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The 2009 Noticesindex The 2009 Notices Index January issue: 1–200 May issue: 553–680 October issue: 1065–1224 February issue: 201–336 June/July issue: 681–792 November issue: 1225–1400 March issue: 337–440 August issue: 793–904 December issue: 1401–1520 April issue: 441–552 September issue: 905–1064 2009 Steele Prizes, 488 Index Section Page Number 2009 Whiteman Prize, 498 2009–2010 AMS Centennial Fellowship Awarded, 738 The AMS 1503 (A) Photographic Look at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Announcements 1504 Washington, DC, 2009, 480 Articles 1504 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Authors 1505 971, 1305 Deaths of Members of the Society 1507 American Mathematical Society—Contributions, 645 Grants, Fellowships, Opportunities 1507 AMS Announces Congressional Fellow, 746 Letters to the Editor 1509 AMS Announces Mass Media Fellowship Award, 746 Meetings Information 1509 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 1305 New Publications Offered by the AMS 1509 AMS Current Events Bulletin, 63 Obituaries 1510 AMS Department Chairs Workshop, 743 Opinion 1510 AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics, 2009, 449 Prizes and Awards 1510 AMS Email Support for Frequently Asked Questions, 274 Prizewinners 1512 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1122 Reference and Book List 1516 AMS Graduate Student Blog, 639 Reviews 1516 AMS Holds Workshop for Department Chairs, 747 Surveys 1516 AMS Hosts Congressional Briefing: Can Mathematics Cure Tables of Contents 1516 Leukemia?, 64 AMS Lectures for Cambodian Master’s Degree Program, 851 AMS Menger Awards at the 2009 ISEF, 917 About the Cover AMS Officers and Committee Members, 1133 88, 239, 354, 487, 613, 710, 808, 915, 1132, 1301, 1455 AMS Scholarships for “Math in Moscow”, 971 AMS Short Course in San Francisco, CA, 1171 The AMS AMS Sponsors Exhibit on Mathematical Modeling, 747 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First AMS Sponsors NExT Fellows, 1310 Report), 257 AMS Testifies Before House Appropriations Subcommit- 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First tee, 746 Report, Part II), 388 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowship, 1122 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships, 59 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the Applications and Nominations Sought for AMS Associate United States (Second Report), 828 Treasurer, 303 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the Biographies of Candidates, 2009, 990 United States (Third Report), 1289 Bylaws of the American Mathematical Society, 1320 2008 Election Results, 304 Call for Applications or Nominations for Treasurer of the 2009 American Mathematical Society Election (Special AMS, 860 Section), 983 Call for Nominations for AMS Award for Mathematics 2009 AMS Election—Nominations by Petition, 305 Programs That Make a Difference, 408 2009 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize, 492 Call for Organizers 2010 MRC Conferences, 87 2009 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in Call for Proposals for the 2011 von Neumann Symposium, a Mathematics Department, 632 878 2009 Cole Prize in Algebra, 494 Call for Suggestions for 2010 AMS Elections, 1003 2009 Conant Prize, 500 Discussion on “The Mathematics behind Tom Stoppard’s 2009 Morgan Prize, 502 Arcadia”, 851 2009 Satter Prize, 496 Epsilon Awards for 2009, 640 DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1503 2009 Index Epsilon Scholarships Awarded for 2009, 1462 (The) Dixmier-Douady Invariant for Dummies (Claude Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture, 63, 747 Schochet), 809 Fairweather Named MR Executive Editor, 508 Guido Castelnuovo and Francesco Severi: Two Personali- Fan China Exchange Program Names Awardees, 850 ties, Two Letters (Donald Babbitt and Judith Goodstein), From the AMS Public Awareness Office, 63, 274, 508, 640, 800 748, 850, 975, 1310, 1462 Invariant Theory of Tensor Product Decompositions of General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences U (N ) and Generalized Casimir Operators (William H. of the AMS, 89 Klink and Tuong Ton-That), 931 Math in Moscow Scholarships Awarded, 850 Is the Sky Still Falling? (David M. Bressoud), 20 Mathematics Awareness Month, April 2009: “Mathematics Legal Commentary: Accommodations of Learning Disabili- and Climate”, 401 ties in Mathematics Courses (Kathleen Ambruso Acker, Mathematics Research Communities Program Kicks Off, 224 Mary W. Gray, and Behzad Jalali), 1072 Nebraska Department Wins Exemplary Program Award, 622 Mathematical Models in Science and Engineering (Alfio Nominations by Petition for 2009 AMS Election, 1004 Quarteroni), 10 Officers of the Society 2008 and 2009 Updates, 651 Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Presidential Views: Interview with George Andrews, 383 Confusion and Great Potential (Walter Willinger, David Presidential Views: Interview with James Glimm, 247 Alderson, and John C. Doyle), 586 Reciprocity Agreements, 1346 On the Concept of Genus in Topology and Complex Analy- Report of the AMS First-Year Task Force (James Lewis, sis (Friedrich E. P. Hirzebruch and Matthias Kreck), 713 Alan Tucker), 754 (A) Pencil-and-Paper Algorithm for Solving Sudoku Puzzles Report of the Executive Director, State of the AMS, 2009, (J. F. Crook), 460 1129 (The) Quest for Universal Spaces in Dimension Theory (Stephen Leon Lipscomb), 1418 Report of the Treasurer (2008), 1006 Remembering Atle Selberg, 1917–2007 (Dennis Hejhal, Statistics on Women Mathematicians Compiled by the Peter Sarnak, John Friedlander, Dorian Goldfeld, Samuel AMS, 1144 J. Patterson, Roger Heath-Brown, K. M. Tsang, Wenzhi “Stipends for Study and Travel” to Appear Only on Web, 851 Luo, Brian Conrey, Amit Ghosh, Lennart Carleson, Paul Voting Information for 2009 AMS Election, 982 Malliavin, Nils A. Baas), 692 (see also “Corrections”, Announcements August 2009, p. 852) Remembering John Stallings (Danny Calegari, Benson Everett Pitcher Lectures, 400 Farb, Peter Shalen, Hyam Rubinstein, Mahan Mj, Anan- Invited Speakers for ICM 2010, Hyderabad, 1459 daswarup Gadde, Koji Fujiwara, Stephen Miller, Barry Kichoon Yang Named Next NCTM Executive Director, 745 Mazur), 1410 Mathematics Film Receives Prize, 745 (The) Strong Free Will Theorem (John H. Conway and Simon Mathematics Subject Classification 2010, 848 Kochen), 226 Morgan Appointed Director of Simons Center at Stony (The) TEX Family in 2009 (Jim Hefferon and Karl Berry), 348 Brook, 1309 Time-frequency Analysis of Musical Rhythm (Xiaowen NSF Math Institutes Create New Jobs, 848 Cheng, Jarod V. Hart, and James S. Walker), 356 Program Director Positions at NSF, 400 Transitioning to Careers in Higher Education (Reflections Articles from Recent Ph.D.s in Mathematics Education) (Robert Reys, Dana Cox, Shannon Dingman, and Jill Newton), 1098 — Features (A) Trio of Institutes (Allyn Jackson), 1426 Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008) (Ethan D. Bolker, John We Do Not Choose Mathematics as Our Profession, It Burroughs, David Lieberman, Jim Reeds, Richard Pal- Chooses Us: Interview with Yuri Manin (Mikhail Gel- ais, John Wermer, Joel Spencer, Paul R. Chernoff, Lida fand), 1268 Barrett, Deborah Hughes Hallett, T. Christine Stevens, — Communications Jeff Tecosky-Feldman, Thomas Tucker, Leslie Dunton- 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Downer, Jean Berko Gleason), 1236 Report), (Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen Birds and Frogs (Freeman Dyson), 212 Rose), 257 Bôcher, Osgood, and the Ascendance of American Math- 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First ematics at Harvard (Steve Batterson), 916 Report, Part II), (Polly Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics Colleen Rose), 388 (Bryan Birch, Simon Donaldson, Gil Kalai, Richard Ken- 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the yon, Angus Macintyre), 1276 United States (Second Report) (and Doctoral Degrees Climate Change and the Mathematics of Transport in Sea Conferred 2007–2008, Supplementary List), (Polly Ice (Kenneth M. Golden), 562 Phipps, James W. Maxwell, and Colleen Rose), 828 Communities in Networks (Mason A. Porter, Jukka-Pekka 2009 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize, 492 Onnela, and Peter J. Mucha), 1082 2009 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in Connected Sets and the AMS, 1901–1921 (David E. Zita- a Mathematics Department, 632 relli), 450 2009 Cole Prize in Algebra, 494 1504 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11 2009 Index 2009 Conant Prize, 500 WHAT IS…a Rota-Baxter Algebra? (Li Guo), 1436 2009 JPBM Communications Award, 630 WHAT IS…the Schwarzian Derivative? (Valentin Ovsienko 2009 Morgan Prize, 502 and Sergei Tabachnikov), 34 2009 Satter Prize, 496 WHAT IS…a Skein Module? (W. B. Raymond Lickorish), 240 2009 Steele Prizes, 488 WHAT IS…Stanley Depth? (M. R. Pournaki, S. A. Seyed 2009 Whiteman Prize, 498 Fakhari, M. Tousi, and S. Yassemi), 1106 About the Cover: Representations of U (n ), 915 What Is New in LATEX? I. Breaking Free (G. Grätzer), 52 AIM Workshops: The Moderated Discussion Session (David What Is New in LATEX? II. TEX Implementations, Evolution W. Farmer and Sally Koutsoliotas), 1447 or Revolution? (G. Grätzer), 627 Ask Professor Nescio, 250, 732, 958 What Is New in LATEX III. Formatting References (G. AWM Awards Given in Washington, DC, 636 Grätzer), 954 (A) Celebration of Women in Mathematics at MIT, (Margaret Why Publish Mathematics? (Klaus Peters), 819 A. M. Murray), 42 Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre (Peter Authors Duren), 1440 Acker, Kathleen Ambruso, 1072 (A) Clicker Approach to Teaching Calculus (Martina Bode, Ahmed, E., 343 Denise Drane, Yifat Ben-David Kolikant, and Mary Alderson, David, 586 Schuller), 253 Artmann, Benno, 1105 Donald McClure Named AMS Executive Director (Allyn
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