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The 2011 Notices Index January issue: 1–224 May issue: 649–760 October issue: 1217–1400 February issue: 225–360 June/July issue: 761–888 November issue: 1401–1528 March issue: 361–520 August issue: 889–1048 December issue: 1529–1672 April issue: 521–648 September issue: 1049–1216 2011 Morgan Prize, 599 Index Section Page Number 2011 Report of the Executive Director, State of the AMS, 1006 The AMS 1652 2011 Satter Prize, 601 Announcements 1653 2011 Steele Prizes, 593 Articles 1653 2011–2012 AMS Centennial Fellowship Awarded, 835 Authors 1655 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Deaths of Members of the Society 1657 1135 Grants, Fellowships, Opportunities 1659 American Mathematical Society—Contributions, 723 Letters to the Editor 1661 Meetings Information 1661 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships, 1303 New Publications Offered by the AMS 1662 AMS Announces Congressional Fellow, 843 Obituaries 1662 AMS Announces New Blog for Job Seekers, 1603 Opinion 1662 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 1467 Prizes and Awards 1662 AMS Department Chairs Workshop, 1468 Prizewinners 1665 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1466 Reference and Book List 1668 AMS Holds Workshop for Department Chairs, 844 Reviews 1668 AMS Announces Mass Media Fellowship Award, 843 Surveys 1668 AMS Centennial Fellowships, Invitation for Applications Tables of Contents 1668 for Awards, 1466 AMS Email Support for Frequently Asked Questions, 326 AMS Holds Workshop for Department Chairs, 730 About the Cover AMS Hosts Congressional Briefing, 73 35, 323, 475, 567, 717, 819, 928, 1200, 1262, 1445, 1604 AMS Menger Awards at the 2011 ISEF, 1133 AMS Officers and Committee Members, 1311 The AMS AMS Short Courses in Boston, MA, 1345 2010 Election Results, 331 AMS-Simons Travel Grants for Early-Career Mathemati- 2011 AMS Election—Nominations by Petition, 332 cians, 479 2011 AMS Election Voting Information, 1005 AMS Sponsors Exhibit at Capitol Hill Event, 1140 2011 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in Andrews Presents Testimony, 1139 a Mathematics Department, 716 Boston Meeting Registration Forms, 1397, 1525, 1669 2011 Bôcher Prize, 603 Call for Conference Proposals 2012 MRC Conferences, 98 2011 Cole Prize in Number Theory, 610 Call for Nominations for 2010 Leroy P. Steele Prizes, 621 Call for Nominations for AMS Award for Mathematics Programs 2011 Conant Prize, 597 That Make a Difference, 486, 623 2011 Doob Prize, 606 Call for Nominations for the 2012 Frank and Brennie Morgan 2011 Eisenbud Prize, 608 AMS-MAA-SIAM Prize, 738 2011 Mathematical Moments, 1470 Call for Nominations for the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial 2011 Mathematics Research Communities, 1470 Prize and the AMS Distinguished Public Service Award, 737 2011 Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference, 713 Call for Nominations for the AMS Exemplary Program Prize, 849 1652 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 58, NUMBER 11 2011 Index Call for Nominations for the George David Birkhoff, Frank Nel- Directional Regularity vs. Joint Regularity (Marek Jarnicki son Cole, and Levi L. Conant Prizes, 736 and Peter Pflug), 896 Call for Nominations for the Position of AMS Secretary, 485, 622 Discrete Wavelet Transformations and Undergraduate Call for Proposals for AMS Short Courses, 1600 Education (Catherine Bénéteau, Patrick J. Van Fleet), 656 Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 1603 Eisenstein Series, Crystals, and Ice (Benjamin Brubaker, Epsilon Awards for 2010, 730 Daniel Bump, and Solomon Friedberg), 1563 Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture, 73, 843 (The) Establishment of Sampling as a Scientific Principle— Fan China Exchange Program, 843 A Striking Case of Multiple Discovery (Paulo J. S. G. From the AMS Public Awareness Office, 73, 326, 480, 730, Ferreira and Rowland Higgins), 1446 1140, 1604 Exploratory Experimentation and Computation (David H. General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences Bailey, Jonathan M. 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