The 2005 Notices Index

January issue: 1–192 May issue: 497–592 October issue: 1001–1168 February issue: 193–312 June/July issue: 593–712 November issue: 1169–1312 March issue: 313–392 August issue: 713–824 December issue: 1313–1464 April issue: 393–496 September issue: 825–1000

Index Section Page Number AMS Assists Mathematicians Affected by Hurricane, 1364 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 463 The AMS 1443 AMS Congressional Lunch Briefing, 72 Announcements 1444 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1064 Authors of Articles 1446 Deaths of Members of the Society 1447 AMS Establishes Robbins Prize, 1066 Education 1448 AMS Holds Workshop for Department Chairs, 553 Feature Articles 1448 AMS President’s Address at Abel Celebration, 745 Letters to the Editor 1450 AMS Prizes Awarded in Atlanta, 439–458 Mathematicians 1450 AMS Scholarships for Math in Moscow, 766 Articles 1453 AMS Short Course in San Antonio, 1102 Mathematics History 1454 AMS Sponsors Mass Media Fellow, 659 Meetings Information 1454 AMS Sponsors NExT Fellows, 358 Memorial Articles 1455 AMS Website Connects Math and the Public, 219 New Publications Offered by the AMS 1455 Biographies of Candidates 2005, 920 Officers and Committee Members 1455 Breaking News, 321 Opinion 1455 Brought to You by…AMS Staff, 58 Opportunities 1455 Bylaws of the American Mathematical Society, 1239 Prizes and Awards 1456 Call for the 2007 Summer Research Conferences Propos- The Profession 1458 als, 1115 Reference and Book List 1458 Call for Applications for Mathematical Reviews Associate Reviews 1458 Editor Position, 937 Surveys 1458 Call for Nominations for 2005 Frank and Brennie Morgan Tables of Contents 1459 AMS-MAA-SIAM Prize for Outstanding Research in Math- ematics by an Undergraduate Student, 469 About the Cover Call for Nominations for 2006 Prize, 61, 198, 323, 438, 557, 611, 727, 840, 1104, 1215, 1329 Frank Nelson Cole Prizes, Levi L. Conant Prize, Distin- guished Public Service Award, 468 The AMS Call for Nominations for AMS Award for Exemplary Pro- 2004 AMS Election Results, 284 grams, 213, 318 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Re- Call for Nominations for D. R. Fulkerson Prize, 1375 port), 236 Call for Nominations for Leroy P. Steele Prizes, 283, 364 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Call for Proposals for the 2007 von Neumann Symposium, Report), 747 984 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third Call for Suggestions for 2005 AMS Elections, 285 Report), 871 Contacting the Notices/Information for Notices Authors, 2005 American Mathematical Society Election (Special Sec- 660 tion), 913 “Current Events” Session at Joint Meetings, 72 2005 AMS Election (Nominations by Petition), 286 Deaths of AMS Members, 74, 359, 553, 659, 768, 890, 2005 AMS Menger Awards, 884 1221, 1368 2005–2006 AMS Centennial Fellowships Awarded, 653 Einstein Public Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences, 831, 2006 AMS Election (Nominations by Petition), 935 1007 Acknowledgment of Contributions, 558 Ellen Maycock Joins AMS Executive Staff, 889 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Epsilon Awards for 2005, 658 886, 1216 Epsilon Memorial Scholarships Awarded for 2005, 1220 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowships, 1064 Fan China Exchange Program Names Awardees, 658 AMS Advocates Research Funding, 890 General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences of AMS Announces Congressional Fellow, 768 the AMS, 100

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Login Now Required for Online Notices, 553 AMS Congressional Lunch Briefing, 72 Math in Moscow Scholarships Awarded, 254, 768 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1064 Mathematical Sciences Employment Center in San Antonio, AMS Establishes Robbins Prize, 1066 973, 1105 AMS Holds Workshop for Department Chairs, 553 MathSciNet Matters, 62, 459, 650, 1061 AMS Scholarships for Math in Moscow, 766 Meetings and Conferences of the AMS, 101, 297, 379, 485, AMS Sponsors Mass Media Fellow, 659 583, 695, 807, 985, 1117, 1299, 1433 AMS Sponsors NExT Fellows, 358 My Summer at Scientific American, 73 AP Calculus Readers Sought, 463 New Publications Offered by the AMS, 83, 292, 373, 479, AWM Collaborative Research Grants for Women, 67 571, 676, 790, 958, 1089, 1265, 1384 AWM Essay Contest, 1218 Officers and Committee Members, 1073 AWM Essay Contest Winners Announced, 462 Officers of the Society 2004 and 2005 Updates, 564 AWM Prizes Presented in Atlanta, 545 (A) Photographic Look at the Joint Meetings, Atlanta 2005, AWM Travel Grants for Women, 888 397 Bañuelos Awarded Blackwell-Tapia Prize, 252 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation Awards, 1364 Ben Green Awarded 2005 Salem Prize, 884 Presenters of Papers and Program of Sessions, Atlanta Bhargava Receives Blumenthal Prize, 461 Meeting, 114 B. H. Neumann Awards Given, 1364 Presidential Reflections: Interview with , 216 Birgé Awarded Brouwer Medal, 654 Presidential Views: Interview with James Arthur, 350 Bos Awarded 2005 May Prize, 1363 Reciprocity Agreements, 1227 Boyd Awarded CRM-Fields Prize, 548 Report of the Executive Director, State of AMS, 2005, 776 Call for the 2007 Summer Research Conferences Propos- Report of the Treasurer (2004), 780 als, 1115 San Antonio Meeting Registration Forms, 1165, 1309, 1461 Call for Nominations for 2005 Frank and Brennie Morgan San Antonio Meeting Timetable, 1154 AMS-MAA-SIAM Prize for Outstanding Research in Math- Statistics on Women Mathematicians Compiled by the ematics by an Undergraduate Student, 469 AMS, 1084 Call for Nominations for AMS Award for Exemplary Pro- Teachers, Exams, Standards: AMS Committee on Education grams, 213, 318 Examines Issues, 234 Call for Nominations for Distinguished Public Service Ten Years of the “New” Notices, 54 Award, 468 Tenth Anniversary Issue, 7 Call for Nominations for D. R. Fulkerson Prize, 1375 Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards Presented, 358 Call for Nominations for Frank Nelson Cole Prizes, 468 Where Do Notices Covers Come From?, 727 Call for Nominations for George David Birkhoff Prize, 468 Workshop on the Mathematics Major, 1220 Call for Nominations for the ICTP/IMU Ramanujan Prize, Announcements 656 Call for Nominations for Information-Based Complexity 2004 Morgan Prize, 457 2005 AMS Menger Awards, 884 Prize, 356 2005 Bôcher Prize, 443 Call for Nominations for Leroy P. Steele Prizes, 283, 364 2005 Book Prize, 449 Call for Nominations for Levi L. Conant Prize, 468 2005 Cole Prize in Number Theory, 445 Call for Nominations for Lucien Godeaux Prize, 355 2005 Conant Prize, 454 Call for Nominations for Sloan Fellowships, 656 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad, 1213 Call for Nominations for Third World Academy of Sci- 2005 JPBM Communications Award, 541 ences Prizes, 1218 2005 Satter Prize, 447 Call for Nominations for Waterman Award, 1218 2005 Steele Prizes, 439 Call for Nominations: Monroe H. Martin Prize, 67 2005 Whiteman Prize, 451 Call for Proposals for 2006 NSF-CBMS Regional Confer- 2005–2006 AMS Centennial Fellowships Awarded, 653 ences, 255 AAAS Fellows Elected, 65 Call for Proposals for the 2007 von Neumann Symposium, AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants, 984 1217 Call for Submissions for Sunyer i Balaguer Prize, 767 ADVANCE: New NSF Program to Increase Women’s Par- Cerf and Kahn Receive Turing Award, 653 ticipation, 656 Clay Mathematics Institute 2005 Summer School, 256 AIM Five-Year Fellow Announced, 549 Clay Research Award Winners Announced, 252 American Academy Elections, 764 Clay Research Fellow Nominations, 1065 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences, 354 886, 1216 Comments on Female Math Ability Spark Reaction, 552 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowships, 1064 “Current Events” Session at Joint Meetings, 72 AMS Advocates Research Funding, 890 Deadlines and Target Dates at the DMS, 66 AMS Announces Congressional Fellow, 768 de Boor and Luce Receive National Medal of Science, 634 AMS Assists Mathematicians Affected by Hurricane, 1368 Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 70

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Distinguished International Postdoctoral Research Fel- National Academy of Sciences Elections, 764 lowships, 887 National High School Calculus Award, 1364 DMS Employment Opportunities, 357 NDSEG Fellowships Awarded, 1363 DMS Focus on Stochastic Systems, 1217 News from AIM, 1219 DMS Special Meetings Competition, 888 News from the Clay Mathematics Institute, 657 DMV Awards Media and Journalism Prizes, 254 News from the CRM Montreal, 1366 EDGE Summer Program, 1365 News from The Fields Institute, 551, 1218 Edwards and Lee Awarded 2005 Dirac Medals, 1211 News from the IMA, 68, 1065 Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics, 831, 1007 News from the Institut Mittag-Leffler, 1219 Ellen Maycock Joins AMS Executive Staff, 889 News from MSRI, 356 Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in the News from Oberwolfach, 69, 551 Twenty-First Century, 550, 1064 News from SAMSI, 257 Epsilon Awards for 2005, 658 Newton Fellowship Program, 1366 Epsilon Memorial Scholarships Awarded for 2005, 1220 Nominations Sought for 2005 IBC Young Researcher Award, European Mathematical Society Announces New Article 767 Competitions, 355 NRC-Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, 1365 Everett Pitcher Lectures, 357 NRC-Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities, 67 Fan China Exchange Program Names Awardees, 658 NRC-Ford Foundation Minority Fellowships Awarded, 253 Fedkiw Receives NAS Award for Initiatives in Research, 548 NSA Grant and Sabbatical Programs, 886 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prizes Awarded, 764 NSF Career Awards for 2004, 64 Fulbright Awards Announced, 655 NSF CAREER Program Guidelines Available, 656 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded, 655 NSF-CBMS Regional Conferences, 2005, 256 Haggstrom and O’Connell Awarded Rollo Davidson Prizes, NSF Computing Equipment and Instrumentation Programs, 764 356 Harrison Awarded von Neumann Prize, 461 NSF Focused Research Groups, 766 Heinrich and Liu Receive 2005 CMS Awards, 1363 NSF Graduate Fellowships, 887 Hintikka and Caffarelli Receive Rolf Schock Prizes, 762 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, 1216 Hirzebruch Awarded Cantor Medal, 253 NSF Graduate Teaching Fellowships in K–12 Education, Hughes Receives AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, 548 550 Humboldt Foundation Research Awards, 885 NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Train- ICIAM Establishes Su Buchin Prize, 357 ing, 255 ICM 2006 Travel Grants, 1216 NSF International Research Fellow Awards, 887 Intel Science Talent Search Winners Announced, 655 NSF Launches Math Website, 657 International Mathematics Competition for University Stu- NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- dents, 354 ships, 766 Izumi Awarded Operator Algebra Prize, 253 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships, 64 Joel E. Schneider (1943–2004), 65 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded, 1213 Klartag and Speyer Named Clay Research Fellows, 654 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, 550 Lalonde Named Director of CRM, 70 NSF Program in Mathematical, Social, and Behavioral Sci- Lander Receives Public Understanding Award, 548 ences, 463 Lax Receives Abel Prize, 632 ONR Young Investigator Award, 1213 Lemieux and Dick Win Information-Based Complexity ONR Young Investigator Program, 67 Young Researcher Award, 353 Packard Fellowships Awarded, 549 Levin Receives 2005 Kyoto Prize, 1059 Papikian Awarded Emil Artin Junior Prize, 254 LMS Prizes Announced, 1062 Parisi Awarded 2005 Heineman Prize, 653 Login Now Required for Online Notices, 553 PECASE Awards Announced, 1062 MAA Prizes Presented in Atlanta, 543 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation Awards, 1364 MAA Writing Awards Presented, 1211 Plenary Speakers for ICM 2006, Madrid, 1214 Mandelbrot Receives Sierpinski Prize, 1213 Presidential Mentoring Awards Announced, 763 Margulis and Novikov Receive 2005 Wolf Prize, 539 Prizes of the Mathematical Society of Japan, 462 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award, 463 Professor of the Year Awards, 353 Math in Moscow Scholarships Awarded, 254, 768 Project NExT: New Experiences in Teaching, 354 Mathematics Awareness Month 2005, 258 Putnam Prizes Awarded, 764 Mazya Awarded Celsius Gold Medal, 549 Ramanujan Prize Established, 70 McCallum and Ono Named Distinguished Teaching Schol- Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 888 ars, 1062 Research Opportunities for U.S. Graduate Students in Asia National Academies Graduate Fellowship Program, 256 and Australia, 1217 National Academies Research Associateship Programs, Return of the CBMS Survey, 258 255 Royal Society of Canada Elections, 1063 National Academy of Engineering Elections, 655 Royal Society of London Elections, 885

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SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, 551 Giroux, Emmanuel, 42 SIAM Prizes Awarded, 1212 Gompf, Robert E., 848 Sloan Fellows Announced, 654 Goresky, Mark, 859 Sloan Receives 2005 Information-Based Complexity Prize, Grossman, Jerrold W., 35 763 Hill, Richard O., 1317 Special Meetings in the Mathematical Sciences, 657 Jackson, Allyn, 54, 216, 219, 234, 350, 546, 552, 602, 623, Stein Receives Bergman Prize, 460 637, 1010, 1059, 1330 Stuart and Dafermos Win Adams Prize, 1062 Jones, Alexander, 520 Summer Program for Women Undergraduates, 355 Kato, Fumiharu, 720 Three NSF Institutes Pass Five-Year Renewal, 1367 Kenschaft, Patricia Clark, 208 Travel Grants for ICM 2006, Madrid, 887 Kenyon, Richard, 342 Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards Presented, 358 Khesin, Boris, 9 TV Program Featuring Mathematician, 259 Kilpatrick, Jeremy, 1055 TWAS Prizes Announced, 353 Kirkman, Ellen E., 236, 747, 871 University-Industry Cooperative Research Programs in the Krieger, Martin H., 334 Mathematical Sciences (UICRP), 66 Kuo, Frances Y., 1320 USA Mathematical Olympiad, 765 Lang, Serge, 612 Vakil Awarded André Aisenstadt Prize, 654 Lappan, Glenda, 1005 Varga Awarded Hans Schneider Prize, 884 Lubotzky, Alex, 626 Werner Awarded 2005 Loéve Prize, 1211 Mackey, Michael C., 832 Wiles Receives 2005 Shaw Prize, 869 Magid, Andy, 7, 321, 635, 1173 Workshop on the Mathematics Major, 1220 Markowsky, George, 344 Young Mathematician Honored in Siemens Westinghouse Marsden, Jerrold E., 324 Competition, 353 Mawhin, Jean, 1036 Maxwell, James W., 236, 747, 871 Authors of Articles Milgram, R. James, 1055 Adam, John A., 402 Miner, Robert, 532 Aldous, David, 1357 Moore, Gregory W., 214 Arthur, James, 745 Morgan, Frank, 44, 853 Artzt, Alice F., 48 Mumford, David, 526 Austin, David, 600 Nuyens, Dirk, 1329 Bailey, David H., 502 Okounkov, Andrei, 342 Ball, Deborah Loewenberg, 1055 Osserman, Robert, 417, 1030 Ball, John, 1208 Persson, Ulf, 1046 Bloch, Anthony M., 324 Pitman, Jim, 1357 Borwein, Jonathan M., 502 Porter, Mason A., 1020 Brüning, Jochen, 435 Quinn, Frank, 399 Carlson, Jon F., 426 Quinn, Helen R., 197 Casey, Charles P., 197 Rankin, Samuel M., III, 642 Casselman, Bill, 518, 557 Raussen, Martin, 225 Conway, John B., 646 Renteln, Paul, 24 Cornelissen, Gunther, 720 Reys, Barbara, 1005 Cox, David A., 1193 Reys, Robert, 1005 Cvitanovic´, Predrag, 1020 Richert, Norman, 62, 459, 650, 1061 Davies, Brian, 1350 Roitman, Judith, 501 Derksen, Harm, 200 Rose, Colleen A., 236, 747, 871 Diaconis, Persi, 1348 Rosenau, Philip, 738 Donaldson, Simon K., 1026 Rundell, William, 1052 Dundes, Alan, 24 Santillán, Moisés, 832 Durrett, Rick, 743 Schaar, Richard, 717, 1055 Eisenbud, David, 197 Schmid, Wilfried, 1055 Emerson, Annette, 58 Scott, Leonard, 728 Ewing, John, 776 Shallit, Jeffrey, 863 Ferrini-Mundy, Joan, 1055 Shub, Michael, 516 Fintushel, Ronald, 348 Skau, Christian, 225 Fokas, A. S., 1178 Sleeman, Brian D., 628 Fowler, Kristine K., 1203 Slimowitz, Jennifer, 829 Friedberg, Solomon, 842 Sloan, Ian H., 1320 Friedlander, Susan, 859 Small, Lance, 1340 Gardner, Martin, 1344 Solomon, Ronald, 728

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Sossinsky, Alexey, 866 597; Richard Schaar (Mathematics in Public), 717; Jen- Sultan, Alan, 48 nifer Slimowitz and Scott Weidman (What Mathematics Sung, L.-Y., 1178 Is Required to Make Use of Genomic Data?), 829; Glenda Sturmfels, Bernd, 1199 Lappan, Barbara Reys, Robert Reys (Mathematics Cur- Thompson, John, 728 riculum: Essential Knowledge for Mathematicians Work- Tondeur, Philippe, 597 ing to Improve K–12 Education), 1005; Richard O. Hill Trout, Jody, 740 (Future High-School Math Teachers and Upper-Level Walter, John, 728 Math Courses), 1317 Weidman, Scott, 829 Theater Review: Reviewed by Andy Magid (The Panel), 635 Wells, Robert D., 197 Weyman, Jerzy, 200 Conferences of the AMS Wilson, Robin, 1201 AMS Short Course in San Antonio, 1102 Wood, Carol, 501 Call for the 2007 Summer Research Conferences Propos- Zelmanov, Efim, 728 als, 1115 Zenkov, Dmitry V., 324 Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Ziegler, Günter M., 221 Sciences (2005), 191, 311, 392, 496, 592, 712, 824 Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals, 896 Sciences (2006), 1296, 1311, 1463 Summer Research Institute on (2005), Classified Advertisements 191, 311, 392, 496, 592, 712, 824 89, 295, 377, 484, 577, 689, 803, 965, 1094, 1280, 1390 Conferences (Other) Commentary 22nd Annual Workshop on Mathematical Problems in In- Book Reviews: Reviewed by Frank Morgan (Kepler’s Con- dustry, June 12–16, 2006, Olin College, Needham, MA, jecture and Hales’s Proof), 44; Reviewed by Günter M. 1311, 1463 Ziegler (…a small idea of what it is I do all day…Intro- Fifth Conference on Poisson Geometry, Tokyo (2006), 191, ductions to Mathematics), 221; Reviewed by George 311, 392, 496, 592, 712 Markowsky (The Golden Ratio), 344; Reviewed by Jochen ICM 2006 (second announcement), 1409 Brüning (Mathematicians under the Nazis), 435; Re- ICM 2006 Travel Grant Application, 970 viewed by Alexander Jones (The Works of Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, Volume 1: The Two Corrections Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder), 520; Reviewed Correction to Contact Information for Mathematics Insti- by Brian D. Sleeman (Mathematics in Nature: Modeling tutes, 1219 Patterns in the Natural World), 628; Reviewed by Jody Correction to “Has the Women-in-Mathematics Problem Trout (Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension), Been Solved?”, 71 740; Reviewed by Rick Durrett (Chance: A Guide to Correction to “Lévy Processes—From Probability to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Finance and Quantum Groups”, 71 Everything Else), 743; Reviewed by Jeffrey Shallit (Math- Correction to Paul Renteln and Alan Dundes article, 400 ematics by Experiment and Experimentation in Mathe- Correction to Photo Caption, 830 matics), 863; Reviewed by Alexey Sossinsky (Knots for Correction to September Mackey/Santillán Article, 1219 Everyone: The Knot Book), 866; Reviewed by Robert Osserman (János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Crossword Puzzle, 63, 761 the Nature of Space), 1030; Reviewed by Robin Wilson (The Oxford Murders), 1201; Reviewed by Martin Gard- Deaths of AMS Members ner (Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Antimirov, Maximilian Y., 1221 Really Know?), 1344; Reviewed by Lance W. Small (Saun- Badalyan, Hayk, 553 ders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography) and (A3 Banks, Dallas O., 659 & His Algebra: How a Boy from Chicago’s West Side Be- Bari, Ruth A., 1221 came a Force in American Mathematics), 1340 Beard, Helen P., 659 Letter from the Editor: Andy Magid (Tenth Anniversary Beth, Thomas, 1368 Issue), 7; (Breaking News), 321; (Graduate Students and Bogart, Kenneth P., 659 Applications), 1173 Botts, Truman, 659 Letters to the Editor, 8, 198, 322, 400, 598, 718, 830, 1006, Brachman, Malcolm K., 553 1174 Bruning, Linda M., 1221 Opinion: Charles P. Casey, Helen R. Quinn, Robert D. Wells, Charatonik, Janusz J., 74 David Eisenbud (Gambling with U.S. Science), 197; Frank Chern, Shiing-shen, 359 Quinn (The K–12 Math Test Conundrum), 399; Judith Civin, Paul, 890 Roitman and Carol Wood (Gender and Mathematics— Dantzig, George B., 768 Again), 501; Philippe Tondeur (NSF—A Wake-up Call), Drew, Gerald C., 1221

DECEMBER 2005 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1447 2005 Index

Epstein, Bernard, 659 Zukanovic, Osman, 1221 Feldman, Chester, 1221 Ferguson, Pamela, 1368 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2003–2004, 264 Frayne, Thomas E., 1221 Supplementary List, 759 Frech, Bruce, 659 Fulton, Robert, 659 Education Gatermann, Karin, 359 Graduate Students and Applications (Letter from the Gilbert, Jimmie D., 768 Editor), 1173 Godwin, H. J., 768 Future High-School Math Teachers and Upper-Level Math Goldstein, Herbert, 659 Courses (Richard O. Hill), 1317 Gruter, Michael, 359 (The) K–12 Math Test Conundrum, 399 Gulden, Samuel L., 1221 Mathematicians Are from Mars, Math Educators Are from Hancock, J. Harrison, 359 Venus: The Story of a Successful Collaboration (Alan Sul- Hanna, J. Ray, 659 tan, Alice F. Artzt), 48 Hanna, Peter, 659 Mathematics Curriculum: Essential Knowledge for Math- Harary, Frank, 359 ematicians Working to Improve K–12 Education (Glenda Hay, George E., 659 Lappan, Barbara Reys, Robert Reys), 1005 Hershner, Ivan R., Jr., 1221 Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teach- Jacob, Henry G., 1221 ers More Mathematics, 208 Kaput, James J., 1221 Reaching for Common Ground in K–12 Mathematics Edu- Kent, Jack T., 890 cation (Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Kowalik, Virgil C., 659 Jeremy Kilpatrick, R. James Milgram, Wilfried Schmid, Krabbe, Gregers, 359 Richard Schaar), 1055 Lefebvre, Jean E., 359 Teachers, Exams, Standards: AMS Committee on Education Lipps, Frederick W., 359 Examines Issues (Allyn Jackson), 234 Low, Emmet F., Jr., 74 Teaching Mathematics Graduate Students How to Teach, Mao, Zhenxiu, 659 842 McBrien, Vincent, 553 Metzger, Thomas A., 659 Election Information (AMS) Mis¸icu, Mircea, 659 2005 American Mathematical Society Election (Special Sec- Moller, Raymond W., 1221 tion), 913 Molloy, Marilyn, 553 Biographies of Candidates 2005, 920 Morrison, Donald R., 553 Nominations for President Elect, 916 Nagase, Michihiro, 659 Nordhaus, Edward A., 659 Employment Center Oehmke, Robert H., 890 Mathematical Sciences Employment Center, 973, 1105 Pashler, Daniel Tsur, 1221 Peglar, George W., 553 Mathematical Sciences Employment Center Forms, 978, Porter, James F., 890 1110 Redheffer, Raymond M., 890 Feature Articles Salkind, William, 890 Schild, Albert, 74 (A) 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics Schneider, Joel E., 65 (Martin H. Krieger), 334 Schomburg, Werner, 553 Cohomology, Computations, and Sentner, Nathan, 890 (Jon F. Carlson), 426 Shor, S. W. Williston, 1221 (A) Different Kind of Institute: The American Institute of Skrypnik, Igor V., 659 Mathematics (Allyn Jackson), 1330 Snover, James, 659 Experimental Mathematics: Examples, Methods and Im- Sterling, Theodor D., 659 plications (David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein), 502 Szekeres, George, 1368 Flowers of Ice—Beauty, Symmetry, and Complexity: A Re- Taibleson, Mitchell H., 1221 view of The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty (John A. Telega, Jozef Joachim, 553 Adam), 402 Tulipani, Sauro, 659 Foolproof: A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor (Paul Ugrin-Sparac, Dimitrije, 768 Renteln, Alan Dundes), 24 van Lint, Jacobus H., 659 Generalized Fourier Transforms, Their Nonlinearization Willmore, Thomas J., 890 and the Imaging of the Brain (A. S. Fokas, L.-Y. Sung), Wright, E. M., 768 1178 Yadrenko, Michajlo, 359 Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space Yarmush, David L., 74 with Atomic Physics (Mason A. Porter, Predrag Young, Gail S., 1221 Cvitanovic´), 1020

1448 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 52, NUMBER 11 2005 Index

(The) Importance of MathML to Mathematics Communi- Hamilton, Richard (Mainz, Germany), 108 cation (Robert Miner), 532 Hofmann, Steven C. (Notre Dame, IN), 818 Interview with Heisuke Hironaka (Allyn Jackson), 1010 Hopkins, Michael J. (Mainz, Germany), 108 Interview with Martin Gardner (Allyn Jackson), 602 Ivanov, Nikolai (Lubbock, TX), 106 Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality (Frances Y. Kuo, Jitomirskaya, Svetlana Y. (San Antonio, TX), 991 Ian H. Sloan), 1320 Jonsson, Mattias (Lubbock, TX), 106 Manifolds with Density (Frank Morgan), 853 Kaloshin, Vadim (San Francisco, CA), 708 Mathematics, Biology, and Physics: Interactions and In- Kapovich, Michael (Santa Barbara, CA), 583 terdependence (Michael C. Mackey, Moisés Santillán), 832 Kapovich, Mischa (Santa Barbara, CA), 107 Mathematics of the Heavens (Robert Osserman), 417 Kapranov, Mikhail (San Antonio, TX), 701 Nonholonomic Dynamics (Anthony M. Bloch, Jerrold E. Kra, Bryna R. (Cincinnati, OH), 820 Marsden, Dmitry V. Zenkov), 324 Krattenthaler, Christian (Mainz, Germany), 108 On the AMS Notices Publication of Krieger’s Translation of Laba, Izabella Joanna (Salt Lake City, UT), 708 Weil’s 1940 Letter (Serge Lang), 612 Larsen, Michael (Notre Dame, IN), 818 (The) p-adic Icosahedron (Gunther Cornelissen, Fumiharu Lenstra, Hendrik W., Jr. (San Antonio, TX), 701 Kato), 720 Lin, Chang-Shou (Taiwan), 700 Patterns of Research in Mathematics (Jerrold W. Grossman), Long, Darren (Salt Lake City, UT), 708 35 Lovász, László (San Antonio, TX), 1121 Quiver Representations (Harm Derksen, Jerzy Weyman), Lubotzky, Alexander (Newark, DE), 105 200 Mandelbrot, Benoit B. (San Francisco, CA), 819 Racial Equity Requires Teaching Elementary School Teach- Masur, Howard A. (Lincoln, NE), 110 ers More Mathematics (Patricia Clark Kenschaft), 208 McCann, Robert (Bowling Green, KY), 103 Teaching Mathematics Graduate Students How to Teach McDuff, Dusa (San Antonio, TX), 588 (Solomon Friedberg), 842 Megginson, Robert E. (San Antonio, TX), 701 Topological Fluid Dynamics (Boris Khesin), 9 Miller, Ezra N. (Cincinnati, OH), 820 Walter Feit (1930–2004) (Leonard Scott, Ronald Solomon, Monod, Nicolas (Lubbock, TX), 106 John Thompson, John Walter, Efim Zelmanov), 728 Montgomery, M. Susan (Bowling Green, KY), 103 What Is the Role of Algebra in Applied Mathematics? Nahmod, Andrea R. (Miami, FL), 1148 (David A. Cox), 1193 Naor, Assaf (Johnson City, TN), 306 Natterer, Frank (Mainz, Germany), 108 Invited Speakers Nikshych, Dmitri (Durham, NH), 708 Anstee, Richard P. (Fayetteville, AR), 996 Odell, Edward (Miami, FL), 993 Arnold, Douglas N. (Notre Dame, IN), 818 Oh, Hee (Lubbock, TX), 106 Arveson, William (Salt Lake City, UT), 708 Parshall, Karen H. (Miami, FL), 993 Atiyah, Michael (Lincoln, NE), 812 Peres, Yuval (San Francisco, CA), 708 Bollobás, Béla (Notre Dame, IN), 818 Pop, Florian (Durham, NH), 708 Borodin, Alexei (Salt Lake City, UT), 708 Putinar, Mihai (Santa Barbara, CA), 107 Bressan, Alberto (Johnson City, TN), 306 Ram, Arun (Fayetteville, AR), 996 Canic, Suncica (Cincinnati, OH), 820 Rosenberg, Harold (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 109 Chamberland, Marc (San Antonio, TX), 1124 Saari, Donald G. (Fayetteville, AR), 996 Chang, Mei-Chu (Santa Barbara, CA), 107 Savageau, Michael (San Antonio, TX), 816 Chayes, Lincoln (San Francisco, CA), 708 Schlag, Wilhelm (Eugene, OR), 110 Chen, Xiuxiong (Newark, DE), 105 Schoen, Richard M. (Taiwan), 700 Cheng, Ching-Shui (Taiwan), 700 Schwachhoefer, Lorenz (Newark, DE), 105 Chow, Bennett (Bowling Green, KY), 103 Sethian, James (Santa Barbara, CA), 107 Devlin, Keith J. (San Antonio, TX), 701 Silverberg, Alice (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 109 Diaconis, Persi (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 109 Skinner, Christopher M. (Notre Dame, IN), 818 Edelsbrunner, Herbert (San Antonio, TX), 701 Smith, Hart F. (Eugene, OR), 110 Ein, Lawrence (Taiwan), 700 Sogge, Christopher (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 109 Eisenbud, David (San Antonio, TX), 701 Su, Francis Edward (San Antonio, TX), 701 Esnault, Hélène (Mainz, Germany), 108 Sudakov, Benjamin (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 109 Fefferman, Charles L. (San Antonio, TX), 588 Tetali, Prasad V. (Johnson City, TN), 306 Fisher, Naomi (San Antonio, TX), 701 Thomas, Rekha R. (Johnson City, TN), 306 Foreman, Matthew (Eugene, OR), 110 Trivisa, Konstantina (Durham, NH), 708 Fraser, Ailana M. (Durham, NH), 708 Uribe, Alejandro (Lincoln, NE), 110 Gilbert, Anna C. (Newark, DE), 105 Vasy, Andras (Fayetteville, AR), 996 Graham, C. Robin (San Francisco, CA), 708 Vogelius, Michael S. (Miami, FL), 993 Green, Ben (San Antonio, TX), 1124 Walker, Judy (Lincoln, NE), 110 Haiman, Mark (Eugene, OR), 110 Wolfson, Jon G. (Cincinnati, OH), 820

DECEMBER 2005 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1449 2005 Index

Xin, Jack (Lincoln, NE), 110 Samuel, Pierre (Grothendieck’s Environmental Inspiration), Yau, Horng-Tzer (Mainz, Germany), 108 322 Yu, Jing (Taiwan), 700 Sidman, Jessica (The Two-Body Problem), 198 Yu, Jiu-Kang (Taiwan), 700 Tseng, Jim (The “What Is?” Column), 199 Zhang, James J. (Bowling Green, KY), 103 Ward, Tom (A Connected Department), 598 Zitarelli, David E. (Foreign-Born Presidents), 598 Letters to the Editor Adler, Allan (Ph.D.’s and the K–12 Classroom), 198 Mathematicians Akbulut, Selman (End Torture and Detention), 1006 Agol, Ian (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 Berg, I. David (Gender Studies), 830 Akahira, Masafumi (MSJ Analysis Prize), 462 Bhat, V. K. (Discrete Math Course), 8 Alexanderson, Gerald L. (2005 MAA Gung and Hu Award), Braver, Seth (History of Mathematics from a Mathemati- 543; (2005 MAA Haimo Award), 543 cian’s Vantage Point), 718 Ambrosetti, Antonio (2005 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize), Brown, Ronald (Origins of Grothendieck’s Pursuing Stacks), 764 830 Apostol, Tom (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 Chew, John (Origins of an Anecdote), 400 Arakawa, Tomoyuki (MSJ Takebe Senior Prize), 462 Cohn, Paul M. (Memories of Grothendieck), 8 Arthur, James (Presidential Views: Interview), 350 Dawson, Robert (Mathematical Jokes), 400 Atiyah, Michael (Interview), 225 Dundes, Alan (Dundes and Renteln Reply), 400 Auroux, Denis (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Egilsson, Agust (A World without Mathematics…), 322 Babuska, Ivo M. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- Etingof, Pavel (Post Papers Online to Benefit Mathemati- tions), 655 cians in Poor Countries), 322 Baik, Jinho (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Ewing, John (Reply to Braver), 719 Ballantine, Cristina M. (Fulbright Award), 655 Gale, David (Gale Responds to Karp), 323 Bañuelos, Rodrigo (Blackwell-Tapia Prize), 252 Gauthier, Paul (End Torture and Detention), 1006 Baouendi, M. Salah (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elections), 764 Gray, Mary (End Torture and Detention), 1006 Barlow, Martin T. (Royal Society of London Elections), 885 Hill, Theodore P. (Review of the Golden Ratio), 598 Barton, Reid W. (2004 Morgan Prize), 457; (Putnam Prize), Kalka, Morris (Contacting Tulane Mathematicians), 1318 764 Karp, Dagan (More on Underrepresentation), 322 Barzov, Vladimir V. (Putnam Prize), 764 Kazanjian, Michael M. (Nonmathematicians Need Mathe- Berger, Marsha J. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- matics, Too), 1174 tions), 655 Kessel, Cathy (Citing “The Mathematical Education of Berry, Michael (2005 LMS Pólya Prize), 1062 Teachers”), 322 Bertsimas, Dimitris J. (National Academy of Engineering Knapp, Anthony W. (Weil’s Letter to His Sister), 598 Elections), 655 Liggett, Thomas M. (A Textbook Editions Policy), 830 Bhargava, Manjul (Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Lorch, Lee (Learned Societies and the War on Terror), 400 Award), 461; (Packard Fellowship), 549 Lubinsky, D. S. (Conditions Facing Israeli Universities), Birgé, Lucien (2005 L. E. J. Brouwer Medal), 654 719 Blum, Lenore (2004 Presidential Mentoring Award), 763 Markowsky, George (Reply to Hill), 598 Bos, Henk (2005 Kenneth O. May Prize), 1363 McKean, Henry (Consequences of Excluding Religious Com- Bott, Raoul (Royal Society of London Elections), 885 ments in Obituaries), 598 Boyd, David (2005 CRM-Fields Prize), 548 Medina, Herbert A. (Reply to Gale), 8 Braman, Karen (SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize), 1212 Milne, J. S. (What Summers Said), 719 Brandt, Achi (SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science Misiurewicz, Michal (The Message of “Who Wants to Be a and Engineering), 1212 Mathematician”), 1006 Brenner, Susanne C. (Humboldt Foundation Research Nevai, Paul (Religion in the Notices), 199; (Conditions Award), 885 Facing Israeli Universities), 719 Brown, Frank L. H. (2004 PECASE Award), 1062 Okoh, Frank (Grothendieck at Queen’s), 199 Byers, Ralph (SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize), 1212 Olson, Jeffrey (Ad Reinhardt), 1006 Byrnes, Christopher I. (SIAM W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Perkel, Manley (No More Homework), 1318 Mathematics), 1212 Przeworska-Rolewicz, Danuta (Oberwolfach and Eastern Cable, Charles (2005 MAA Certificate of Meritorious Europe), 8 Service), 544 Quinn, Frank (Reply to Ralston), 599 Caffarelli, Luis A. (2005 Schock Prize), 762 Ralston, Anthony (High-Stakes Testing), 599 Calderbank, A. Robert (National Academy of Engineering Rao, M. M. (History, Mathematics, and Plagiarism), 1174 Elections), 655 Renardy, Michael (Hiding Homework from Google), 199 Candes, Emmanuel J. (SIAM James H. Wilkinson Prize in Renteln, Paul (Dundes and Renteln Reply), 400 Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing), 1212 Rieker, Joe (Hiring Should Be Fair), 1174 Caraiani, Ana (Putnam Prize and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Rolewicz, Stefan (Oberwolfach and Eastern Europe), 8 Prize), 764

1450 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 52, NUMBER 11 2005 Index

Carroll, Maureen (MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize), 1212 Friedman, Jerome H. (American Academy of Arts and Cerf, Vinton G. (Turing Award), 653 Sciences Elections), 764 Chan, Melody (2005 AWM Schafer Prize), 545 Furusho, Hidekazu (MSJ Takebe Junior Prize), 462 Chern, S.-S. (Memorial), 623 Galvin, William P. (2005 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), Chisholm, Malcolm H. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- 1211 tions), 764 Gelfand, Israel M. (2005 Steele Prize), 439 Choudhury, Dipa (Fulbright Award), 655 Gentle, James E. (AAAS Fellow), 65 Cipra, Barry (2005 JPBM Communications Award), 541 Ghosal, Subhashis (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Clarke, Edmund M. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- Ghys, Étienne (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), tions), 655 1214 Coad, Russell (2005 B. H. Neumann Award), 1364 Goldwasser, Shafrira (National Academy of Engineering Cohn, Henry (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 Elections), 655 Dafermos, Michail (2005 Adams Prize), 1062 Gordon, Iain (2005 LMS Berwick Prize), 1063 Daubechies, Ingrid (AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture), Gottlieb, Eric I. (Fulbright Award), 655 1212 Grabiner, Judith (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 Deal, Roy, Jr. (2005 MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service), Green, Ben (2004 Clay Research Award), 252; (Clay Re- 544 search Fellow), 654; (2005 Salem Prize), 884; (2005 LMS de Boor, Carl R. (National Medal of Science), 634 Whitehead Prize), 1063 Deift, Percy (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 Greenfield, Stephen J. (Professor of the Year Award), 353 DeLong, Matthew (MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distin- Greenwald, Sarah (MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distin- guished Teaching), 1212 guished Teaching), 1212 Demailly, Jean-Pierre (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Griffeath, David (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Madrid), 1214 Grodal, Jesper (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 DeMillo, Richard A. (AAAS Fellow), 65 Grünbaum, Branko (2005 Steele Prize), 439 Derksen, Harm (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Guentner, Erik (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Devaney, Robert L. (Professor of the Year Award), 353; (2005 Haggstrom, Olle (2005 Rollo Davidson Prize), 764 MAA Trevor Evans Award), 1211 Hallett, Deborah Hughes (2005 MAA Haimo Award), 543 DeVore, Ronald (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Hamilton, Richard (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 1214 Dick, Josef (Information-Based Complexity Young Hang, Fengbo (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Researcher Award), 353 Harrison, J. Michael (2004 Theory Di Toro, Dominic M. (National Academy of Engineering Prize), 461 Elections), 655 Harvey, George (2005 B. H. Neumann Award), 1364 Dong, Yuxin (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Hausel, Tamas (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Dougherty, Steven (MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize), 1212 Heinrich, Katherine (2005 CMS Adrien Pouliot Award), Driver, Bruce (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 1363 Edelman, Alan (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 Higgins, Aparna (2005 MAA Haimo Award), 543 Edelsbrunner, Herbert (American Academy of Arts and Higham, Desmond J. (SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize), Sciences Elections), 764 1212 Edwards, Harold (2005 Whiteman Prize), 451 Hintikka, Jaakko (2005 Schock Prize), 762 Edwards, Samuel F. (2005 Dirac Medal), 1211 Hironaka, Heisuke (Interview), 1010 Eggleton, Roger B. (2005 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), Hirzebruch, Friedrich (2004 Georg Cantor Medal), 253 1211 Hopkins, Brian (2005 MAA George Pólya Award), 1211 Eisenbud, David (Interview), 216 Hosaka, Tetsuya (MSJ Takebe Junior Prize), 462 Ekholm, Tobias (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Hu, Feifang (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Eliashberg, Yakov (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Hughes, Rhonda J. (2004 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award), 1214 548 Ellenberg, Jordan (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Hunter, John S. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- Epp, Susanna S. (2005 AWM Hay Award), 545 tions), 655 Ewing, John H. (AAAS Fellow), 65 Ionescu, Alexandru D. (Packard Fellowship), 549 Ewing, Richard E. (Humboldt Foundation Research Award), Ishida, Masashi (MSJ Takebe Senior Prize), 462 885 Iwaniec, Henryk (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Farkas, Gavril (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 1214 Fedkiw, Ronald (NAS Award for Initiatives in Research), 548 Iwasaki, Katsunori (MSJ Analysis Prize), 462 Feige, Uriel (SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize), 1212 Izu, Scott (NRC-Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship), Feit, Walter (Memorial), 728 253 Finch, Steven (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 Izumi, Masaki (Operator Algebra Prize), 253 Friedlander, Eric M. (American Academy of Arts and Jackson, David M. R. (2005 Royal Society of Canada Sciences Elections), 764 Elections), 1063

DECEMBER 2005 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1451 2005 Index

Jitomirskaya, Svetlana (2005 Satter Prize), 447 Malchiodi, Andrea (2005 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize), Johnson, Christopher R. (SIAM I. E. Block Community Lec- 764 ture), 1212 Mandelbrot, Benoit (2005 Sierpinski Prize), 1213 Johnstone, Iain M. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Margulis, Gregory A. (2005 Wolf Prize), 539 tions), 764; (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Marsden, Jerrold E. (SIAM John von Neumann Lecture- 1214 ship), 1212 Kahan, William M. (National Academy of Engineering Masser, David W. (Royal Society of London Elections), 885 Elections), 655 Mathias, Roy (SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize), 1212 Kahn, Robert E. (Turing Award), 653 Mattingly, Jonathan (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Kamada, Seiichi (MSJ Geometry Prize), 462 Maycock, Ellen (Joins AMS Executive Staff), 889 Kamnitzer, Joel (2005 AIM Five-Year Fellow), 549 Mazya, Vladimir (Celsius Gold Medal of the Royal Society Kane, Daniel M. (Putnam Prize), 764 of Sciences), 549 Kato, Kazuya (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 McCallum, William (NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholars Kevrekidis, Panayotis (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Award), 1062 Kevrekidis, Yannis G. (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 McMeeking, Robert M. (National Academy of Engineering Kirchheim, Bernd (2005 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1063 Elections), 655 Klainerman, Sergiu (National Academy of Sciences Mendelzon, Alberto O. (2005 Royal Society of Canada Elec- Elections), 764 tions), 1063 Klartag, Bo’az (Clay Research Fellow), 654 Merle, Frank (2005 Bôcher Prize), 443 Knutson, Allen (2005 Conant Prize), 454 Mnatsakanian, Mamikon (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), Kogan, Jacob (Fulbright Award), 655 1212 Kohn, Robert V. (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Moehlis, Jeff (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 1214 Moffatt, Keith (2005 LMS Senior Whitehead Prize), 1062 Kollár, János (National Academy of Sciences Elections), Moler, Cleve (2005 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to 764 the Profession), 1212 Komarova, Natasha (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Montgomery, Deane (A Tribute), 348 Krauthgamer, Robert (SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize), 1212 Morrison, David R. (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 Kuo, Hui-Hsiung (Fulbright Award), 655 Mortabit, Abdessamad (Fulbright Award), 655 Kurtz, Thomas G. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mossel, Elchanan (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Elections), 764 Mubayi, Dhruv (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Ladner, Richard (2004 Presidential Mentoring Award), 763 Muscalu, Camil (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Lalonde, François (Named Director of CRM), 70 Nakamura, Takuji (MSJ Takebe Junior Prize), 462 Lander, Eric S. (2004 AAAS Public Understanding of Sci- Nayatani, Shin (MSJ Geometry Prize), 462 ence and Technology Award), 548 Nemirovski, Arkadi (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Langlands, Robert P. (2005 Steele Prize), 439 1214 Laumon, Gérard (2004 Clay Research Award), 252 Ngo, Bao-Chau (2004 Clay Research Award), 252 Lawler, Gregory (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Nishida, Takaaki (MSJ Analysis Prize), 462 Elections), 764 Novikov, Sergei P. (2005 Wolf Prize), 539 Lax, Peter D. (Abel Prize), 632 O’Connell, Neil (2005 Rollo Davidson Prize), 764 Lee, Patrick A. (2005 Dirac Medal), 1211 Ono, Ken (NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholars Award), Lee, Yuan-Pin (2005–2006 AMS Centennial Fellowship), 1062 653 Osher, Stanley J. (National Academy of Sciences Elections), Lemieux, Christiane (Information-Based Complexity Young 764; (SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize), 1212 Researcher Award), 353 Osofsky, Barbara (2005 MAA Certificate of Meritorious Leslie, Robert A. (Fulbright Award), 655 Service), 544 Levin, Simon A. (2005 Kyoto Prize), 1059 Ozawa, Narutaka (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Lewis, Adrian (SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize), 1212 Papikian, Mihran (2005 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathe- Li, Runze (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 matics), 254 Li, Yongqing (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Pardalos, Panos M. (AAAS Fellow), 65 Limic, Vlada (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Parisi, Giorgio (2005 Heineman Prize), 653 Liu, Jianya (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Peeva, Irena (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Liu, Yu-Ru (2005 CMS G. de B. Robinson Prize), 1363 Pixton, Aaron C. (Putnam Prize), 764 Loh, Po-Shen (2004 Morgan Prize), 457 Poincaré, Henri (A Life in the Service of Science), 1036 Lu, Zhiqin (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Pomerance, Carl (AAAS Fellow), 65 Lubotzky, Alexander (American Academy of Arts and Sci- Popa, Mihnea (2005–2006 AMS Centennial Fellowship), ences Elections), 764 653 Luce, R. Duncan (National Medal of Science), 634 Popa, Sorin (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 Ma, Yi (2005 ONR Young Investigators Program), 1213 Price, G. Baley (Happy 100th), 546 Madsen, Ib (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 Qu, Annie (2004 NSF Career Award), 64

1452 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 52, NUMBER 11 2005 Index

Quarteroni, Alfio (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Velazquez, Juan J. L. (Humboldt Foundation Research 1214 Award), 885 Reiten, Idun (Humboldt Foundation Research Award), 885 Vempala, Santosh Srinivas (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 Rojas, J. Maurice (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Vergne, Michèle (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Rothschild, Linda Preiss (American Academy of Arts and 1214 Sciences Elections), 764 Vershynin, Roman (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Saaty, Thomas L. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- Wadia, Spenta R. (TWAS Prize), 353 tions), 655 Walk, Stephen M. (2005 MAA George Pólya Award), 1211 Sarnak, Peter (2005 Cole Prize in Number Theory), 445 Ward, Richard S. (Royal Society of London Elections), 885 Schneider, Joel E. (1943–2004), 65 Weinreich, David (2005–2006 AMS Congressional Fellow), Schramm, Oded (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 768 1214 Werner, Wendelin (2005 Loève Prize), 1211 Scott, Jon (2005 MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service), Wetzel, John (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 544 Whyte, Kevin (2004 NSF Career Award), 64 Seade, José (2005 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize), 764 Wigderson, Avi (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), Selman, Alan L. (Humboldt Foundation Research Award), 1214 885 Wiles, Andrew J. (2005 Shaw Prize), 869 Sethuraman, Jayaram (Fulbright Award), 655 Wilson, Robin J. (2005 MAA George Pólya Award), 1211 Shamir, Adi (National Academy of Sciences Elections), 764 Wonham, Walter M. (National Academy of Engineering Shigeru, Kuroda (MSJ Takebe Junior Prize), 462 Elections), 655 Simon, Barry (American Academy of Arts and Sciences Wright, Margaret H. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Elections), 764 tions), 764 Singer, Isadore (Interview), 225 Wu, Yingi (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Siu, Yum-Tong (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Yakimov, Milen (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 Sloan, Ian (2005 Information-Based Complexity Prize), 763 Yanik, Elizabeth (2004 Presidential Mentoring Award), 763 Sogge, Christopher D. (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 Ye, Yangbo (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Solheid, Ernie (2005 MAA Certificate of Meritorious Ser- Yiming, Long (TWAS Prize), 353 vice), 544 Zela, Dritan (Fulbright Award), 655 Speyer, David (Clay Research Fellow), 654 Zheng, Yu (Fan China Exchange Program), 658 Stanley, Richard P. (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 Mathematics Starr, Jason (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 (A) 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics, Stein, Elias M. (2005 Stefan Bergman Prize), 460 334 Stillwell, John (MAA for Expository Cohomology, Computations, and Commutative Algebra, Writing), 1212 426 Storozhev, Andrei (2005 B. H. Neumann Award), 1364 Experimental Mathematics: Examples, Methods and Im- Strang, Gilbert (2005 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1212 plications, 502 Strickland, Neil (2005 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1063 Flowers of Ice—Beauty, Symmetry, and Complexity: A Stuart, David (2005 Adams Prize), 1062 Sudan, Madhu (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 Review of The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty, 402 Sumners, De Witt L. (AAAS Fellow), 65 Generalized Fourier Transforms, Their Nonlinearization Sunagawa, Hideaki (MSJ Takebe Junior Prize), 462 and the Imaging of the Brain, 1178 Taalman, Laura (MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distin- (The) Golden Ratio (A Book Review), 344 guished Teaching), 1212 Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Takahashi, Ryo (MSJ Takebe Junior Prize), 462 Atomic Physics, 1020 Tamarkin, Dmitry E. (2005 Sloan Fellow), 654 (The) Importance of MathML to Mathematics Communi- Taniuchi, Yasushi (MSJ Takebe Senior Prize), 462 cation, 532 Tanton, James (2005 MAA Beckenbach Book Prize), 544 Interview with Heisuke Hironaka, 1010 Tao, Terence (2005 Conant Prize), 454; (Plenary Speaker Interview with Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer (Martin for ICM 2006, Madrid), 1214 Raussen, Christian Skau), 225 Thurston, William P. (2005 Book Prize), 449 Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality, 1320 Topping, Peter (2005 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1063 Manifolds with Density, 853 Toshiyasu, Arai (MSJ Autumn Prize), 462 (The) Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (Kristine K. Fowler), Trefethen, Lloyd N. (Royal Society of London Elections), 885 1205 Vakil, Ravi (2005 André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize), 654 Mathematics of the Heavens, 417 Vardi, Moshe Y. (Guggenheim Fellowship), 655 (The) Mathematics Survey Project (Jim Pitman and David Varga, Richard S. (2005 Hans Schneider Award), 884 Aldous), 1357 Vázquez, Juan Luis (Plenary Speaker for ICM 2006, Madrid), MathSciNet Matters (Norman Richert), 62, 459, 650, 1061 1214 Nonholonomic Dynamics, 324

DECEMBER 2005 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1453 2005 Index

On the AMS Notices Publication of Krieger’s Translation of Mainz, Germany (announcement), 382 Weil’s 1940 Letter, 612 Newark, DE (announcement), 298 (The) p-adic Icosahedron, 720 San Antonio, TX (announcement and timetable), 1121, Patterns of Research in Mathematics, 35 1154 Picturing the Horseshoe Map (Bill Casselman), 518 Santa Barbara, CA (announcement), 302 Quiver Representations, 200 Taichung, Taiwan (announcement), 699 …(a) small idea of what it is I do all day…Introductions to Mathematics (A Book Review), 221 Meetings and Conferences Topological Fluid Dynamics, 9 101, 297, 379, 485, 583, 695, 807, 985, 1117, 1299, 1435 (A) Tribute to (Ronald Fintushel), 348 General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences of Up and Down the Tiles (David Austin), 600 the AMS, 100 Walter Feit (1930–2004), 728 Meetings and Conferences Table of Contents, 191, 311, 392, WHAT IS a Brane?, 214 496, 592, 712, 824, 999, 1167, 1311, 0000 WHAT IS a Compacton?, 738 WHAT IS a Dimer?, 342 2005 Meetings WHAT IS a Gröbner Basis?, 1202 Atlanta, GA, 101 WHAT IS a Horseshoe?, 516 Bowling Green, KY, 103, 297, 379, 485 WHAT IS a Lefschetz Pencil?, 848 Newark, DE, 105, 298, 380, 486 WHAT IS an Open Book?, 42 Lubbock, TX, 106, 300, 381, 487 WHAT IS Property (τ)?, 626 Santa Barbara, CA, 107, 302, 381, 487, 583 WHAT IS a Pseudoholomorphic Curve?, 1026 Mainz, Germany, 108, 304, 382, 488, 584, 695 WHAT IS a Random Matrix?, 1348 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 109, 305, 385, 490, 585, 696, What Is the Role of Algebra in Applied Mathematics?, 1193 807, 985, 1117 What Mathematics Is Required to Make Use of Genomic Johnson City, TN, 109, 306, 386, 490, 586, 697, 809, 986, Data?, 829 1118, 1299 Whither Mathematics? (Brian Davies), 1350 Lincoln, NE, 110, 306, 386, 491, 586, 698, 812, 986, 1118, 1299 Mathematics Calendar Eugene, OR, 110, 307, 386, 491, 587, 699, 814, 987, 1119, 79, 288, 365, 472, 565, 665, 787, 938, 1086, 1262, 1378 1300, 1435 Taichung, Taiwan, 110, 307, 387, 492, 587, 699, 815, 990, Mathematics History 1120, 1301, 1435 (A) 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics, 334 2006 Meetings Henri Poincaré. A Life in the Service of Science (Jean San Antonio, TX, 110, 307, 387, 492, 588, 701, 816, 991, Mawhin), 1036 1121, 1302, 1436 (The) IAS School of Mathematics at 75, 859 Miami, FL, 308, 387, 492, 588, 707, 818, 993, 1147, 1302, Interview with Arild Stubhaug (Ulf Persson), 1046 1437 Interview with Heisuke Hironaka, 1010 Notre Dame, IN, 388, 492, 588, 707, 818, 993, 1148, 1303, Interview with Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer (Martin 1438 Raussen, Christian Skau), 225 Durham, NH, 111, 308, 388, 492, 588, 707, 818, 994, 1149, Mathematicians under the Nazis (A Book Review), 435 1304, 1439 Mathematics, Biology, and Physics: Interactions and San Francisco, CA, 111, 308, 388, 493, 588, 708, 819, 994, Interdependence, 832 1149, 1304, 1439 On the AMS Notices Publication of Krieger’s Translation of Salt Lake City, UT, 589, 708, 819, 995, 1150, 1305, 1440 Weil’s 1940 Letter, 612 Cincinnati, OH, 493, 589, 709, 819, 995, 1150, 1305, 1440 : A Mathematical Autobiography and A3 Storrs, CT, 589, 709, 820, 995, 1150, 1305, 1441 & His Algebra: How a Boy from Chicago’s West Side Fayetteville, AR, 111, 308, 388, 493, 589, 709, 820, 996, Became a Force in American Mathematics—A Book 1151, 1306, 1441 Review, 1340 Walter Feit (1930–2004), 728 2007 Meetings New Orleans, LA, 111, 308, 388, 493, 589, 709, 820, 996, Meeting Announcements, Presenters of Papers, 1151, 1306, 1441 and Programs Davidson, NC, 709, 821, 996, 1151, 1306, 1442 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (announcement), 807 Oxford, OH, 112, 309, 389, 494, 590, 710, 821, 996, 1152, Atlanta, GA (presenters and program), 114 1306, 1442 Bowling Green, KY (announcement), 103 Tucson, AZ, 821, 997, 1152, 1307, 1442 Eugene, OR (announcement), 987 Johnson City, TN (announcement), 809 2008 Meetings Lincoln, NE (announcement), 812 San Diego, CA, 112, 309, 389, 494, 590, 710, 821, 997, 1152, Lubbock, TX (announcement), 300 1307, 1442

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Bloomington, IN, 821, 997, 1152, 1307, 1443 Call for Nominations for 2005 Frank and Brennie Morgan Vancouver, Canada, 1307, 1443 AMS-MAA-SIAM Prize for Outstanding Research in Math- Shanghai, PRC, 1152, 1307, 1443 ematics by an Undergraduate Student, 469 Call for Nominations for Distinguished Public Service 2009 Meetings Award, 468 Washington, DC, 112, 309, 389, 494, 590, 710, 822, 997, Call for Nominations for D. R. Fulkerson Prize, 1375 1153, 1308, 1443 Call for Nominations for Frank Nelson Cole Prizes, 468 Call for Nominations for George David Birkhoff Prize, 468 2010 Meetings Call for Nominations for the ICTP/IMU Ramanujan Prize, 656 San Francisco, CA, 112, 309, 389, 494, 590, 710, 822, 997, Call for Nominations for Information-Based Complexity 1153, 1308, 1444 Prize, 356 Call for Nominations for Levi L. Conant Prize, 468 2011 Meetings Call for Nominations for Lucien Godeaux Prize, 355 New Orleans, LA, 113, 310, 390, 495, 591, 711, 822, 998, Call for Nominations for Sloan Fellowships, 656 1153, 1308, 1444 Call for Nominations for Third World Academy of Sci- ences Prizes, 1218 2012 Meetings Call for Nominations for Waterman Award, 1218 Boston, MA, 1308, 1444 Call for Nominations: Monroe H. Martin Prize, 67 Call for Proposals for 2006 NSF-CBMS Regional Confer- 2013 Meetings ences, 255 San Diego, CA, 1444 Call for Proposals for the 2007 von Neumann Symposium, 984 Memorial Articles Call for Submissions for Sunyer i Balaguer Prize, 767 In Memoriam: S.-S.Chern (Allyn Jackson), 623 Clay Mathematics Institute 2005 Summer School, 256 Joel E. Schneider (1943–2004), 65 Clay Research Fellow Nominations, 1065 (A) Tribute to Deane Montgomery (Ronald Fintushel), 348 Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences, 354 Walter Feit (1930–2004) (Leonard Scott, Ronald Solomon, Deadlines and Target Dates at the DMS, 66 Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 70 John Thompson, John Walter, Efim Zelmanov), 728 Distinguished International Postdoctoral Research Fel- New Publications Offered by the AMS lowships, 887 DMS Employment Opportunities, 357 83, 292, 373, 479, 571, 676, 790, 958, 1089, 1265, 1385 DMS Focus on Stochastic Systems, 1217 Officers of the Society DMS Special Meetings Competition, 888 EDGE Summer Program, 1363 564, 1073 Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in the Opinion Twenty-First Century, 550, 1064 European Mathematical Society Announces New Article Letter from the Editor, 7, 321, 1173 Competitions, 355 Letters to the Editor, 8, 198, 322, 400, 598,718, 830, 1006, Everett Pitcher Lectures, 357 1174, 1318 ICIAM Establishes Su Buchin Prize, 357 Opinion, 197, 399, 501, 597, 717, 829, 1005, 1317 ICM 2006 Travel Grants, 1216 Opportunities International Mathematics Competition for University Stu- dents, 354 AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants, Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award, 463 1217 Mathematics Awareness Month 2005, 258 ADVANCE: New NSF Program to Increase Women’s Par- National Academies Graduate Fellowship Program, 256 ticipation, 656 National Academies Research Associateship Programs, 255 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, News from AIM, 1219 886, 1216 News from the Clay Mathematics Institute, 657 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowships, 1064 News from the CRM Montreal, 1364 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 463 News from The Fields Institute, 551, 1218 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1064 News from the IMA, 68, 1065 AMS Scholarships for Math in Moscow, 766 News from the Institut Mittag-Leffler, 1219 AP Calculus Readers Sought, 463 News from MSRI, 356 AWM Collaborative Research Grants for Women, 67 News from Oberwolfach, 69, 551 AWM Essay Contest, 1218 News from SAMSI, 257 AWM Travel Grants for Women, 888 Newton Fellowship Program, 1364 Call for the 2007 Summer Research Conferences Propos- Nominations Sought for 2005 IBC Young Researcher Award, als, 1115 767

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NRC-Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, 1363 2005 Adams Prize (David Stuart, Michail Dafermos), 1062 NRC-Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities, 67 2005 AIM Five-Year Fellowship (Joel Kamnitzer, runners- NSA Grant and Sabbatical Programs, 886 up: Spyros Alexakis, Beth Samuels, Lior Silberman, NSF CAREER Program Guidelines Available, 656 Lauren Williams), 549 NSF-CBMS Regional Conferences, 2005, 256 2005 André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize (), NSF Computing Equipment and Instrumentation Programs, 654 356 2005 AWM Hay Award (Susanna S. Epp), 545 NSF Focused Research Groups, 766 2005 AWM Schafer Prize (Melody Chan, runners-up: NSF Graduate Fellowships, 887 Margaret I. Doig, Elena Fuchs, Annalies Vuong), 545 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, 1216 2005 B. H. Neumann Award (Russell Coad, George Harvey, NSF Graduate Teaching Fellowships in K–12 Education, Andrei Storozhev), 1362 550 2005 Bôcher Prize (Frank Merle), 443 NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Train- 2005 Book Prize (William P. Thurston), 449 ing, 255 2005 CMS Adrien Pouliot Prize (Katherine Heinrich), 1363 NSF International Research Fellow Awards, 887 2005 CMS G. de B. Robinson Prize (Yu-Ru Liu), 1363 NSF Launches Math Website, 657 2005 Cole Prize in Number Theory (Peter Sarnak), 445 NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- 2005 Conant Prize (Allen Knutson, Terence Tao), 454 ships, 766 2005 CRM-Fields Prize (David Boyd), 548 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, 550 2005 Dirac Medals (Samuel F. Edwards, Patrick A. Lee), 1211 NSF Program in Mathematical, Social, and Behavioral Sci- 2005 Emil Artin Junior Prize in Mathematics (Mihran Pa- ences, 463 pikian), 254 ONR Young Investigator Program, 67 2005 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prizes (Antonio Ambrosetti, Project NExT: New Experiences in Teaching, 354 Andrea Malchiodi, José Seade), 764 Ramanujan Prize Established, 70 2005 Hans Schneider Prize (Richard S. Varga), 884 Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 888 2005 Heineman Prize (Giorgio Parisi), 653 Research Opportunities for U.S. Graduate Students in Asia 2005 Information-Based Complexity Prize (Ian Sloan), 763 and Australia, 1217 2005 International Mathematical Olympiad, 1213 Return of the CBMS Survey, 258 2005 JPBM Communications Award (Barry Cipra), 541 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, 551 2005 Kenneth O. May Prize (Henk Bos), 1363 Special Meetings in the Mathematical Sciences, 657 2005 Kyoto Prize (Simon A. Levin), 1059 Summer Program for Women Undergraduates, 355 2005 L. E. J. Brouwer Medal (Lucien Birgé), 654 Three NSF Institutes Pass Five-Year Renewal, 1365 2005 Loève Prize (Wendelin Werner), 1211 Travel Grants for ICM 2006, Madrid, 887 2005 London Mathematical Society Prizes (Pólya Prize— University-Industry Cooperative Research Programs in the Michael Berry; Senior Whitehead Prize—Keith Moffatt; Mathematical Sciences (UICRP), 66 Berwick Prize—Iain Gordon; Whitehead Prizes—Ben Green, Bernd Kirchheim, Neil Strickland, Peter Top- Prizes and Awards ping), 1063 2004 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award (Rhonda J. Hughes), 548 2005 MAA Beckenbach Book Prize (James Tanton), 544 2004 AAAS Public Understanding of Science and Tech- 2005 MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service (Charles Cable, nology Award (Eric S. Lander), 548 Jon Scott, Barbara Osofsky, Roy Deal Jr., Ernie Solheid), 2004 AWM Essay Contest Winners (Samantha Van Anh 544 Tran, Stefanie Coforio, Mallory Brown), 462 2005 MAA Gung and Hu Award (Gerald L. Alexanderson), 2004 Blackwell-Tapia Prize (Rodrigo Bañuelos), 252 543 2004 Clay Research Awards (Ben Green, Gérard Laumon, 2005 MAA Haimo Award (Gerald L. Alexanderson, Aparna Bao-Chau Ngo), 252 Higgins, Deborah Hughes Hallett), 543 2004 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship 2005 Rolf Schock Prizes (Jaakko Hintikka, Luis A. (Manjul Bhargava, Alexandru D. Ionescu), 549 Caffarelli), 762 2004 Georg Cantor Medal (Friedrich Hirzebruch), 253 2005 Rollo Davidson Prize (Olle Haggstrom, Neil 2004 John von Neumann Theory Prize (J. Michael Harri- O’Connell), 764 son), 461 2005 Salem Prize (Ben Green), 884 2004 Morgan Prize (Reid W. Barton, Po-Shen Loh), 457 2005 Satter Prize (Svetlana Jitomirskaya), 447 2004 NRC-Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (Scott 2005 Shaw Prize (Andrew J. Wiles), 869 Izu), 253 2005 Sierpinski Prize (Benoit Mandelbrot), 1213 2004 NSF CAREER Awards (Subhashis Ghosal, Kevin Whyte, 2005 Sloan Research Fellowships (Camil Muscalu, Jonathan Erik Guentner, Zhiqin Lu, Harm Derksen, Panayotis Mattingly, Denis Auroux, Jason Starr, Fengbo Hang, Kevrekidis, Annie Qu, Runze Li, Irena Peeva, Feifang Hu, Dmitry E. Tamarkin, Vlada Limic, Elchanan Mossel, J. Maurice Rojas), 64 Roman Vershynin, Natasha Komarova, Narutaka Ozawa, 2004 PECASE Awards (Frank L. H. Brown), 1062 Jeff Moehlis, Milen Yakimov, Jesper Grodal, Dhruv 2004 Turing Award (Vinton G. Cerf, Robert E. Kahn), 653 Mubayi, Jinho Baik, Tobias Ekholm, Gavril Farkas, Tamas 2005 Abel Prize (Peter D. Lax), 632 Hausel, Jordan Ellenberg), 654

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2005 Steele Prizes (Branko Grünbaum, Robert P. Lang- Strang, Steven Finch, John Wetzel, Judith Grabiner), lands, Israel M. Gelfand), 439 1211 2005 Stefan Bergman Prize (Elias M. Stein), 460 MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize (Maureen Carroll, Steven 2005 Whiteman Prize (Harold Edwards), 451 Dougherty), 1212 2005 Wolf Prize (Gregory A. Margulis, Sergei P. Novikov), MAA Trevor Evans Award (Robert L. Devaney), 1211 539 Math in Moscow Scholarships (Christopher E. Biermann, 2005–2006 AMS Centennial Fellowships (Yuan-Pin Lee, Brendan Matthew Creutz, Victor Kostyuk, Joel Louwsma, Mihnea Popa), 653 Adrienne Rau), 254; (Thomas Franklin Church, Henry F. 2005–2006 AMS Congressional Fellow (David Weinreich), Danaher, Noah Jacob Giansiracusa, Igor Konfisakhar, 768 Rodrigo Trevino), 768 AAAS Fellows (Richard A. DeMillo, John H. Ewing, NAS Award for Initiatives in Research (Ronald Fedkiw), 548 James E. Gentle, Panos M. Pardalos, , National Academy of Engineering Elections (Ivo M. Babuska, De Witt L. Sumners), 65 Marsha J. Berger, Dimitris J. Bertsimas, A. Robert Calder- Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) bank, Edmund M. Clarke, Dominic M. Di Toro, Shafrira Prizes (Long Yiming, Spenta R. Wadia), 353 Goldwasser, John S. Hunter, Robert M. McMeeking, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elections Thomas L. Saaty, William M. Kahan, Walter M. Won- (M. Salah Baouendi, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Eric M. ham), 655 Friedlander, Jerome H. Friedman, Thomas G. Kurtz, National Academy of Sciences Elections (Malcolm H. Gregory Lawler, Linda Preiss Rothschild, Barry Simon, Chisholm, Iain M. Johnstone, Sergiu Klainerman, János Alexander Lubotzky), 764 Kollár, Stanley Osher, Margaret H. Wright, Adi Shamir), AMS Menger Awards at the 2005 ISEF, 884 764 Celsius Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Sciences National High School Calculus Award (Sam Beck), 1364 (Vladimir Mazya), 549 National Medal of Science (Carl R. de Boor, R. Duncan Clay Research Fellows (Bo’az Klartag, David Speyer, Ben Luce), 634 Green), 654 NDSEG Fellowships (AFOSR: Jeffrey Aristoff, Ethan Atkins, DMV Media and Journalism Prizes (Christoph Pöppe, Damian Burch, Kenneth Kamrin, Michael Lesnick; ARO: Hubertus Breuer), 254 Reid Barton, Margaret Doig, David Freeman, Eric Malm, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize (Ana Caraiani), 765 Brian Wyman; ONR: Wei Ho, Harris Nover, Melanie Wood), Fan China Exchange Program Awardees (Yongqing Li, Yum- 1364 Tong Siu, Jianya Liu, Yangbo Ye, Bruce Driver, Yuxin NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholars Award (William Dong, Yu Zheng, David Griffeath, Yingi Wu), 658 McCallum, Ken Ono), 1062 Fulbright Awards (Cristina M. Ballantine, Dipa Choudhury, NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded, 1213 Eric I. Gottlieb, Jacob Kogan, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Robert A. ONR Young Investigator Award (Yi Ma), 1213 Leslie, Abdessamad Mortabit, Jayaram Sethuraman, Operator Algebra Prize (Masaki Izumi), 253 Dritan Zela), 655 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation Awards (Jason Guggenheim Fellowships (Ian Agol, Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Brinker, Jennifer Carmichael, Stephanie Deacon, David David R. Morrison, Christopher D. Sogge, Madhu Sudan, Gohlke, Angela Hicks, David Martin, Maria Salcedo, Tina Moshe Y. Vardi, Santosh Srinivas Vempala), 655 Smith) (Chantel Blackburn—Best Research Presenta- Humboldt Foundation Research Awards (Susanne C. tion), 1364 Brenner, Richard E. Ewing, Idun Reiten, Alan L. Selman, Presidential Mentoring Awards (Lenore Blum, Richard Lad- Juan J. L. Velazquez), 885 ner, Elizabeth Yanik), 763 Information-Based Complexity Young Researcher Award Prizes of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Autumn (Christiane Lemieux, Josef Dick), 353 Prize—Arai Toshiyasu; Geometry Prize—Seiichi Kamada, Intel Science Talent Search Scholarships (Robert T. Shin Nayatani; Analysis Prize—Masafumi Akahira, Cordwell, Po-Ling Loh), 655 Katsunori Iwasaki, Takaaki Nishida; Takebe Senior Leonard M. and Eleanor R. Blumenthal Award (Manjul Prize—Masashi Ishida, Yasushi Taniuchi, Tomoyuki Bhargava), 461 Arakawa; Takebe Junior Prize—Kuroda Shigeru, MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award (Roger B. Eggleton, Hidekazu Furusho, Hideaki Sunagawa, Tetsuya Hosaka, William P. Galvin), 1211 Ryo Takahashi, Takuji Nakamura), 462 MAA Chauvenet Prize for Expository Writing (John Still- Professor of the Year Award (Robert L. Devaney, well), 1212 Stephen J. Greenfield), 353 MAA George Pólya Award (Brian Hopkins, Robin J. Wilson, Putnam Prizes (Reid W. Barton, Vladimir V. Barzov, Ana Stephen M. Walk), 1211 Caraiani, Daniel M. Kane, Aaron C. Pixton), 764 MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching Royal Society of Canada Elections (David M. R. Jackson, (Matthew DeLong, Sarah Greenwald, Laura Taalman), Alberto O. Mendelzon), 1063 1212 Royal Society of London Elections (Martin T. Barlow, MAA Lester R. Ford Award (Tom Apostol, Mamikon David W. Masser, Lloyd N. Trefethen, Richard S. Ward, Mnatsakanian, Henry Cohn, Alan Edelman, Gilbert Raoul Bott), 885

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SIAM Prizes (Germund Dahlquist Prize—Desmond J. Presidential Views: Interview with James Arthur (Allyn Higham; Ralph E. Kleinman Prize—Stanley J. Osher; Jackson), 350 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize—Christopher I. Byrnes; Rotating at the National Science Foundation (John B. James H. Wilkinson Prize—Emmanuel J. Candes; Conway), 646 Distinguished Service to the Profession—Cleve Moler; …(a) small idea of what it is I do all day…Introductions to John von Neumann Lectureship—Jerrold E. Marsden; Mathematics—Book Review (Günter M. Ziegler), 221 I. E. Block Community Lecture—Christopher R. Johnson; Statistics on Women Mathematicians Compiled by the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture—Ingrid AMS, 1084 Daubechies; Outstanding Paper Prizes—Adrian Lewis, Whither Mathematics?, 1350 Karen Braman, Ralph Byers, Roy Mathias, Uriel Feige, Robert Krauthgamer; SIAM/ACM Prize—Achi Brandt), Reference and Book List 1212 75, 260, 360, 464, 554, 660, 769, 891, 1068, 1222, 1369 Siemens Westinghouse Competition (Po-Ling Loh), 353 Trjitzinsky Memorial Awards Presented (Laura Wolfgram, Reviews 3 Prince Chidyagwai, Ekaterina Jager, Blerta Shtylla, A & His Algebra: How a Boy from Chicago’s West Side Antonio Veloz, Daniel M. Pomerleano, Kathryn Carr, Became a Force in American Mathematics (Reviewed by Cass Bath, Olivia Nichol Gistand), 358 Lance W. Small), 1340 Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and The Profession Just About Everything Else (Reviewed by Rick Durrett), 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Re- 743 port), 236 Flowers of Ice—Beauty, Symmetry, and Complexity: The 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty (Reviewed by John A. Report), 747 Adam), 402 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third (The) Golden Ratio (Reviewed by George Markowsky), 344 Report), 871 János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space (Reviewed by Robert Osserman), 1030 AMS President’s Address at Abel Celebration (James Kepler’s Conjecture and Hales’s Proof (Reviewed by Frank Arthur), 745 Morgan), 44 (The) Budget Vise Tightens: NSF Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Knots for Everyone: The Knot Book (Reviewed by Alexey Request (Allyn Jackson), 637 Sossinsky), 866 Comments on Female Math Ability Spark Reaction (Allyn Mathematicians under the Nazis (Reviewed by Jochen Jackson), 552 Brüning), 435 (A) Different Type of Institute: The American Institute of Mathematics by Experiment and Experimentation in Math- Mathematics, 1330 ematics (Reviewed by Jeffrey Shallit), 863 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2003–2004, 264 Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2003–2004, Supplementary World (Reviewed by Brian D. Sleeman), 628 List, 759 (The) Oxford Murders (Reviewed by Robin Wilson), 1201 From Samos to SAMSI: The Mathematical Science Insti- (The) Panel (Reviewed by Andy Magid), 635 tutes (William Rundell), 1052 Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography Gambling with U.S. Science (Charles P. Casey, Helen R. (Reviewed by Lance W. Small), 1340 Quinn, Robert D. Wells, David Eisenbud), 197 Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Gender and Mathematics—Again (Judith Roitman, Carol Know? (Reviewed by Martin Gardner), 1344 Wood), 501 …(a) small idea of what it is I do all day…Introductions to (The) IAS School of Mathematics at 75 (Susan Friedlander, Mathematics (Reviewed by Günter M. Ziegler), 221 Mark Goresky), 859 Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Reviewed by (The) IMU and You (John Ball), 1208 Jody Trout), 740 Mathematical Sciences in the FY 2006 Budget (Samuel M. (The) Works of Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, Rankin III), 642 Volume 1: The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylin- Mathematicians Are from Mars, Math Educators Are from der (Reviewed by Alexander Jones), 520 Venus: The Story of a Successful Collaboration (Alan Sultan, Alice F. Artzt), 48 Stipends for Study and Travel, 900 Mathematics in the Near East: Some Personal Observa- tions (David Mumford), 526 Surveys Mathematics in Public (Opinion), (Richard Schaar), 717 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First (The) Mathematics Survey Project (Jim Pitman, David Report), 236 Aldous), 1357 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Patterns of Research in Mathematics (Jerrold W. Grossman), Report), 747 35 2004 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Third Presidential Reflections: Interview with David Eisenbud Report), 871 (Allyn Jackson), 216 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2003–2004, 264

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Table of Contents 3, 195, 315, 395, 499, 595, 715, 827, 1003, 1171, 1315

Visiting Mathematicians

WHAT IS… WHAT IS a Brane? (Gregory W. Moore), 214 WHAT IS a Compacton? (Philip Rosenau), 738 WHAT IS a Dimer? (Richard Kenyon, Andrei Okounkov), 342 WHAT IS a Gröbner Basis? (), 1199 WHAT IS a Horseshoe? (Michael Shub), 516 WHAT IS a Lefschetz Pencil? (Robert E. Gompf), 848 WHAT IS an Open Book? (Emmanuel Giroux), 42 WHAT IS Property (τ)? (Alex Lubotzky), 626 WHAT IS a Pseudoholomorphic Curve? (Simon K. Donald- son), 1026 WHAT IS a Random Matrix? (Persi Diaconis), 1348

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