chern, Shiing-Shen, 440 Presidential Early Career Awards Announced, 574 Choquet-Bruhat, Yvonne, 1387 Prize for Achievement in Information-Based , Coates, John, 1221 240 Crighton, David G., 1226 Prizes of the CRM, Montréal, 1068 Darmon, Henri, 1397 Program Manager Sought for AFOSR, 1242 Davidoff, Giuliana, 552 Project NExT: New Experiences in Teaching, 359 Davis, Paul W., 224, 894 Prototype of Mathematics Digital Library Released, 578 Dubinsky, Ed, 555, 1062 Putnam Prizes Awarded, 237 Durrett, Rick, 674 Request for Proposals for 2000 NSF-CBMS Regional Con- Eastwood, Michael, 1368 ferences, 239 Eckmann, Beno, 520 Robert May Receives Balzan Prize, 353 Feit, Walter, 543 Rockafellar Wins von Neumann Prize, 910 Finn, Robert, 770 Royal Society of Canada Fellows, 1068 Friedlander, Susan, 1358 Royal Society of London Fellows, 1069 Goldreich, Oded, 1209 Scholarships Funded from H-1B Visa Fees, 802 Goroff, Daniel, 680 Scientists Weigh In against Data Disclosure Law, 690 Griffiths, Phillip A., 1197 SIAM von Kármán Prize Awarded, 911 Gross, Leonard, 659 Sloan Dissertation Fellowships, 1069 Howe, Roger, 881 Sloan Dissertation Fellowships Program to End, 692 Hughes, Rhonda J., 347 Sloan Fellows Announced, 685 Iyanaga, Shokichi, 440

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Jackson, Allyn, 39, 221, 329, 352, 355, 344, 528, 560, 564, sus), 317; Mary Beth Ruskai (A Review of “Featured Re- 669, 679, 782, 792, 888, 1050 views”), 517 Jerison, David, 1059 Counterpoint: Damon Scott (The Immigration Law of 1990 Kasman, Alex, 1407 and Its Effects), 767 Katz, Nicholas M., 338 In My Opinion: Susan Landau (Compute and Conjecture), Knapp, Anthony W., 434 189; Robert J. Daverman (The AMS Is Us), 421; Stephen Kostant, Bertram, 659 G. Krantz (Ask and You Shall Receive...), 629; Andy Kuperberg, Krystyna, 1035 Magid (The Triumph of Research), 765; Susan Friedlan- Lepowsky, James, 17 der (The Birth of an AMS Meeting), 1029; Mary Beth Lewis, D. J., 1355 Ruskai (Opinion and Responsibility), 1349 Lindenstrauss, Joram, 17 Letters to the Editor, 6, 190, 318, 518, 630, 766, 1030, Magid, Andy, 1041 1349 Manin, Yuri I., 17 Marle, Charles-Michel, 1387 Conferences of the AMS Maxwell, James W., 224, 894 Call for Proposals for 2001 Conferences, 1177, 1331 McMurran, Sahwnee, 214 Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Milnor, John, 17 Sciences (1999), 184, 312, 416, 512, 624 Miranda, Rick, 192 Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Morawetz, Cathleen Synge, 9 Sciences (2000), 1325, 1344, 1494 Nelson, Edward, 659 Summer Research Institute on Smooth and Osserman, Robert, 868 Applications, 184, 312, 416, 512, 624, 760, 856 Palais, Richard, 647 Von Neumann Conference, Symposium on Arithmetic Fun- damental Groups and Noncommutative Algebra, 405, Pedley, T. J., 1226 416, 512, 624, 760, 856 Propp, James, 637 Raynaud, Michel, 864 Conferences (Other) Remick, Kinda M., 224, 894 Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM), 184, Revuz, André, 1378 312, 416 , 512, 624, 760, 856 Rockmore, Dan, 349, 874 Ross, Arnold E., 1032 Corrections, 476, 693, 802, 1073, 1419, 1426 Saul, Mark, 1217 Shimura, Goro, 428 Counterpoint Snell, J. Laurie, 874 The Immigration Law of 1990 and Its Effects (Damon Scott), Solomon, Ronald, 543 767 Strichartz, Robert S., 1199 Tate, John, 338 Deaths of Members of the Society Tattersall, James, 214 Abellanas, Pedro, 1413 Taylor, Jean E., 27 Abian, Alexander, 1070 Ullman, Daniel H., 789 Albrecht, Felix R., 575 Varadarajan, V. S., 448 Alexander, Herbert, 1239 Vergne, Michèle, 659 Anderson, R. Lucille, 1413 Wiegand, Sylvia M., 27 Bailey, Duane W., 575 Wightman, Arthur S., 659 Bernard, Walter, 238 Wu, H., 535 Bower, Julia Wells, 686 Yudovich, Victor, 1358 Carroll, Charles L., 686 Zabell, S. L., 47 Crawford, John David, 575 Zworski, Maciej, 319 Cunkle, Charles H., 686 De Iongh, Johan, 1239 Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals, 922; Deuber, Walter A., 1413 Update, 1250 Drobot, Stefan, 51 Dunkels, Andrejs, 575 Book List, 56, 243, 361, 493, 579, 695, 805, 919, 1074, Eberlein, Patricia James, 51 1246, 1420 Flato, Moshe, 575 Fontrier, Gabriel, 238 Classified Advertisements, 83, 285, 394, 478, 609, Franic, Ivan, 686 736, 837, 993, 1118, 1296, 1453 Gale, Carolyn Spencer, 686 Goldberg, Charles H., 686 Commentary Gonzalez, Mario O., 686 Another Opinion: Phillip A. Griffiths (A “Rotator Crisis” at Gray, Alfred, 51 NSF), 5; David S. Moore (Statistical Methods in the Cen- Hewitt, Edwin, 1070

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Holvoet, Roger, 686 in the Twentieth Century—The Start of the Notices), Iwanik, Anzelm, 51 1196; (International Cooperation), (In This Issue—Re- Iwasawa, Kenkichi, 575; (Memorial Article, 1221) search News), 1348 Jones, F. Burton, 1413 Kister, Jane E. (The Evolution of Mathematical Reviews: Jones, Marshall Phillip, 686 Where Now?), 628 Jucovid, Ernest, 51 Keepler, Manuel, 1239 Education Kelly, Paul J., 686 AMS Participates in Faculty Preparation Program, 1072 Krehbiel, Howard E., 913 AMS Report on Doctoral Mathematics Departments, 1418 Krein, Selim, 1413 Association for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Kyner, Walter Thomas, 913 Education Formed, 474 Lax, Anneli, 1413 Call for Descriptions of Mathematics Ph.D. Programs, 693 Lay, L. Clark, 575 Draft NCTM Standards Discussed, 475 Leray, Jean, 238 Forum: Missing Opportunities, 1355 Lesokhin, M. M., 575 Forum: Vitality of Some Very Old Ideas, 1032 Lichnerowicz, André, 1413; (Memorial Article, 1387) Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics (A Book Mantel, Rolf R., 1239 Review), 881 McCormick, Clyde T., 1413 Mathematicians in Mathematics Education Project, 693 McMullen, John R., 1239 Millennium Mathematics Project, 1244 Mellender, James, 575 National Conference on Graduate Education, 54 Miser, Hugh J., 1070 NSF Announces Program for Graduate Teaching Fellows, Moïse, Edwin E., 575 576 Moore, Rufus A., 686 Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers, 535 Nag, Subhashis, 686 Smoothing the Transition to Graduate Education, 347 Navarro, Francisco J., 686 (The) Summer Mathematics Experience: A Working Con- Niven, Ivan, 913 ference on Summer Mathematics Programs for Under- Persek, Stephen C., 686 graduates, 239 Phillips, Ralph S., 238 (The) Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at the Uni- Pomraning, Gerald C., 1413 versity Level, 1378 Popenda, Jerzy, 1239 To Teach, per Chance, to Dream, 874 Prudnikov, Anatolii P., 575 Rosen, William G., 686 Election Information (AMS) Rosenlicht, Maxwell, 575 1998 Election Results, 266 Sarapuka, Peter K., 1070 1999 AMS Election, 58, 267 Shreve, Darrell R., 686 Election of Officers for 2000—Special Section, 927 Slook, Thomas H., 238 Preliminary List of Candidates for 1999 AMS Election, 812 Spears, Otis S., 1413 Sullivan, Sister Helen M., 575 Employment Center Sutton, P. P., 913 Mathematical Sciences Employment Center, 1013, 1179 Szo˝kefalvi-Nagy, Béla, 575 Mathematical Sciences Employment Center Forms, 1018, Tanimoto, Taffee, 686 1184, 1320 Taylor, Angus Ellis, 686 Tischler, David C., 686 Feature Articles Turrittin, Hugh Lonsdale, 686 Analysis on (Robert S. Strichartz), 1199 Twersky, Victor, 575 André Weil and (), 422 Young, Gail S., 1239 André Weil and the Foundations of (Michel Raynaud), 864 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 1997–1998, 246 André Weil As I Knew Him (Goro Shimura), 428 André Weil: Memories of a Long Friendship (Henri Cartan), Editorial Page 633 Jackson, Allyn (Public Awareness), 316; (The Notices as a Aperiodic Dynamical (Krystyna Kuperberg), 1035 Forum for Debate), 1028; (At the Joint Meetings—Smith- AWM in the 1990s: A Recent History of the Association for sonian Exhibits), 1348 Women in Mathematics (Jean E. Taylor and Sylvia M. Wie- Knapp, Anthony W. (Copyright Policies), 4; (Small Steps), gand), 27; Correction to AWM Article, 802 188; (In This Issue—André Weil), (About the Cover— Capillary Surface Interfaces (Robert Finn), 770 Weil at the Time of Winning the Kyoto Prize), 420; (The Differential Galois Theory (Andy R. Magid), 1041 AMS in Retrospect) (AMS in the Twentieth Century— (The) Dream of a Swedish : The Mittag Lef- Maxime Bôcher), 516; (AMS in the Twentieth Century— fler Institute (Allyn Jackson), 1050 The Bulletin and the Start of the Proceedings), 764; (AMS From Schwarz to Pick to Ahlfors and Beyond (Robert Os- in the Twentieth Century—Frank Nelson Cole), 860; (AMS serman), 868

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How the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture Was Solved Berry, Michael V. (Los Angeles, CA), 755, 853, 1009, 1156, (David Bressoud and James Propp), 637; Correction to 1337, 1475 Article on Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, 1419 Bisch, Dietmar (Santa Barbara, CA), 1154, 1334, 1472 (The) IHÉS at Forty (Allyn Jackson), 329 Bollobás, Béla (Charlotte, NC), 306, 412, 508, 620, 750, Instabilities in Fluid Motion (Susan Friedlander and Victor 847, 1005, 1135, 1333 Yudovich), 1358 Brezis, Haim (Los Angeles, CA), 1009, 1156, 1337, 1475 Interview with Henri Cartan (Allyn Jackson), 782 Burton, Robert (Salt Lake City, UT), 507, 618, 746, 844, 1003, Kerosinka: An Episode in the History of Soviet Mathemat- 1131 ics (Mark Saul), 1217 Caflisch, Russel (Buffalo, NY), 114, 300, 408, 504, 616 Linear Systems of Plane Curves (Rick Miranda), 192 Chang, Sun-Yung Alice (Washington, DC), 751, 850, 1006, (The) Mathematical Work of the 1998 Fields Medalists 1135, 1472 (James Lepowsky, Joram Lindenstrauss, Yuri I. Manin, Chayes, Jennifer (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 304, 410, and ), 17 506, 617, 746 Mathematical Treasures of the Smithsonian Institution Cohen, Paula (, NY), 119, 621, 756, 853, 1010, (Allyn Jackson), 528 1158, 1338, 1476 Mathematics to the Rescue (Retiring Presidential Address) Colding, Tobias (Odense, Denmark), 755, 852, 1009, 1156, (), 9 1336, 1474 Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers Connes, Alain (Los Angeles, CA), 853, 1010, 1156, 1337, (H. Wu), 535 1475 Pseudorandomness (Oded Goldreich), 1209 Craig, Walter (Lowell, MA), 118, 307, 413, 509, 618, 754, Resonances in Physics and Geometry (Maciej Zworski), 319 851, 1007, 1154, 1335, 1472 (The) Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at the Uni- Donoho, David Leigh (Los Angeles, CA), 755, 853, 1010, versity Level (Michèle Artigue), 1378 1156, 1337, 1475 To Teach, per Chance, to Dream (Daniel Rockmore and Dranishnikov, Alexander N. (Gainesville, FL), 109 J. Laurie Snell), 874 Eastwood, Michael (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 304, 506, Topology, Algebra, Analysis—Relations and Missing Links 618, 746 (Beno Eckmann), 520 Fefferman, Charles L. (Los Angeles, CA), 853, 1010, 1156, Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem (Dan 1337, 1475 Boneh), 203 Freedman, Michael H. (Los Angeles, CA), 1156, 1337, 1475 Variations on the de Rham Complex (Michael Eastwood), Frenkel, Igor (Las Vegas, NV), 113, 298, 408, 504 1368 Fulton, William (Denton, TX), 115, 301, 409, 505, 617 (The) Visualization of Mathematics: Towards a Mathemat- Gonzalez Acuna, Francisco (Denton, TX), 115, 301, 409, 505, ical Exploratorium (Richard S. Palais), 647 617 Graham, Ronald L. (Denton, TX), 115, 301, 409, 505, 617, Forum 853; (Los Angeles, CA), 1009, 1156, 1337, 1475 Impact of the Government Performance and Results Act Greene, Brian (Washington, DC), 849, 1006, 1134; (New (Phillip A. Griffiths), 1197 York, NY), 1338, 1476 Missing Opportunities (D. J. Lewis), 1355 Grimshaw, Roger (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 304, 410, 506, Rochester Four Years Later: From Crisis to Opportunity 618, 746 (Douglas C. Ravenel), 861 Grossberg, Stephen (Providence, RI), 1132 Vitality of Some Very Old Ideas (Arnold E. Ross), 1032 Hale, Jack K. (Denton, TX), 115, 301, 409, 505, 617 Hales, Thomas C. (Washington, DC), 850, 1006, 1135 Invited Speakers Håstad, Johan (Odense, Denmark), 1336, 1474 Alberts, Bruce (Washington, DC), 1134 Hernandez-Lerma, Onesimo (Denton, TX), 115, 301, 409, Alexeev, Valery (Charlotte, NC), 306, 412, 508, 620, 750, 847, 505, 618 1005, 1135, 1333 Hitchin, Nigel J. (Odense, Denmark), 755, 852, 1009, 1156, Arthur, James G. (Los Angeles, CA), 755, 852, 1009, 1156, 1336, 1474 1337, 1475 Hofer, Helmut H. W. (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1009, 1156, Aspinwall, Paul (Lafayette, LA), 1474 1337, 1475 Audin, Michele M. (Buffalo, NY), 114, 300, 408, 504, 616 Huisken, Gerhard (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 304, 410, Barbasch, Dan M. (Providence, RI), 116, 305, 411, 507, 619, 506, 618, 746 748, 845, 1004, 1132 Its, Alexander R. (Washington, DC), 751, 850, 1006, 1135 Bates, Peter (Notre Dame, IN), 1008, 1154, 1335, 1473 Jaffe, Arthur M. (Washington, DC), 412, 509, 621, 751, 850, Bautista, Raymundo (Denton, TX), 115, 301, 409, 505, 617 1006, 1135 Beilinson, Alexander (Urbana, IL), 112, 503; (Los Angeles, Jones, Vaughan (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 305, 410, 506, CA), 1009, 1156, 1337, 1475 618, 746 Bellow, Alexandra (Urbana, IL), 112, 503 Kapovich, Michael (Salt Lake City, UT), 844, 1003, 1131 Berestycki, Henri (Providence, RI), 116, 305, 411, 507, 619, Kapranov, Mikhail (Austin, TX), 117, 306, 411, 508, 619, 748, 845, 1004, 1132 748, 847, 1004, 1132, 1332

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Karp, Richard M. (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1009, 1156, Steel, John (Las Vegas, NV), 114, 298, 408, 504, 615 1337, 1475 Suciu, Alexander I. (New York, NY), 853, 1010, 1158, 1338, Klainerman, Sergiu (Los Angeles, CA), 853, 1010, 1156, 1476 1337, 1475 Sulem, Catherine (Austin, TX), 117, 306, 411, 508, 619, Kontsevich, Maxim (Los Angeles, CA), 1156, 1337 748, 847, 1004, 1132, 1332 Krichever, Igor (Urbana, IL), 112, 503 Sullivan, Dennis P. (Los Angeles, CA), 1156, 1338, 1476 Kuperberg, Gregory J. (Las Vegas, NV), 113, 298, 408, 615 Taubes, Clifford (Los Angeles, CA), 1010, 1156, 1338, 1476 Lawler, Gregory F. (Gainesville, FL), 109 Taylor, Jean E. (Los Angeles, CA), 1338, 1476 Lax, Peter D. (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1010, 1156, 1337, Thomas, Robin (Lafayette, LA), 1474 1475 Thompson, John G. (Gainesville, FL), 109 Levin, Simon A. (Los Angeles, CA), 1156, 1337, 1475 Thurston, William P. (Los Angeles, CA), 1156, 1338, 1476 Lieb, Elliott (Odense, Denmark), 1336, 1474 Toro, Tatiana (Austin, TX), 117, 306, 411, 508, 619, 748, Loss, Michael P. (Gainesville, FL), 109, 504 847, 1004, 1132, 1332 Lovász, László (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1010, 1156, Trudinger, Neil (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 305, 410, 506, 1337, 1475 746 Lutwak, Erwin (Lowell, MA), 118, 307, 413, 509, 621, 754, Uhlenbeck, Karen (Odense, Denmark), 1474; (Los Angeles, 851, 1007, 1154, 1335, 1472 CA), 756, 853, 1010, 1156, 1338, 1476 Lyubich, M. (Washington, DC), 751, 850, 1006, 1135 Varadhan, S. R. S. (Los Angeles, CA), 853, 1010, 1156, 1338, Mattila, Pertti (Odense, Denmark), 755, 852, 1009, 1156, 1476 1336, 1474 Villegas, Fernando Rodriguez (Lafayette, LA), 1474 McMullen, Curtis T. (Washington, DC), 850, 1006, 1135; Voiculescu, Dan (Odense, Denmark), 755, 852, 1009, 1156, (Odense, Denmark), 755, 852, 1009, 1156, 1336, 1474 1337, 1474 Mischaikow, Konstantin M. (Charlotte, NC), 306, 412, 508, Voronov, Alexander (Buffalo, NY), 114, 300, 408, 504, 616 620, 750, 847, 1005, 1133, 1333 Wentworth, Richard (Salt Lake City, UT), 618, 746, 844, 1003, Mumford, David (Providence, RI), 116, 305, 411, 507, 619, 1131 748, 845, 1004; (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1010, 1156, Witten, Edward (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1010, 1156, 1337, 1475 1338, 1476 Nabutovsky, Alexander (Lowell, MA), 118, 307, 413, 509, Wooley, Trevor (Urbana, IL), 112, 503 621, 754, 847, 1007, 1154, 1335, 1472 Yau, Sing-Tung (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1010, 1156, Nementhi, Andras (Notre Dame, IN), 1008, 1155, 1335, 1338, 1476 1473 Yu, Guoliang (Providence, RI), 116, 305, 411,507, 619, 748, Novikov, Sergey (New York, NY), 1010, 1158, 1338, 1476 845, 1004, 1132 Papanicolaou, George C. (Washington, DC), 849, 1006, 1134 Zagier, Don B. (Los Angeles, CA), 1156, 1338, 1476 Penrose, Roger (Washington, DC), 412, 509, 621, 751, 850, Zuckerman, Gregg J. (Buffalo, NY), 114, 300, 408, 504, 616 1006, 1135 Zworski, Maciej (Salt Lake City, UT), 507, 618, 746, 844, Radin, Charles (Notre Dame, IN), 1008, 1155, 1335, 1473 1003, 1131 Rallis, Steven (Urbana, IL), 112, 503 Renardy, Michael (Lafayette, LA), 1474 Letters to the Editor Roe, John (Austin, TX), 117, 306, 411, 508, 619, 748, 847, Baer, Robert M. (Comments on “Science Wars” Citations), 1004, 1132, 1332 630 Rubin, Karl (Washington, DC), 1471 Beschler, Edwin F. (Beschler Replies), 191 Rubinstein, Hyam (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 305, 410, 506, Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre (Buying the Bois-Marie Estate), 630 618, 746 Carlton, David (NSF Funding Not the “Most Promising In- Rudakov, Alexei N. (Odense, Denmark), 755, 852, 1009, vestment”), 6 1156, 1337, 1474 Casazza, Peter (An Army of Mathematicians), 1351 Ruskai, Mary Beth (Lowell, MA), 118, 307, 413, 509, 621, Chaffee, James (Another View of Laurent Schwartz and Viet- 754, 851, 1007, 1154, 1335, 1472 nam), 7 Sadun, Lorenzo A. (Las Vegas, NV), 113, 298, 408, 504, 615 Charlwood, Kevin (Why the Sky Is Falling), 631 Sarnak, Peter (Los Angeles, CA), 853, 1010, 1156, 1337, 1475 Cowling, Michael (Editorial Efficiency Is an Ethical Issue), Sattinger, David (Notre Dame, IN), 1008, 1155, 1335, 1473 632 Schoen, Richard M. (Melbourne, Australia), 115, 305, 410, DeLong, R. Peter (Change Terminology at the Turn of the 506, 618, 746 Century), 766 Shelah, Saharon (Los Angeles, CA), 1475 Evens, Leonard (Textbooks Could Be Free), 518 Shor, Peter W. (Los Angeles, CA), 1010, 1156, 1338, 1475 Fendel, Dan (Comments on Howe’s Review of Ma’s Book), Sinai, Yakov (Charlotte, NC), 117, 306, 412, 508, 620, 750, 1354 847 1005, 1133, 1333; (Los Angeles, CA), 756, 853, 1010, Frohardt, Daniel (The Role of Statistics in the Census), 1156, 1338, 1475 1351 Smith, Jeff (Buffalo, NY), 114, 300, 408, 504, 616 Harrison, Dennis E. (AMS and MAA Should Merge), 518 Stanley, Richard (Los Angeles, CA), 853, 1010, 1156, 1338, Hermann, Robert (Browder’s Comments on Graduate Ed- 1475 ucation), 630

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Humpherys, Jeffrey (Consider Price When Adopting Text- Bridson, Martin (London Mathematical Society Junior White- books), 190 head Prize), 1239 Hunt, Bruce (Source of Pictures Like the March Cover), 766 Browder, Felix, Interview with AMS President, 344 Jaffe, David (More about the March Cover), 518 Bryan, Jim (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 James, I. M. (J. W. Alexander), 1354 Burchard, Almut (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Landsman, N. P. (Handle Human Rights Abuses Even-Hand- Burns, David (London Mathematical Society Junior Berwick edly), 518 Prize), 1239 Leindler, László (Support Free Textbooks), 766 Calegari, Danny (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Maher, Richard J. (Dealing with Reduced Enrollments), Cartan, Henri (Interview with), 782 1350 Cartwright, Mary (1900–1998) (Memorial Article), 214 Marden, Albert (More about Visualization), 1352 Cerf, Raphael (1999 Rollo Davidson Prize), 686 Nekováˆr, Jan (More History of the Chowla-Selberg For- Chen, Jingyi (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 mula), 190 Chinta, Gautam (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Reinthaler, Joan (Pressure to Study Calculus in High School), Chow, Carson C. (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 1351 Christodoulou, Demetrios (1999 Bôcher Prize), 463 Rosinger, Elemer E. (Warnings about Forecasting Trends), Clyde, Merlise (CAREER Award), 797 6 Corn, Patrick K. (Putnam Prize), 237 Ruelle, David (Achievements of ), 318 Crandall, Michael G. (1999 Steele Prize), 460 Schafly, Roger (Census, Sampling, and Politics), 766 Cruz-Uribe, David Vicente (NRC-Ford Foundation Minority Shepp, Larry (Authors Can Publicize History of Papers on Fellowship), 238 Web), 318 D’Angelo, John P. (1999 Bergman Prize), 573 Strauss, Walter (Irving Segal and Nonlinear Hyperbolic Deift, Percy Alec (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 PDEs), 1352 Demmel, James W. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- Theocharis, Theo (Impostures Intellectuelles and Faris’s Re- tion), 912 view), 190 Develin, Mike L. (Putnam Prize), 237 Wolgemuth, Andrew (Discovery and Proof—Right from the Devlin, Keith (Elected AAAS Fellow), 237 Start), 1350 Diffie, Whitfield (1999 Communication Policy Research Wu, F. Y. (Exactly Solvable Models in Statistical Mechanics), Award), 1070 1353 Donaldson, Simon (London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize), 1238 Mathematicians Dwork, Bernard (Memorial Article), 338 Adler, Stephen (Dirac Medal), 574 Farb, Benson (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Allen, Brian (AMS-AAAS Media Fellow), 1069 Ferguson, Joe (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 André Weil and Algebraic Topology, 422 Fogelson, Aaron L. (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 André Weil and the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, 864 Fortin, Michel (Royal Society of Canada Fellow), 1068 André Weil As I Knew Him, 428 Fossum (Robert) and Peterson (Franklin) Retire from AMS Antman, Stuart S. (SIAM von Kármán Prize), 911 Positions, 564 (The) Apprenticeship of a Mathematician—Autobiography Frank Nelson Cole (AMS in the Twentieth Century), 860 of André Weil (A Book Review), 448 Friesecke, Gero (London Mathematical Society Junior White- Askey, Richard A. (National Academy of Sciences Election), head Prize), 1239 797 From Schwarz to Pick to Ahlfors and Beyond, 868 Bakalov, Bojko N. (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Gelb, Anne (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Ball, John M. (SIAM von Kármán Prize), 911 Gibbons, Gary Williams (Royal Society of London Fellow), Baranovsky, Vladimir (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 1069 Barvinok, Alexander (Presidential Early Career Award), 574 Gibson, Nathan L. (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 Benyamini, Yoav (MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1238 Gordon, Cameron (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 Berlekamp, Elwyn R. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Goriely, Alain (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 tion), 797 Gowers, William Timothy (The Mathematical Work of the Bertelson, Melanie (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 1998 Fields Medalists), 17; (Royal Society of London Fel- Biss, Daniel (1999 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize), 469 low), 1069 Bleecker, David (MAA George Pólya Award), 1238 Grossman, Daniel (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Bochanski, Stephen (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 Grötschel, Martin (National Academy of Engineering Elec- Bona, Jerry L. (Elected AAAS Fellow), 237 tion), 912 Bond, J. Richard (CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Math- Grundman, Helen (Bunting Scholar), 51 ematical Physics), 1068 Grushevsky, Samuel (Putnam Prize), 237 Borcherds, Richard E. (The Mathematical Work of the 1998 Hallett, Deborah Hughes (Elected AAAS Fellow), 237 Fields Medalists), 17 Hamilton, Richard S. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Breiman, Leo (American Academy of Arts and Sciences tion), 797 Election), 911 Hamman, Keith (B. H. Neumann Award), 1239 Brenner, Michael (CAREER Award), 797 Han Qing (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685

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Hartke, Stephen (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 Muscalu, Camil (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Higham, Nicholas (London Mathematical Society Junior Nash, John F. Jr. (1999 Steele Prize), 459 Whitehead Prize), 1239 Nazarov, Fedor (1999 Salem Prize), 1168 Holtz, Olga (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Newman-Gomez, Sharon Angela (NRC-Ford Foundation Iwasawa, Kenkichi (Memorial Article), 1221 Minority Fellowship), 238 Jaffe, Arthur, Interview with AMS President, 221 Ng, Ting Fai (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 Jackiw, Roman (Dirac Prize), 574 Nirenberg, Louis (National Medal of Science), 573 Jerison, David (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elec- Ockendon, John Richard (Royal Society of London Fellow), tion), 911 1069 Jiang, Dihua (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Ono, Ken (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Jones, Vaughan F. R. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Pandharipande, Rahul (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 tion), 797 Pantev, Tony (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Kadison, Richard V. (1999 Steele Prize), 461 Parisi, Giorgio (1999 Dirac Medal), 1412 Kaloshin, Vadim (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Peaceman, Donald W. (National Academy of Engineering Karlsson, Anders (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Election), 912 Kasdan, Jerry L. (MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1238 Peeva, Irena (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Kearsley, Anthony J. (Presidential Early Career Award), 574 Perelson, Alan S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Kesten, Harry (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elec- Election), 911 tion), 911 Pérez, John Anthony (NRC-Ford Foundation Minority Fel- Kiem, Young-Hoon (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 lowship), 238 Killip, Rowan Brett (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Perlin, Alexander (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Klainerman, Sergiu (1999 Bôcher Prize), 464 Perrin-Riou, Bernadette (1999 Bôcher Prize), 467 Klebanoff, Aaron (MAA George Pólya Award), 1238 Peterson (Franklin) and Fossum (Robert) Retire from AMS Klee, Victor (MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), 1238 Positions, 564 Koenig, Kenneth (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Powell, M. J. D. (London Mathematical Society Senior White- Kohn, Robert V. (Ralph E. Kleinman Prize), 1068 head Prize), 1238 Kontsevich, Maxim (The Mathematical Work of the 1998 Pries, Rachel J. (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Fields Medalists), 17 Pugh, Mary C. (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Landau, Susan (1999 Communication Policy Research Putnam, Ian Fraser (Royal Society of Canada Fellow), 1068 Award), 1070 Qing, Jie (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Lang, Serge (1999 Steele Prize), 457 Reay, John R. (MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), 1238 Leader, Imre (London Mathematical Society Junior White- Reeves, Howard (B. H. Neumann Award), 1239 head Prize), 1239 Rezk, Charles (1999 AMS Centennial Fellowship), 684 Lebowitz, Joel (AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibil- Rickert, John (MAA George Pólya Award), 1238 ity Award), 911 Rios, Francisco Ramon (NRC-Ford Foundation Minority Fel- Lewis, D. J. (Interview with D. J. Lewis), 669 lowship), 238 Li, Tao (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Roberts, Gareth (1999 Rollo Davidson Prize), 686 Li, Yanguang (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 Rockafellar, R. Tyrell (von Neumann Prize), 910 Lichnerowicz, André (Memorial Article), 1387 Roitman, Michael (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Lighthill, James (Copley Medal), 51; (Memorial Article), Rokhlin, Vladimir (National Academy of Sciences Election), 1226 797 Lovász (László) and Stein (Elias) Share 1999 Wolf Prize, Saari, Donald G. (MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), 1238 566 Savin, Ovidiu (Putnam Prize), 237 Luo, Wenzhi (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Schachermayer, Walter (Wittgenstein Award), 792 Maldacena, Juan (MacArthur Fellowship), 890 Schepler, Daniel K. (Putnam Prize), 237 Manin, Yuri (Rolf Schock Prize), 910 Schonmann, Roberto H. (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 Manolescu, Ciprian (Putnam Prize), 237 Schorichenko, Alexander (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), Martin, Kimball (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 1069 May (Robert) Receives Balzan Prize, 353 Schwarz, Matthias (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 McCoy, Barry M. (1999 Heineman Prize), 1069 Segal, Irving Ezra (Memorial Article), 659 McDuff, Dusa M. (National Academy of Sciences Election), Shor, Peter (MacArthur Fellowship), 890 797 Silverstein, Eva (MacArthur Fellowship), 890 McMullen, Curtis (The Mathematical Work of the 1998 Sinai, Yakov G. (National Academy of Sciences Election), 797 Fields Medalists), 17 Slanina, John (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 Mezic, Igor (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 Smith, Harry (Pi Mu Epsilon Student Prize), 237 Miller, Ezra (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Spencer, Thomas (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mitrea, Irina S. (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Election), 911 Moody, Robert V. (CRM/Fields Institute Prize), 1068 Spruck, Joel (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 Morawetz (Cathleen) Receives National Medal of Science, Starr, Jason M. (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 352 Stein (Elias) and Lovász (László) Share 1999 Wolf Prize, 566

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Stewart, Gilbert (Bauer Prize), 574 Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), 214 Stirling, William James (Royal Society of London Fellow), (The) Mathematical Work of the 1998 Fields Medalists, 17 1069 Mathematics to the Rescue (Retiring Presidential Address), Stone, Lawrence D. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- 9 tion), 1069 Michio Suzuki (1926–1998), 543 Sturmfels, Bernd (MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1238 News Flash: Proof Announced of Taniyama-Shimura-Weil Suzuki, Michio (Memorial Article), 543 Conjecture, 863 Tao, Terence (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 (A) Proof of the Full Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture Is Taylor, Jean (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elec- Announced, 1397 tion), 911 Proofs from THE BOOK (A Book Review), 789 Thurston, Dylan (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Pseudorandomness, 1209 Toland, Francis (Royal Society of London Fellow), 1069 Resonances in Physics and Geometry, 319 Tondeur, Phillipe (Appointed DMS Director), 474 Topology, Algebra, Analysis—Relations and Missing Links, Toth, John (1998 André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize), 520 1068 Vakil, Ravi (MAA Trevor Evans Award), 1238 Variations on the de Rham Complex, 1368 Valogne, Fabrice (MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), 1238 (The) Visualization of Mathematics: Towards a Mathemat- Venkataramani, Shankar (Sloan Research Fellowship), 685 ical Exploratorium, 647 Wallen, Lawrence J. (MAA George Pólya Award), 1238 Mathematics Calendar, 64, 276, 370, 482, 586, 702, Wang, Bin (1999 AMS Centennial Fellowship), 684 814, 976, 1106, 1286, 1432 Wang, Changyou (1999 AMS Centennial Fellowship), 684 Ward, Martin (B. H. Neumann Award), 1239 Weeks, Jeffrey (MacArthur Fellowship), 890 Mathematics History Weidman, Scott T. (Appointed BMS Director), 1073 André Weil and the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, 864 Weil, André (1906–1998) (Memorial Article), 440 André Weil: Memories of a Long Friendship, 633 Weil, André: A Prologue (Memorial Article), 434 AWM in the 1990s: A Recent History of the Association for Weil, André (André Weil: Memories of a Long Friendship), Women in Mathematics, 27; Correction to AWM Article, 633 802 White, Brian (Guggenheim Fellow), 685 (The) Dream of a Swedish Mathematician: The Mittag- Witten, Edward (Royal Society of London Fellow), 1069 Leffler Institute, 1050 Wolff, Thomas (1999 Bôcher Prize), 465 From Schwarz to Pick to Ahlfors and Beyond, 868 Wu, Tai Tsun (1999 Heineman Prize), 1069 (The) IHÉS at Forty, 329 Yang, Tonghai (1999 AMS Centennial Fellowship), 684 Interview with Henri Cartan, 782 Yorke, James A. (Elected AAAS Fellow), 237 Kerosinka: An Episode in the History of Soviet Mathemat- Zamolodchikov, Alexander B. (1999 Heineman Prize), 1069 ics, 1217 Zara, Catalin (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Mathematics Without Borders (A Book Review), 1230 Zharkov, Ilia H. (Sloan Dissertation Fellowship), 1069 Twenty Years of Attacks on the RSA Cryptosystem, 203 Zhou, Xin (Guggenheim Fellowship), 685 Zworski, Maciej (Royal Society of Canada Fellow), 1068 Meeting Announcements, Presenters of Papers, and Programs Mathematics √ An Imaginary Tale: The Story of 1 (A Book Review), January: Gainesville, FL (announcement), 109; Urbana, IL (an- 1233 nouncement), 111; Tucson, AZ (presenters and pro- Analysis on Fractals, 1199 gram), 122; San Antonio, TX (presenters and program), André Lichnerowicz (1915–1998), 1387 134 André Weil and Algebraic Topology, 422 February: Las Vegas, NV (announcement), 298; Buffalo, NY André Weil and the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, 864 (announcement), 299; Denton, TX (announcement), 301 Aperiodic Dynamical Systems, 1035 April: Melbourne, Australia (announcement), 506 Bernard Dwork (1923–1998), 338 May: Gainesville, FL (electronic program); Urbana, IL (elec- Capillary Surface Interfaces, 770 tronic program) Differential Galois Theory, 1041 June/July: Las Vegas, NV (electronic program); Buffalo, NY From Schwarz to Pick to Ahlfors and Beyond, 868 (electronic program); Denton, TX (electronic program); How the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture Was Solved, Salt Lake City, UT (announcement), 747; Austin, TX (an- 637; Correction to Article on Alternating Sign Matrix Con- nouncement), 748 jecture, 1419 August: Providence, RI (announcement), 845; Charlotte, NC Instabilities in Fluid Motion, 1358 (announcement), 847 Interview with Henri Cartan, 782 October: Washington, DC (announcement), 1133 Irving Ezra Segal (1918–1998), 659 December: Salt Lake City, UT (electronic program); Provi- Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917–1998), 1221 dence, RI (electronic program); Austin, TX (electronic Linear Systems of Plane Curves, 192 program); Charlotte, NC (electronic program)

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Meetings & Conferences, 107, 298, 407, 503, 615, 745, Williamstown, MA, 119, 309, 415, 511, 623, 757, 855, 1012, 844, 1003, 1131, 1332, 1471 1159, 1340, 1478 Calendar of AMS Meetings, 184, 312, 416, 512, 624, 760, 2002 Meetings 856, 1024, 1192, 1344, 1494 San Diego, CA, 120, 309, 415, 511, 623, 758, 855, 1012, 1159, General Information regarding Meetings & Conferences of 1340, 1478 the AMS, 106 Memorial Articles 1998 Meetings Mary Cartwright (1900–1998) (Shawnee McMurran and Tucson, AZ, 107 James Tattersall), 214 Bernard Dwork (1923–1998) (Nicholas M. Katz and John 1999 Meetings Tate), 338 San Antonio, TX, 107 Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917–1998) (John Coates), 1221 Gainesville, FL, 109, 298, 407, 503, 615 André Lichnerowicz (1915–1998) (Marcel Berger, Jean-Pierre Urbana, IL, 111, 298, 407, 503, 615 Bourguignon, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Charles-Michel Las Vegas, NV, 113, 298, 408, 504, 615, 745 Marle, and André Revuz), 1387 Buffalo, NY, 114, 299, 408, 504, 616, 745 Michael (1924–1998) (David G. Crighton Denton, TX, 114, 301, 409, 505, 616, 745 and T. J. Pedley), 1226 Melbourne, Australia, 115, 304, 409, 506, 617, 745 Irving Ezra Segal (1918–1998) (John C. Baez, Edwin F. Salt Lake City, UT, 116, 305, 410, 507, 618, 746, 844, 1003, Beschler, Leonard Gross, , Edward Nel- 1131 son, Michèle Vergne, and Arthur S. Wightman), 659 Providence, RI, 116, 305, 411, 507, 619, 748, 845, 1003, 1131 Michio Suzuki (1926–1998) (Michael Ansbacher, Helmut Austin, TX, 116, 306, 411, 508, 619, 748, 846, 1004, 1132, Bender, Walter Feit, and Ronald Solomon), 543 1332 André Weil (1906–1998) (Armand Borel, Pierre Cartier, Ko- Charlotte, NC, 117, 306, 412, 508, 620, 750, 847, 1005, 1133, maravolu Chandrasekharan, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Sho- 1333 kichi Iyanaga), 440 André Weil: A Prologue (Anthony W. Knapp), 434 2000 Meetings 73, 279, 382, Washington, DC, 117, 307, 412, 509, 620, 750, 849, 1005, New Publications Offered by the AMS, 488, 586, 716, 816, 983, 1110, 1289, 1437 1133, 1333, 1471 Santa Barbara, CA, 754, 850, 1007, 1154, 1334, 1472 Officers and Committee Members, 1271 Lowell, MA, 117, 307, 412, 509, 621, 754, 850, 1007, 1154, 1335, 1472 Officers of the Society, 1998 and 1999, 583 Notre Dame, IN, 118, 307, 413, 509, 621, 754, 851, 1008, 1154, 1335, 1473 Opinion Lafayette, LA, 118, 307, 413, 510, 621, 754, 851, 1008, Another Opinion, 317 1155, 1336, 1474 Commentary, 5, 189, 317, 421, 517, 629 Odense, Denmark, 118, 307, 413, 510, 621, 755, 852, 1009, Counterpoint, 767 1156, 1336, 1474 Editorial, 4, 188, 316, 420, 516, 628, 764, 860, 1028, 1196, Los Angeles, CA, 118, 308, 413, 510, 622, 755, 852, 1009, 1348 1156, 1337, 1475 In My Opinion, 189, 421, 517, 629, 1029, 1349 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 118, 308, 413, 510, 622, 756, 853, Letters to the Editor, 6, 190, 318, 518, 630, 766, 1030, 1350 1010, 1157, 1338, 1476 San Francisco, CA, 756, 853, 1010, 1157, 1338, 1476 Opportunities New York, NY, 119, 308, 414, 510, 622, 756, 853, 1010, 1157, 1999 NSF-CBMS Regional Conferences, 239 1338, 1476 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Birmingham, AL, 622, 756, 854, 1011, 1158, 1339, 1477 914, 1240 Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, 1158, 1339, 1477 AMS Epsilon Program: Call for Applications, 1241 Applications for Travel Grants to ICME-9 Are Available, 2001 Meetings 916 New Orleans, LA, 119, 308, 414, 510, 622, 757, 854, 1011, AWM Announces Mentoring Travel Grants for Women, 473 1158, 1339, 1477 AWM Mentoring Travel Grants for Women, 916 Columbia, SC, 119, 308, 414, 511, 623, 757, 854, 1011, 1158, AWM Travel Grants for Women, 915 1339, 1477 AWM Workshops for Women Graduate Students and Post- Lawrence, KS, 119, 309, 414, 511, 623, 757, 854, 1011, docs, 688 1159, 1339, 1477 Call for Nominations for AWM Hay Award, 689 Hoboken, NJ, 119, 309, 414, 511, 623, 757, 854, 1011, Call for Nominations for AWM Schafer Prize, 689 1159, 1340, 1478 Call for Nominations for the Richard C. DiPrima Prize, 1242 Lyon, France, 757, 855, 1011, 1159, 1340, 1478 CAREER/PECASE Program Guidelines on Web, 687

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Conference Announcement: The Summer Mathematics Ex- Prizes and Awards perience: A Working Conference on Summer Mathe- 1999 AMS Centennial Fellowships Awarded (Charles Rezk, matics Programs for Undergraduates, 239 Bin Wang, Changyou Wang, Tonghai Yang), 684 Deadlines and Target Dates at the NSF, 798 1999 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize (Daniel Biss), 469 EDGE Summer Program, 53, 1415 1999 André Aisenstadt Prize (John Toth), 1068 Fulbright Awards for 2000–2001 for U.S. Faculty and Pro- 1999 Bergman Prize (John P. D’Angelo), 573 fessionals, 688 1999 Bôcher Prize (Demetrios Christodoulou, Sergiu Klain- Humboldt Foundation Offers Fellowships, 1071 erman, Thomas Wolff), 463 IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, 240 1999 Communication Policy Research Award (Whitfield IBM Fellowship in Mathematical Sci- Diffie, Susan Landau), 1070 ences, 52 1999 Dirac Medal (Giorgio Parisi), 1412 IMA Announces Spring and Summer Programs, 472 1999 Heineman Prize (Barry M. McCoy), 1069 International Center for Mathematical Sciences 1999 Sci- 1999 Intel Science Talent Search Winners (Rio Gabriel Ben- entific Program, 472 nin, Lisa Beth Schwartz), 1070 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award, 340 1999 Rollo Davidson Prizes (Raphael Cerf, Gareth Roberts), Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications Throughout 686 the Curriculum, 473 1999 Salem Prize (Fedor Nazarov), 1068 Mathematics Awareness Month, 358 1999 Satter Prize (Bernadette Perrin-Riou), 467 Mittag-Leffler Institute Postdoctoral Grants, 52 1999 Steele Prizes (Michael G. Crandall, Richard V. Kadi- NAS Mathematics Award Nominations Sought, 799 son, Serge Lang, John F. Nash Jr.), 457 National Institute for Science Education (NISE) Fellowships, 1999 Wolf Prize in Mathematics (László Lovász and Elias 358 Stein), 566 National Medal of Science Nominations Sought, 473 AAAS Fellows Elected (Jerry L. Bona, Keith Devlin, Debo- National Research Council Research Assistantship Pro- rah Hughes Hallett, James A. Yorke), 237 grams, 1415 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award (Joel New NSF Institute Competition Possible, 1241 Lebowitz), 911 News from the Banach Center, 577 Adler (Stephen) and Jackiw (Roman) Receive Dirac Medals, News from the IMA, 1071 News from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathemat- 574 ics, 1416 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Election (Leo NIST Postdoctoral Research Associateships Program, 577 Breiman, David Jerison, Harry Kesten, Alan S. Perelson, NRC-Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Mi- Thomas Spencer, and Jean E. Taylor), 911 norities, 1414 AMS-AAAS Media Fellow (Brian Allen), 1069 NSA Grant and Sabbatical Programs, 915 AMS Menger Awards at the 1999 Intel-International Science NSF Announces Midcareer Methodological Opportunities, and Engineering Fair, 912 916 AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize (Caroline J. Klivans) (Honorable NSF Announces Program for Graduate Teaching Fellows, Mentions—Laura Ciobanu, Catherine S. Grasso, Amanda 576 Mueller, Suzanne Shontz), 570 NSF Announces Program on Large Scientific and Software AWM Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Edu- Data Set Visualization, 687 cation (Martha K. Smith), 570 NSF Graduate Fellowships, 1241 B. H. Neumann Award (Keith Hamann, Howard Reeves, NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Martin Ward), 1239 ships, 915 Balzan Prize (Robert May), 353 ONR Young Investigator Program, 798 Bauer Prize (Gilbert W. Stewart), 574 Prize for Achievement in Information-Based Complexity, Bunting Scholar (Helen Grundman), 51 241 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and (K. Project NExT: New Experiences in Teaching, 359 Richard Bond), 1068 Request for Proposals for 2000 NSF-CBMS Regional Con- CAREER Awards Made (Michael Brenner, Merlise Clyde, ferences, 359 Arlie Petters), 797 Special Minisymposium at ICIAM 99, 240 China and Russia Tie for First in International Mathemat- Summer 2000 Research for U.S. Graduate Students in Sci- ical Olympiad, 1413 ence and Engineering, 1414 Copley Medal Awarded to Lighthill (James), 51 Travel Grants for Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Cen- CRM/Fields Institute Prize (Robert V. Moody), 1068 tury, August 2000, 1241 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize Awarded (Patrick Dehornoy), Travel Grants for Women, 576 797 Travel Grants for Women in Mathematics, 240 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded (Percy Alec Deift, Aaron Travel/Host Grants for Research, 359 L. Fogelson, Cameron Gordon, Yanguang Li, Roberto H. VIGRE Grants for Integrated Research and Education, 53 Schonmann, Joel Spruck, Brian White, Xin Zhou), 685 Visiting Research Professor (VRP) Program, 53 JPBM Communications Award (Ian Stewart), 568

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JPBM Special Communications Award (John Lynch, Simon Vadim Kaloshin, Anders Karlsson, Young-Hoon Kiem, Singh), 568 Rowan Brett Killip, Kenneth Koenig, Tao Li, Ezra Miller, London Mathematical Society Junior Berwick Prize (David Irina S. Mitrea, Camil Muscalu, Alexander Perlin, Rachel Burns), 1239 J. Pries, Michael Roitman, Alexander Scorichenko, Jason London Mathematical Society Junior Whitehead Prize (Mar- M. Starr, Dylan Thurston, Catalin Zara, Ilia H. Zharkov), tin Bridson, Gero Friesecke, Nicholas Higham, Imre 1069 Leader), 1239 Sloan Fellows Announced (Jim Bryan, Almut Burchard, London Mathematical Society Pólya Prize (Simon Donald- Jingyi Chen, Carson C. Chow, Benson Farb, Anne Gelb, son), 1238 Alain Goriely, Qing Han, Dihua Jiang, Wenzhi Luo, Igor London Mathematical Society Senior Whitehead Prize Mezic, Ken Ono, Rahul Pandharipande, Tony Pantev, (M. J. D. Powell), 1238 Irena Peeva, Mary C. Pugh, Jie Qing, Matthias Schwarz, MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award (, John R. Reay, Terence Tao, Shankar Venkataramani), 685 Donald G. Saari, Fabrice Valognes), 1238 Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards Presented, 1412 MAA Certificates of Meritorious Service (Charles Alexander, USA Mathematical Olympiad (Sasha Schwartz, Reid W. Bar- Randall Heckman, David Kullman, Billy E. Rhoades, Mar- ton, Gabriel D. Carroll, Lawrence O. Detlor, Po-Shen Loh, cellus Waddill), 571 Stephen E. Haas, Paul A. Valiant, Melanie E. Wood), 913 MAA (Michael I. Rosen), 572 von Neumann Prize (R. Tyrell Rockafellar), 910 MAA George Pólya Award (David Bleecker, Aaron Klebanoff, Wittgenstein Award (Walter Sachachermayer), 792 John Rickert, Lawrence J. Wallen), 1238 MAA Gung-Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathe- The Profession matics (Leonard Gillman), 571 14th Annual BMS Department Chairs’ Colloquium, 1073 MAA Haimo Awards for Distinguished Teaching (Joel V. 1998 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Re- Brawley, Robert W. Case, Joan P. Hutchinson), 571 port), 224; (Second Report), 894 MAA Lestor R. Ford Award (Yoav Benyamini, Jerry L. Kaz- AMS Report on Doctoral Mathematics Departments, 1418 dan, Bernd Sturmfels), 1238 BMS Report on Institutes, 1417 MAA Trevor Evans Award (Ravi Vakil), 1238 (The) Clay Mathematics Institute, 888 MacArthur Fellowships (Juan Maldacena, Peter Shor, Eva Sil- Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 242 verstein, Jeffrey Weeks), 890 Forum—Impact of the Government Performance and Re- National Academy of Engineering Elections (James W. Dem- sults Act, 1197 mel, Donald W. Peaceman, Martin Grötschel), 913; Forum—Missing Opportunities, 1355 Lawrence D. Stone, 1069 Forum—Rochester Four Years Later: From Crisis to Op- National Academy of Sciences Elections (Richard A. Askey, portunity, 861 Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Richard S. Hamilton, Vaughan F. R. Interview with AMS President Arthur Jaffe, 221 Jones, Dusa M. McDuff, Valdimir Rokhlin, Yakov G. Sinai), 797 Interview with AMS President Felix Browder, 344 National Medal of Science (Cathleen Morawetz), 352 Interview with D. J. Lewis, 669 NRC-Ford Foundation Minority Fellowships Awarded Mathematical Sciences in the FY 2000 Budget, 680 (Sharon Angela Newman-Gomez, John Anthony Pérez, Millennium Mathematics Project, 1244 Francisco Ramon Rios, David Vicente Cruz-Uribe), 238 (The) “New” JPBM, 793 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Announced, 796 NSF Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request, 677 Pi Mu Epsilon Awards Student Prizes (Stephen Bochanski, NSF Keeps Two Existing Institutes and Funds a Third, 800 Joe Ferguson, Nathan L. Gibson, Stephen Hartke, Kim- NSF Report Examines Foreign Doctorates’ Plans to Remain ball Martin, Ting Fai Ng, John Slanina, Harry Smith), 237 in United States, 475 Presidential Early Career Awards (Alexander Barvinok, An- Update on Data Disclosure Law, 1244 thony J. Kearsley), 574 Putnam Prizes Awarded (Patrick K. Corn, Mike L. Develin, Publications of Continuing Interest, 81, 283, 393, Samuel Grushevsky, Ciprian Manolescu, Ovidiu Savin, 492, 607, 734, 823, 992, 1117, 1295, 1452 Daniel K. Schepler, Ioana Dumitriu), 237 Rolf Schock Prize (Yuri Manin), 910 Reciprocity Agreements, 961 Royal Society of Canada Fellows (Michel Fortin, Ian Fraser Putnam, Maciej Zworski), 1068 Reference and Book List, 56, 243, 361, 478, 579, 695, Royal Society of London Fellows (Gary Williams Gibbons, 803, 919, 1074, 1246, 1420 William , John Richard Ockendon, William James Stirling, John Francis Toland, Edward Research News Witten), 1069 (A) Proof of the Full Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture Is SIAM von Kármán Prize (Stuart S. Antman and John M. Announced (Henri Darmon), 1397 Ball), 911 Sloan Dissertation Fellowships (Bojko N. Bakalov, Vladimir Reviews Baranovsky, Melanie Bertelson, Danny Calegari, Gautam Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Reviewed Chinta, Mark Dickinson, Daniel Grossman, Olga Holtz, by S. L. Zabell), 47

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