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The 1999 Notices Index, Volume 46, Number 11 index.qxp 10/15/99 11:17 AM Page 1480 The 1999 Notices Index Index Section Page Number 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 Mathematicians 1487 Surveys 1493 Mathematics 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 Arnold Ross 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 Arthur Jaffe, 221 AMS-AAAS Media Fellow Chosen, 1069 AMS E-mail Support for Frequently Asked Questions, 1269; Interview with AMS President Felix Browder, 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 1480 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 46, NUMBER 11 index.qxp 10/15/99 11:17 AM Page 1481 1999 Index 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 Louis Nirenberg: 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 Women in Science 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 DECEMBER 1999 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1481 index.qxp 10/15/99 11:17 AM Page 1482 1999 Index 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,
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