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Of®cers 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. Of®cers of the AMS 1. Of®cers President Arthur M. Jaffe 1998 1.1. Liaison Committee Ex-President Cathleen S. Morawetz 1997 2. Council Vice-Presidents Michael Aschbacher 1998 2.1. Executive Committee of the Council H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. 1999 3. Board of Trustees Gian-Carlo Rota 1997 4. Committees Secretary Robert M. Fossum 1998 4.1. Committees of the Council Associate Secretaries* Robert J. Daverman 1998 4.2. Editorial Committees Susan J. Friedlander 1997 4.3. Committees of the Board of Trustees William A. Harris 1997 4.4. Committees of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees Lesley M. Sibner 1998 4.5. Internal Organization of the AMS Treasurer Franklin P. Peterson 1998 4.6. Program and Meetings Associate Treasurer B. A. Taylor 1998 4.7. Status of the Profession 4.8. Prizes and Awards 2.0.2. Representatives of Committees 4.9. Institutes and Symposia 4.10. Joint Committees Bulletin David Eisenbud 1998 5. Representatives Colloquium Susan J. Friedlander 1998 6. Index Executive Committee John B. Conway 2000 Terms of members expire on January 31 following the year given Executive Committee Steven George Krantz 1998 unless otherwise speci®ed. Executive Committee Andrew M. Odlyzko 1999 Executive Committee Marc A. Rieffel 1997 Journal of the AMS William Fulton 1998 Mathematical Reviews Hugh L. Montgomery 1998 1. Of®cers Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Tudor Stefan Ratiu 1997 President Arthur M. Jaffe 1998 Mathematics of Ex-President Cathleen S. Morawetz 1997 Computation Lars B. Wahlbin 1997 Vice-Presidents Michael Aschbacher 1998 Proceedings Clifford J. Earle, Jr. 2000 H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. 1999 Transactions and Gian-Carlo Rota 1997 Memoirs Peter B. Shalen 1999 Secretary Robert M. Fossum 1998 Associate Secretaries Robert J. Daverman 1998 2.0.3. Members-at-Large Susan J. Friedlander 1997 William A. Harris 1997 Francis Bonahon 1999 Jerrold E. Marsden 1997 Lesley M. Sibner 1998 David M. Bressoud 1998 Andrew M. Odlyzko 1998 Treasurer Franklin P. Peterson 1998 Gail A. Carpenter 1998 Gail D. L. Ratcliff 1999 Associate Treasurer B. A. Taylor 1998 John B. Conway 1998 Cora S. Sadosky 1997 David B. A. Epstein 1997 Alice Silverberg 1997 1.1. Liaison Committee Frederick P. Gardiner 1999 Joel H. Spencer 1999 James M. Hyman 1997 Karen Vogtmann 1999 All members of this committee serve ex of®cio. Krystyna M. Kuperberg 1998 Hyman Bass Robert M. Fossum * Only one Associate Secretary at a time is a voting member of the Chair Arthur M. Jaffe Council, namely the cognizant Associate Secretary for the scienti®c Franklin P. Peterson sessions. 972 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 44, NUMBER 8 Of®cers and Committee Members 2.1. Executive Committee of the Council 4.1.5. Search Committee for the Treasurer John B. Conway 2000 Steve Armentrout Robert M. Fossum ex of®cio Consultant John H. Ewing Arthur M. Jaffe ex of®cio Arthur M. Jaffe Steven George Krantz 1998 Consultant Franklin P. Peterson Cathleen S. Morawetz ex of®cio Chair B. A. Taylor Andrew M. Odlyzko 1999 Marc A. Rieffel 1997 4.2. Editorial Committees 3. Board of Trustees 4.2.1. Abstracts Editorial Committee Roy L. Adler 1997 All members of this committee serve ex of®cio. Chair Hyman Bass 1998 Secretary Michael G. Crandall 2000 Robert J. Daverman Arthur M. Jaffe ex of®cio Chair Robert M. Fossum Andy R. Magid 2001 Susan J. Freidlander Donald E. McClure 1999 William A. Harris Franklin P. Peterson ex of®cio B. A. Taylor ex of®cio Lesley M. Sibner 4.2.2. Bulletin (New Series) Robert Blattner 1997 4. Committees Chair David Eisenbud 1998 Haynes R. Miller 1999 4.1. Committees of the Council Associate Editors for Book Reviews Standing Committees Martin D. Davis 1998 Alex J. Wilkie 1997 4.1.1. Editorial Boards Jim Douglas 1999 Ruth J. Williams 1999 Jens Carsten Jantzen 1997 Wolfgang Ziller 1998 Eric D. Bedford 1999 Co-chair Sun-Yung Alice Chang 1998 Associate Editors for Research Reports Andrew J. Granville 1998 Co-chair Rhonda J. Hughes 1997 John M. Franks 1998 David A. Vogan, Jr. 1998 Richard S. Palais 1999 Eric M. Friedlander 1997 Robert J. Zimmer 1999 Harold M. Stark 1997 Barry Mazur 1998 1999 4.1.2. Nominating Committee Daniel Ruberman 1997 1999 Richard M. Schoen 1997 Terms begin on January 1 Jerry L. Bona 1997 Associate Editors for Research ± Expository Surveys Sylvain E. Cappell 1998 Ingrid Daubechies 1997 John C. Baez 1997 Karen Vogtmann 1999 Chair Eric M. Friedlander 1998 Bruce K. Driver 1998 Nolan R. Wallach 1998 Jane P. Gilman 1998 Barbara L. Osofsky 1999 4.2.3. Collected Works John C. Polking 1999 Chair Richard A. Askey 1997 James D. Stasheff 1999 Elliott H. Lieb 1999 Susan Gayle Williams 1997 Barry Mazur 1997 Special Committees 1998 4.1.3. Search Committee for the Editor of the 1998 Notices Co-chair John H. Ewing 4.2.4. Colloquium Co-chair Robert M. Fossum Joan S. Birman 1997 Jill P. Mesirov Chair Susan J. Friedlander 1998 Consultant Hugo Rossi Stephen Lichtenbaum 1999 4.1.4. Search Committee for the Secretary Chair Roy L. Adler 4.2.5. Contemporary Mathematics Consultant Robert M. Fossum Chair Dennis DeTurck 1998 John M. Franks Andy R. Magid 1998 Ronald L. Graham Cathleen S. Morawetz Clark Robinson 1997 Consultant Everett Pitcher Michael Vogelius 1997 Marc A. Rieffel Peter M. Winkler 1997 SEPTEMBER 1997 NOTICES OF THE AMS 973 Of®cers and Committee Members 4.2.6. Electronic Research Announcements Associate Editors Stuart Antman 1999 James Bramble 1997 RenÂe Schoof 1998 Douglas N. Arnold 1997 Susanne C. Brenner 1998 Ridgway Scott 1998 Hyman Bass 1998 Arjeh M. Cohen 1999 Chi-Wang Shu 1998 Eugenio Calabi 1997 Howard Elman 1997 Frank Stenger 1998 Alexandre J. Chorin 1999 Richard Falk 1998 Hans J. Stetter 1997 Ingrid Daubechies 1999 Walter Gautschi 1998 Nico M. Temme 1998 Mark Freidlin 1999 Daniel W. Lozier 1998 Vidar C. ThomÂee 1997 James G. Glimm 1997 James N. Lyness 1999 Joseph D. Ward 1997 Ronald L. Graham 1997 Roswitha Marz 1999 Hugh C. Williams 1997 Chair Svetlana R. Katok 1997 Harald Niederreiter 1999 Stephen J. Wright 1997 Yitzhak Katznelson 1998 John E. Osborn 1998 1999 David Kazhdan 1998 Carl Pomerance 1997 Alexander S. Kechris 1999 Alexandre A. Kirillov 1999 4.2.12. Notices Editorial Board Frances C. Kirwan 1999 Editor Hugo Rossi 1997 Krystyna M. Kuperberg 1999 Robert K. Lazarsfeld 1998 Associate Editors Grigorii A. Margulis 1999 Hugh L. Montgomery 1997 Robert M. Fossum ex of®cio Andy R. Magid Walter David Neumann 1997 Susan J. Friedlander M. Beth Ruskai Richard M. Schoen 1998 Steven George Krantz Alan C. Tucker Masamichi Takesaki 1997 Susan Landau Michael E. Taylor 1998 Thomas H. Wolff 1999 4.2.13. Proceedings Zhihong (Jeff) Xia 1997 Dale Alspach 1999 Don Zagier 1998 Albert Baernstein 1999 E®m Zelmanov 1997 Coordinating Eric D. Bedford 2000 Robert J. Zimmer 1998 Steven R. Bell 2000 4.2.7. Graduate Studies in Mathematics John Burns 1999 Suncica Canic 2000 Chair James E. Humphreys 1997 David J. Saltman 1999 R. Cohen 2000 David Sattinger 1998 Christopher Croke 1999 Julius L. Shaneson 1998 J. Dodziuk 2000 Ron Donagi 1999 4.2.8. Journal of the AMS Alan Dow 1999 Chair William Fulton 1998 Chair Clifford J. Earle, Jr. 2000 Benedict H. Gross 1999 Ron Fintushel 1999 Andrew M. Odlyzko 1997 Theodore W. Gamelin 1998 Elias M. Stein 1998 Frederick W. Gehring 2000 Clifford Taubes 1997 Coordinating James G. Glimm 1999 Associate Editors Kenneth R. Goodearl 2000 Roe Goodman 1999 James G. Arthur 1999 Dusa McDuff 1997 Thomas Goodwillie 1999 Alexander Beilinson 1997 Curtis McMullen 1999 Dennis A. Hejhal 1999 Persi W. Diaconis 1997 Marina Ratner 1997 Carl Jockusch, Jr. 2000 Michael J. Hopkins 1999 Richard Schoen 1997 Jeffry Kahn 1997 Henryk Iwaniec 1999 Richard P. Stanley 1997 Sergio Klainerman 1998 Gang Tian 1997 Coordinating Linda Keen 1997 Robert Lazarsfeld 1999 W. Hugh Woodin 1999 David R. Larson 2000 Coordinating Peter W. K. Li 1998 4.2.9. Mathematical Reviews Wei Y. Loh 1999 AMS staff contact: R. Keith Dennis. J. Rauch 1997 Jonathan L. Alperin 1997 Mary Rees 1997 Jean-Louis Loday 1999 David Rohrlich 2000 Joyce McLaughlin 1999 Leslie Saper 1999 Chair Hugh L. Montgomery 1998 Stanley A. Sawyer 1998 Clarence Wilkerson 1998 David Sharp 1999 1997 Coordinating Lance W. Small 1999 4.2.10. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Hal L. Smith 1999 Christopher D. Sogge 1997 Howard A. Masur 1997 Ronald M. Solomon 1998 Chair Tudor Stefan Ratiu 1997 Wolmer V. Vasconcelos 1999 Michael Renardy 1998 4.2.11. Mathematics of Computation 4.2.14. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Andrew M. Odlyzko 1997 Mathematics Stanley J. Osher 1998 Chair Peter S. Constantin 1998 G. W. Stewart 1998 LÂaszloLov Âasz 1997 Chair Lars B. Wahlbin 1997 Eitan Tadmor 1999 974 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 44, NUMBER 8 Of®cers and Committee Members 4.2.15. Transactions and Memoirs 4.2.24. Member CD-ROM Rodrigo Banuelos 1999 Augustin Banyaga William Beckner 1998 Chair Harold P. Boas Daniel M. Burns 1998 Joseph Lipman Lawrence Ein 1998 Stanley A. Sawyer Philip J. Hanlon 1999 William P. Ziemer John Luecke 2000 John J. Mallet-Paret 1999 Stewart B. Priddy 1999 4.2.25. Special Donations of Publications Daniel Jay Rudolph 1997 AMS staff contact: Galina Kovaleva. Chair Peter B. Shalen 1999 Alejandro de Acosta Alice Silverberg 1999 Theodore Slaman 2000 PeterW.K.Li Robert J. Stanton 1997 Chair Daniel W.
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