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Officers and Committee Members, Volume 48, Number 9 Officers and Committee Members Numbers to the left of headings are used as points of reference 2. Council in an index to AMS committees which follows this listing. Primary and secondary headings are: 2.0.1. Officers of the AMS 1. Officers President Hyman Bass 2002 1.1. Liaison Committee Immediate Past President 2. Council Felix E. Browder 2001 2.1. Executive Committee of the Council Vice Presidents James G. Arthur 2001 3. Board of Trustees Ingrid Daubechies 2003 4. Committees David Eisenbud 2002 4.1. Committees of the Council Secretary Robert J. Daverman 2002 4.2. Editorial Committees Associate Secretaries* John L. Bryant 2002 4.3. Committees of the Board of Trustees 4.4. Committees of the Executive Committee and Board of Susan J. Friedlander 2001 Trustees Bernard Russo 2001 4.5. Internal Organization of the AMS Lesley M. Sibner 2002 4.6. Program and Meetings Treasurer John M. Franks 2002 4.7. Status of the Profession Associate Treasurer B. A. Taylor 2002 4.8. Prizes and Awards 4.9. Institutes and Symposia 4.10. Joint Committees 2.0.2. Representatives of Committees 5. Representatives Bulletin Donald G. Saari 2001 6. Index Colloquium Susan J. Friedlander 2001 Terms of members expire on January 31following the year given Executive Committee Robert L. Bryant 2003 unless otherwise specified. Executive Committee Joel H. Spencer 2001 Executive Committee Karen Vogtmann 2002 Journal of the AMS Carlos E. Kenig 2003 1. Mathematical Reviews Hugh L. Montgomery 2001 Officers Mathematical Surveys President Hyman Bass 2002 and Monographs Michael P. Loss 2002 Immediate Past President Mathematics of Felix E. Browder 2001 Computation Lars B. Wahlbin 2001 Vice Presidents James G. Arthur 2001 Proceedings Eric D. Bedford 2004 Ingrid Daubechies 2003 Transactions and David Eisenbud 2002 Memoirs William Beckner 2003 Secretary Robert J. Daverman 2002 Associate Secretaries John L. Bryant 2002 2.0.3. Members at Large Susan J. Friedlander 2001 Bernard Russo 2001 Patricia E. Bauman 2002 Alexander Nagel 2003 Lesley M. Sibner 2002 Haim Brezis 2001 Louise A. Raphael 2003 Treasurer John M. Franks 2002 Walter L. Craig 2003 Jonathan M. Rosenberg 2002 Associate Treasurer B. A. Taylor 2002 Keith J. Devlin 2003 Donald G. Saari 2001 Robert A. Fefferman 2001 Tatiana Toro 2001 1.1. Liaison Committee Irene Fonseca 2003 Lisa M. Traynor 2002 William Fulton 2002 Nolan R. Wallach 2001 All members of this committee serve ex officio. Martin Golubitsky 2002 Roy L. Adler Chair Hyman Bass * Only one Associate Secretary at a time is a voting member of the Robert J. Daverman Council, namely the cognizant Associate Secretary for the scientific John M. Franks sessions. 1032 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 9 Officers and Committee Members 2.1. Executive Committee of the Council Associate Editors for Bulletin Articles Hyman Bass ex officio John C. Baez 2001 Haynes R. Miller 2001 Felix E. Browder ex officio John M. Franks 2001 Hugo Rossi 2001 Robert L. Bryant 2003 Eric M. Friedlander 2001 Daniel Ruberman 2001 Robert J. Daverman ex officio Craig L. Huneke 2001 Panagiotis E. Souganidis David Eisenbud 2004 Douglas A. Lind 2001 2003 Joel H. Spencer 2001 Barry Mazur 2001 David A. Vogan 2001 Karen Vogtmann 2002 Associate Editors for Book Reviews Lawrence Craig Evans 2001 Audrey A. Terras 2002 Andy R. Magid 2001 Wolfgang Ziller 2001 3. Board of Trustees Philip E. Protter 2002 4.2.3. Collected Works Chair Roy L. Adler 2002 Hyman Bass ex officio Chair Jonathan L. Alperin 2003 John B. Conway 2005 Elliott H. Lieb 2002 John M. Franks ex officio Cathleen S. Morawetz 2003 Secretary Eric M. Friedlander 2004 4.2.4. Colloquium Linda Keen 2003 Chair Susan J. Friedlander 2001 Andy R. Magid 2001 Yuri Manin 2003 B. A. Taylor ex officio Peter Sarnak 2002 4.2.5. Contemporary Mathematics Andreas Blass 2001 4. Committees Chair Dennis DeTurck 2004 Andy R. Magid 2001 Michael S. Vogelius 2001 4.1. Committees of the Council 4.2.6. Electronic Research Announcements Standing Committees Stuart Antman 2002 David J. Benson 2001 4.1.1. Editorial Boards Dimitri Burago 2003 George E. Andrews 2001 Mark Freidlin 2002 Tony F. C. Chan 2003 Ronald L. Graham 2003 Jane P. Gilman 2003 Chair Svetlana R. Katok 2003 Palle E. T. Jorgensen 2002 Yitzhak Katznelson 2001 Krystyna M. Kuperberg 2001 David Kazhdan 2001 Chair Gregory F. Lawler 2002 Alexander S. Kechris 2002 Alexandre A. Kirillov 2002 4.1.2. Nominating Committee Frances C. Kirwan 2002 Terms begin on January 1and end on December 31of the Krystyna M. Kuperberg 2002 year listed. Robert K. Lazarsfeld 2001 William Browder 2001 Grigorii A. Margulis 2002 Ruth M. Charney 2002 Hugh L. Montgomery 2003 Ramesh A. Gangolli 2002 Walter David Neumann 2003 Lisa Claire Jeffrey 2001 Klaus Schmidt 2003 Irwin Kra 2003 Richard M. Schoen 2001 Masamichi Takesaki 2003 Chair Frank Morgan 2002 Michael E. Taylor 2001 Marc A. Rieffel 2001 Guido L. Weiss 2003 Cora S. Sadosky 2003 Zhihong (Jeff) Xia 2003 Steven H. Weintraub 2003 Don B. Zagier 2001 Efim I. Zelmanov 2003 4.2. Editorial Committees 2003 4.2.7. Graduate Studies in Mathematics 4.2.1. Abstracts Editorial Committee Steven G. Krantz 2003 All members of this committee serve ex officio. Chair David J. Saltman 2002 John L. Bryant David Sattinger 2001 Chair Robert J. Daverman Ronald J. Stern 2001 Susan J. Friedlander Bernard Russo 4.2.8. Journal of the AMS Lesley M. Sibner Ingrid Daubechies 2001 Aise Johan de Jong 2002 4.2.2. Bulletin (New Series) Chair Carlos E. Kenig 2003 Chief Editor Donald G. Saari 2001 Richard M. Schoen 2003 Bhama Srinivasan 2001 Bernd Sturmfels 2001 OCTOBER 2001 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1033 Officers and Committee Members Associate Editors 4.2.13. Proceedings Coordinating Mark J. Ablowitz 2002 James G. Arthur 2002 Grigorii A. Margulis 2003 Joseph A. Ball 2002 Alexander Beilinson 2001 Curtis T. McMullen 2002 Dan M. Barbasch 2002 F. Michael Christ 2001 Tomasz S. Mrowka 2002 Chair Eric D. Bedford 2004 Constantine M. Dafermos Bjorn Poonen 2002 Jonathan Borwein 2002 2001 Jonathan M. Rosenberg 2002 Suncica Canic 2004 Weinan E 2003 Karen E. Smith 2002 Carmen C. Chicone 2003 Lawrence Craig Evans 2001 Richard P. Stanley 2003 Bennett Chow 2002 Michael J. Hopkins 2002 W. Hugh Woodin 2002 Richard A. Davis 2003 Ehud Hrushovski 2003 Efim I. Zelmanov 2001 J. Dodziuk 2004 Robert K. Lazarsfeld 2002 Alan Dow 2003 Coordinating Ronald A. Fintushel 2002 4.2.9. Mathematical Reviews Paul Goerss 2004 AMS staff contact: Jane E. Kister. Michael Handel 2001 Juha M. Heinonen 2003 Heinz W. Engl 2002 Dennis A. Hejhal 2001 Jonathan I. Hall 2003 Rebecca A. Herb 2002 Yuji Ito 2003 Carl G. Jockusch, Jr. 2004 Coordinating Linda Keen 2001 Joyce R. McLaughlin 2002 David R. Larson 2004 Chair Hugh L. Montgomery 2001 Martin Lorenz 2004 Clarence Wilkerson 2001 Claudia M. Neuhauser 2002 David Preiss 2002 4.2.10. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Mohan Ramachandran 2003 David E. Rohrlich 2002 Peter S. Landweber 2003 Andreas Seeger 2004 Chair Michael P. Loss 2002 David H. Sharp 2003 Tudor Stefan Ratiu 2003 Mei-Chi Shaw 2004 J. Tobias Stafford 2003 Coordinating Lance W. Small 2001 Stephen D. Smith 2002 4.2.11. Mathematics of Computation Coordinating Christopher D. Sogge 2001 John R. Stembridge 2001 Stanley J. Osher 2001 Michael Stillman 2002 Ren´e Schoof 2001 David S. Tartakoff 2002 Chair Lars B. Wahlbin 2001 N. Tomczak-Jaegermann 2003 Wolmer V. Vasconcelos 2001 Joseph D. Ward 2001 Wolfgang Ziller 2003 2004 Associate Editors 4.2.14. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Randolph E. Bank 2003 Roswitha M¨arz 2002 Mathematics David W. Boyd 2003 Harald G. Niederreiter 2002 Marsha J. Berger 2000 Susanne C. Brenner 2001 Ricardo Horacio Nochetto Chair Peter S. Constantin 2001 Richard P. Brent 2003 2001 Eitan Tadmor 2002 Joe P. Buhler 2003 Haesun Park 2001 Carsten Carstensen 2003 Joseph E. Pasciak 2001 4.2.15. Transactions and Memoirs Arjeh M. Cohen 2002 Lothar Reichel 2001 Peter W. Bates 2003 Ronald F. A. Cools 2002 Chi-Wang Shu 2001 Chair William Beckner 2003 Howard Elman 2003 Frank Stenger 2001 Bruce E. Blackadar 2001 Richard S. Falk 2001 Denis Talay 2003 Krzysztof Burdzy 2003 Andrew J. Granville 2001 Nico M. Temme 2001 Charles W. Curtis 2001 Daniel W. Lozier 2001 Hugh C. Williams 2003 Lawrence M. Ein 2002 Zhi-Quan Luo 2002 Jinchao Xu 2003 Sergey Fomin 2004 Lisa Claire Jeffrey 2004 4.2.12. Notices Editorial Board Barbara L. Keyfitz 2001 Terms begin on January 1and expire on December 31of the Michael J. Larsen 2003 year listed D. H. Phong 2004 Stewart B. Priddy 2003 Editor Harold P. Boas 2003 Theodore A. Slaman 2001 Robert J. Stanton 2001 Associate Editors Abigail Thompson 2004 Robert F. Williams 2001 Susanne C. Brenner 2003 Elliott H. Lieb 2003 2002 William Casselman 2003 Andy R. Magid 2003 Robert J. Daverman Judith Roitman 2003 4.2.16. Translation from Chinese ex officio Mark E. Saul 2003 Sun-Yung Alice Chang Nathaniel Dean 2003 Karen E. Smith 2003 S.-Y. Cheng Richard T. Durrett 2003 Audrey A. Terras 2003 Chair Tsit-Yuen Lam Susan J. Friedlander 2003 Lisa M. Traynor 2003 Tai-Ping Liu Robion C. Kirby 2003 Chung-Chun Yang 1034 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 9 Officers and Committee Members 4.2.17. Translation from Japanese 4.3.5. Staff and Services Chair Shoshichi Kobayashi 1999 All members of this committee serve ex officio. Masamichi Takesaki 1999 Roy L. Adler Standing Committees John M. Franks Chair B.A.Taylor 4.2.18. Conformal Geometry and Dynamics Kari Astala 2003 4.4. Committees of the Executive Frederick W. Gehring 2003 Chair Linda Keen 2002 Committee and Board of Trustees Misha Lyubich 2002 Howard Masur 2001 4.4.1.
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