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 Audin, Michèle, 614 Jackson), 386 Austin, David, 237 Donaldson and Taubes Receive 2009 Shaw Prize, 952 Babbitt, Donald, 800 Encounters with Mischa Cotlar (John Horváth), 616 Barrett, Lida, 1236 Gromov Receives 2009 Abel Prize, 730 Baas, Nils A., 692 Hans Grauert: Mathematiker Pur (Alan Huckleberry), 38 Batterson, Steve, 916 Homage to Henri Cartan (1904–2008) (Michèle Audin), 614 Berry, Karl, 348 Interview with John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits (Martin Birch, Bryan, 1276 Raussen and Christian Skau), 471 Biss, Daniel, 207 John Ewing Retires from the AMS (Allyn Jackson), 48 Blank, Brian E., 602 Just Visiting (Joshua D. Laison), 1451 Bode, Martina, 253 MAA Prizes Presented in Washington, DC, 633 Bolker, Ethan D., 1236 Mathematical Sciences in the FY 2010 Budget (Samuel M. Borwein, Jonathan, 49 Rankin III), 1285 Bressoud, David M., 20 Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference, 735 Burroughs, John, 1236 Mathematics Research Communities Program Kicks Off Calegari, Danny, 1410 (Allyn Jackson), 224 Carleson, Lennart, 692 Nebraska Department Wins Exemplary Program Award Casselman, Bill, 36, 915 (Allyn Jackson), 622 Cheng, Xiaowen, 356 NSF Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request (Allyn Jackson), 962 Chernoff, Paul R., 1236 (A) Photographic Look at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Coetzee, J. M., 944 Washington, DC, 2009, 480 Conrey, Brian, 692 Presidential Views: Interview with George Andrews (Allyn Conway, John H., 226 Jackson), 383 Cox, Dana, 1098 Presidential Views: Interview with James Glimm (Allyn Crannell, Annalisa, 233 Jackson), 247 Crook, J. F., 460 Proving Yourself: How to Develop an Interview Lecture Deschamp, Brent, 380 (John Swallow), 948 Dingman, Shannon, 1098 Revisiting the Question of Diversity: Faculties and Ph.D. Donaldson, Simon, 1276 Programs (H. G. Grundman), 1115 Doob, Michael, 7 Steven G. Krantz Appointed Notices Editor (Elaine Kehoe), Doyle, John C., 586 1445 Drane, Denise, 253 Tribute to André Lichnerowicz (1915–1998) (Yvette Dunton-Downer, Leslie, 1236 Kosmann-Schwarzbach), 244 Duren, Peter, 1440 WHAT IS…the Complex Dual to the Real Sphere? (Simon Dyson, Freeman, 212 Gindikin), 942 Einsiedler, Manfred, 600 WHAT IS…an Elliptic Genus? (Serge Ochanine), 720 Fakhari, S. A. Seyed, 1106 WHAT IS…a Legendrian Knot? (Joshua M. Sabloff), 1282 Farb, Benson, 1410 WHAT IS…Lehmer’s Number (Eriko Hironaka), 374 Farmer, David W., 1447 WHAT IS…Measure Rigidity? (Manfred Einsiedler), 600 Friedlander, John, 692, 817 WHAT IS…the Parity Phenomenon? (John Friedlander and Fujiwara, Koji, 1410 Henryk Iwaniec), 817 Gadde, Anandaswarup, 1410
DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1505 2009 Index
Gelfand, Mikhail, 1268 Newton, Jill, 1098 Ghosh, Amit, 692 Ochanine, Serge, 720 Gindikin, Simon, 942 Onnela, Jukka-Pekka, 1082 Gleason, Jean Berko, 1236 Ovsienko, Valentin, 34 Glimm, James, 797 Palais, Richard, 1236 Golden, Kenneth M., 562 Patterson, Samuel J., 692 Goldfeld, Dorian, 692 Peters, Klaus, 819 Goldin, Rebecca, 483 Phipps, Polly, 257, 388, 828, 1289 Goodstein, Judith, 800 Porter, Mason A., 1082 Grätzer, G., 52, 627, 954 Pournaki, M. R., 1106 Gray, Mary W., 1072 Propp, James, 31 Grundman, H. G., 1115 Quarteroni, Alfio, 10 Gunning, Robert C., 1438 Quinn, Frank, 559 Guo, Li, 1436 Rankin, Samuel M., III, 797, 1285 Hallett, Deborah Hughes, 1236 Raussen, Martin, 471 Hart, Jarod V., 356 Reeds, Jim, 1236 Heath-Brown, Roger, 692 Reys, Robert, 1098 Hefferon, Jim, 348 Rose, Colleen, 257, 388, 828, 1289 Hegazi, A. S., 343 Rubinstein, Hyam, 1410 Hejhal, Dennis, 692 Sabloff, Joshua M., 1282 Hironaka, Eriko, 374 Sarnak, Peter, 692 Hirzebruch, Friedrich E. P., 713 Sastri, Chelluri C. A., 726 Horváth, John, 616 Schochet, Claude, 809 Huckleberry, Alan, 38 Schuller, Mary, 253 Iwaniec, Henryk, 817 Shalen, Peter, 1410 Jackson, Allyn, 48, 51, 224, 247, 383, 386, 622, 639, 911, Shallit, Jeffrey, 1109 962, 1426 Skau, Christian, 471 Jalali, Behzad, 1072 Spencer, Joel, 1236 Johnson, Jesse, 723 Stevens, T. Christine, 1236 Jones, Christopher K. R. T., 445 Sussmann, Hector, 376 Kalai, Gil, 1276 Swallow, John, 948 Kasman, Alex, 27 Tabachnikov, Sergei, 34 Keen, Linda, 1229 Tecosky-Feldman, Jeff, 1236 Kehoe, Elaine, 1309, 1445 Ton-That, Tuong, 931 Kenyon, Richard, 1276 Tousi, M., 1106 Kister, Jane, 50 Tsang, K. M., 692 Klink, William H., 931 Tucker, Alan, 754 Kochen, Simon, 226 Tucker, Thomas, 1236 Kolikant, Yifat Ben-David, 253 Walker, James S., 356 Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette, 244 Wermer, John, 1236 Koutsoliotas, Sally, 1447 Willinger, Walter, 586 Kreck, Matthias, 713 Yassemi, S., 1106 Laison, Joshua D., 1451 Zitarelli, David E., 450 Lewis, James, 754 Lickorish, W. B. Raymond, 240 Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals, 1316 Lieberman, David, 1236 Lipscomb, Stephen Leon, 1418 Book Reviews — See Reviews Luo, Wenzhi, 692 Macintyre, Angus, 1276 Classified Advertisements Magid, Andy, 687, 1407 82, 320, 428, 537, 668, 778, 877, 1044, 1157, 1373, 1483 Malliavin, Paul, 692 Manderscheid, David, 611 Corrections Maxwell, James W., 257, 388, 828, 1289 Correction to “John Ewing Retires from the AMS” (January Mazur, Barry, 1410 2009), 271 McClure, Donald E., 1229 Correction to “WHAT IS…a Cross Ratio?” (November Miller, Stephen, 1410 2008), 8 Mj, Mahan, 1410 Corrections to “A Celebration of Women in Mathematics Moore, Gregory H., 823 at MIT” (January 2009), 345 Mucha, Peter J., 1082 Corrections to “Remembering Atle Selberg” and the review Murray, Margaret A. M., 42 of Mathematics and Common Sense (June/July 2009), 852
1506 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11 2009 Index
Photograph of Atle Selberg, 1311 Reingold, Nicholas, 401 Rickart, Charles E., 748 Deaths of AMS Members Rohde, F. Virginia, 852 Aeppli, Alfred, 64 Rotter, Paul T., 852 Aizpuru, Antonio, 275 Russo, Dominick A., 852 Albertson, Michael O., 852 Schatz, Joseph A., 852 Aliprantis, C. D., 852 Schaumberger, Norman, 975 Anderson, Allan G., 852 Schwartz, Jacob T., 852 Anderson, Jack M., 275 Smith, Robert H., 275 Ballantine, Charles S., 852 Stallings, John Robert, 401 Barnard, Robert D., 852 Sweeney, John J., 852 Bierstedt, Klaus D., 975 Terzuoli, Andrew J., 748 Brown, Leon, 509 Tomer, Eugene R., 748 Burrill, Claude W., 852 Towber, Jacob, 509 Byers, G. C., 401 Transue, William, 975 Christenson, Charles, 401 Vamanamurthy, Mavina K., 975 Cigic, Vlado, 748 Vinnichenko, Sergey Viktorovich, 975 Cormier, Romae J., 64 Williams, Bennie B., 748 Cornet, H., 401 Williamson, Susan, 275 Dauns, John, 975 Wood, Rhoda, 748 De Jong, Frederik J., 975 Wrench, John W., Jr., 975 Dou, Alberto M., 975 Ziebur, Allen D., 975 Dragos, Lazar, 975 Drouilhet, Sidney James, II, 509 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2007–2008, 281 Elder, Alexander S., 509 Supplementary List, 840 Eytan, Michel, 509 Foote, Joe R., 509 Election Information (AMS) Fredrickson, Elvy L., 852 2008 Election Results, 304 Gaughan, Edward D., 852 2009 AMS Election Nominations by Petition, 305 Gleason, Andrew M., 64 2009 American Mathematical Society Election (Special Good, Irving John, 852 Section), 982 Good, Richard A., 852 Biographies of Candidates, 2009, 990 Gottlieb, David, 275 Call for Suggestions for 2010 AMS Elections, 1003 Greaves, George R., 64 Election Information, 984 Gruenberg, Karl Walter, 748 Halberg, Charles J. A., Jr., 975 List of Candidates, 984 Herschorn, Michael, 401 Nominations by Petition for 2009 AMS Election, 1004 Hlawka, Edmund, 852 Nominations for President, 986 Hochstadt, Harry, 852 Employment Center Hunt, Richard A., 852 Hursch, Jack L., 64 Mathematical Sciences Employment Center in San Fran- Iancu, Craciun, 275 cisco, CA, 1046, 1168 Ito, Kiyoshi, 275 Grants, Fellowships, Opportunities Juberg, Richard K., 975 Kim, Ki Hang, 852 2009 Fermat Prize for Mathematics Research, 61 Knudsen, John R., 852 AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants, 1307 Konijn, Hendrik S., 275 American Institute of Mathematics Call for Proposals, Kucher, John R., 748 1123 Light, William, 275 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships, Lorell, Jack, 748 971, 1305 Meserve, Bruce E., 852 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 1305 Middleton, David, 275 AMS Department Chairs Workshop, 743 Moser, William O. J., 509 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1122 Motwani, Rajeev, 975 AMS Graduate Student Blog, 639 Nagata, Masayoshi, 58 AMS Scholarships for “Math in Moscow”, 971 Niemeyer, Horst F., 64 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships, 59, 1122 Nomizu, Katsumi, 275 AWM Travel Grants for Women, 973 Ohm, Jack, 401 Call for Entries for Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize, 847 Piatetski-Shapiro, Ilya, 509 Call for Nominations for 2009 Sacks Prize, 847 Pimbley, George, 275 Call for Nominations for 2010 Leroy P. Steele Prizes, 515
DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1507 2009 Index
Call for Nominations for AMS Award for Mathematics NSF Focused Research Groups, 846 Programs That Make a Difference, 408 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, 1306 Call for Nominations for the AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Train- Brennie Morgan Prize, 518 ing, 399 Call for Nominations for Chern Medal, 972 NSF International Research Fellow Awards, 972 Call for Nominations for Clay Research Fellows, 973 NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Call for Nominations for David P. Robbins Prize, 517 ships, 846 Call for Nominations for Distinguished Public Service NSF Partnerships for International Research and Educa- Award, 516 tion, 273 Call for Nominations for E. H. Moore Research Article NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships, 1122 Prize, 516 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, 639 Call for Nominations for Heineman Prize, 744 NSF Program ADVANCE, 272 Call for Nominations for ICTP Ramanujan Prize, 744 NSF Program in Foundations of Data and Visual Analyt- Call for Nominations for the Levi L. Conant Prize, 516 ics, 506 Call for Nominations for Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied NSF Support for Undergraduate Training in Biological and Mathematics, 517 Mathematical Sciences, 273 Call for Nominations for Oswald Veblen Prize in Geom- NSF-CBMS Regional Conferences, 2009, 507 etry, 517 PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowships, 974 Call for Nominations for Parzen Prize, 743 Plus Magazine New Writers Award, 61 Call for Nominations for Popov Prize, 743 Project NExT: New Experiences in Teaching, 507 Call for Nominations for SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, 743 Proposal Due Dates at the DMS, 59 Call for Nominations for Sloan Fellowships, 846 Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 1306 Call for Nominations for TWAS Prizes, 506 Research Opportunities for U.S. Graduate Students in Asia Call for Proposals for 2010 NSF-CBMS Regional Confer- and Australia, 1306 ences, 506 Summer Program for Women Undergraduates, 273 Call for Proposals for 2011 von Neumann Symposium, 878 Travel Grants for ICM 2010, 847 Clay Mathematics Institute 2009 Summer School, 62 Visiting Positions at CIRM, 1123 DARPA Mathematical Challenges, 60 Departments Again Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 61 Invited Speakers DMS Workforce Program, 506 Abreu, Victor Perez (Berkeley, CA), 786 EDGE for Women Summer Program, 1459 Adem, Alejandro (Berkeley, CA), 786 Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in the Alexakis, Spridon (Boca Raton, FL), 100 Twenty-First Century, 1122 Baker, Matthew H. (Richmond, VA), 1393 ETS Visiting Scholars Program, 1460 Ben-Zvi, David (Waco, TX), 99 Graduate Student Travel Grants to 2010 JMM, 973 Bhargava, Manjul (San Francisco, CA), 1183 International Mathematics Competition for University Blum, Lenore (San Francisco, CA), 1183 Students, 639 Brendle, Simon (Newark, NJ), 1391 Jefferson Science Fellows Program, 1306 Bromberg, Kenneth (Albuquerque, NM), 786 Mathematics Research Communities 2009, 272, 398 Bryant, Robert J. (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 90 MfA Fellowship Program, 1460 Bux, Kai-Uwe (Boca Raton, FL), 100 National Academies Christine Mirzayan Graduate Fellow- Calegari, Danny (Albuquerque, NM), 786 ship Program, 1459 Choi, Young Ju (Seoul, South Korea), 783 National Academies Research Associateship Programs, 60 Cornea, Octav (Worcester, MA), 98 NDSEG Fellowships, 60 Deift, Percy A. (Lexington, KY), 785 News from the CRM, 1308 DeMarco, Laura (Notre Dame, IN), 787 News from the Fields Institute, 61, 974 Doering, Charles (St. Paul, MN), 785 News from the Institut Mittag-Leffler, 1307 Dumitriu, Ioana (Albuquerque, NM), 786 News from IPAM, 1460 Dunfield, Nathan (Raleigh, NC), 96 News from the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 62, Ellenberg, Jordan (Notre Dame, IN), 1059 1461 Emerton, Matthew James (St. Paul, MN), 1206 Noether Lecture at ICM 2010, 61 Evans, L. Craig (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 90 Nominations for Information-Based Complexity Prize Field, Michael J. (Richmond, VA), 1393 2009, 273 Fisher, David (Notre Dame, IN), 787 NRC-Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, 972, 1307 Glimm, James G. (San Francisco, CA), 784 NSA Mathematical Sciences Grants and Sabbaticals Pro- Hacon, Christopher (Riverside, CA), 101 gram, 846 Hang, Fengbo (Worcester, MA), 98 NSF CAREER Program Guidelines Available, 846 Harris, Joseph (San Francisto, CA), 1179 NSF Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences, 399 Holtz, Olga (San Francisco, CA), 785 NSF Computing Equipment and Instrumentation Pro- Huisgen-Zimmerman, Birge (Riverside, CA), 101 grams, 1459 Kenyon, Richard W. (San Francisco, CA), 785
1508 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11 2009 Index
Kiessling, Michael K. H. (University Park, PA), 100 Wood, Melanie (Los Angeles, CA), 787 Kim, Bumsig (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Wunsch, Jared (Notre Dame, IN), 787 Kim, Minhyong (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Yuan, Xiaoping (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 90 Kiselev, Alexander A. (Waco, TX), 99 Zeilberger, Doron (Lexington, KY), 785 Kuperberg, Greg (Los Angeles, CA), 787 Zelmanov, Efim (San Francisco, CA), 99 Lagarias, Jeffrey C. (Urbana, IL), 92 Zhang, Weiping (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 90 Laubenbacher, Reinhard C. (Raleigh, NC), 96 Zworski, Maciej (Berkeley, CA), 786 Lee, Ki-ahm (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Li, Jun (Riverside, CA), 101 Letters to the Editor Li, Peter W-K (Berkeley, CA), 786 Barbeau, Ed (Why the Sky Is Still Falling), 448 Lorenzini, Dino J. (Boca Raton, FL), 100 Boyadzhiev, Khristo (More on Non-English Names), 8 Lubkin, Sharon R. (Richmond, VA), 1393 Bruff, Derek (Evaluating Teaching in Interviews), 345 Lupercio, Ernesto (Berkeley, CA), 786 Cossey, J. P. (In Defense of Teaching Postdocs), 560 Lurie, Jacob (Urbana, IL), 92 Damlamian, Alain (Citation Statistics Report Citation), 209 Ma, Zhi-Ming (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 90 Doob, Michael (Reply to Carol Mead), 560 Mattingly, Jonathan C. (Raleigh, NC), 96 Dyson, Freeman (Replies and Correction), 689 McDuff, Dusa (San Francisco, CA), 1183 Editor’s Note, 1234 McKernan, James T. (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Finn, Robert (Loewner Archive Established), 210 Mischaikow, Konstantin M. (Newark, NJ), 1391 Haber, Seymour (Salary Trends), 209 Mitrea, Irina (Lexington, KY), 785 Harris, Michael (Human Understanding and Formal Proof), Moore, Cris (Los Angeles, CA), 787 689 Morgan, Frank (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Harrison, John (Reply to Harris), 690 Mosco, Umberto (Worcester, MA), 98 Hochschild, Gerhard (Calculus and Computers in Math- Nochetto, Ricardo H. (Newark, NJ), 1392 ematical Education), 1233 Oh, Hee (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Ilyashenko, Yu. (Deligne/Zimin Initiative to Support Young Osher, Stanley (Los Angeles, CA), 787 Mathematicians), 1232 Parimala, Raman (Raleigh, NC), 96 Kedlaya, Kiran S. (Hedgehogs and Foxes, Not Birds and Payne, Kevin R. (University Park, PA), 100 Frogs), 688 Pisier, Gilles (Urbana, IL), 92 Khovanova, Tanya (Mathematics Education for Girls), 209 Reed, Michael C. (Waco, TX), 99 Marcus, Solomon (Zoological Metaphors for Mathemati- Reznick, Bruce (Lexington, KY), 785 cians), 688 Rhode, Steffen (Albuquerque, NM), 786 Mead, Carol (Preserve the Old Media Also), 560 Richter, Stefan (Richmond, VA), 1393 Mullin, Albert A. (WHAT IS…a Mathematics Professor?), 8 Rodnianski, Igor (Waco, TX), 99; (San Francisco, CA), 785 Murr, Hadi Alfred (The Mathematician Is a Poet), 798 Saloff-Coste, Laurent (University Park, PA), 100 Schoen, Richard (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), 90 Nivasch, Gabriel (Imperfect Mathematics), 209 Schwartz, Richard E. (Newark, NJ), 1392 Osserman, Robert (Loewner Archive Established), 210 Shalom, Yehuda (San Francisco, CA), 99 Rosinger, Elemer E. (Separating Mathematicians), 688 Shor, Peter W. (San Francisco, CA), 785 Ruelle, David (Some Comments on “Period Three Implies Sontag, Eduardo D. (Boca Raton, FL), 100 Chaos”), 688; (Reply to Yorke), 1233 Stanley, Richard P. (San Francisco, CA), 785 Sossinsky, A. (Deligne/Zimin Initiative to Support Young Strogatz, Steven H. (San Francisco, CA), 1179 Mathematicians), 1232 Tao, Terence (Seoul, South Korea), 783; (Los Angeles, CA), Tanton, James (Math Circles), 345 787 Taylor, Peter (Why the Sky Is Still Falling), 448 Teran, Joseph (Riverside, CA), 101 Vershik, A. (Deligne/Zimin Initiative to Support Young Touraev, Vladimir (St. Paul, MN), 785 Mathematicians), 1232 Ulrich, Bernd (Lexington, KY), 785 Whiteley, Walter (Why the Sky Is Still Falling), 448 van Brummelen, Glen (San Francisco, CA), 1183 Wild, Marcel (A Formula for Citations), 8 Vaughan, Robert C. (University Park, PA), 100 Yorke, James (Response to David Ruelle), 1232 Venkatesh, Akshay (Urbana, IL), 92 Zulli, Louis (TEX Vector Graphics), 561 Verjovsky, Alberto (Berkeley, CA), 786 Vershynin, Roman (San Francisco, CA), 99 Mathematics Calendar Vogtmann, Karen (San Francisco, CA), 99 70, 307, 409, 519, 652, 761, 861, 1015, 1146, 1358, 1476 Vu, Van (Seoul, South Korea), 783 Waterman, Michael S. (Raleigh, NC), 323 Meeting Announcements, Presenters of Papers, Webb, Peter (St. Paul, MN), 785 and Programs White, Brian (San Francisco, CA), 1179 Boca Raton, FL, October 2009 (announcement), 885 Whitesides, Sue (San Francisco, CA), 1183 Raleigh, NC, April 2009 (announcement), 95 Whyte, Kevin (Worcester, MA), 98 Riverside, CA, November 2009 (announcement), 1052 Wilkinson, Amie (San Francisco, CA), 785 San Francisco, CA, April 2009 (announcement), 324
DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1509 2009 Index
San Francisco, CA, January 2010 (announcement), 1179; My First Forty (Andy Magid), 687 (timetable), 1212 Preserving our History (Michael Doob), 7 Seoul, South Korea, December 2009 (announcement), 889 Strikes Sweep French Universities (Allyn Jackson), 913 University Park, PA, October 2009 (announcement), 882 Urbana, IL, March 2009 (announcement), 92 Prizes and Awards Waco, TX, October 2009 (announcement), 879 AAAS Fellows (Walter Craig, Robert J. Daverman, Richard Washington, DC, January 2009 (presenters of papers and Durrett, Alexander Nagel, Jacob Rubinstein, William Y. program of the sessions), 105 Velez, Chandrajit Bajaj, Alan Kay, Daniel E. Koditschek, Worcester, MA, April 2009 (announcement), 326 Dexter Kozen), 505 AAAS Mentor Award, 2008 (Sylvia T. Bozeman), 637 Meetings and Conferences* Abel Prize, 2009 (Mikhail L. Gromov), 730 90, 322, 429, 539, 671, 780, 879, 1049, 1174, 1384, 1491 ACM Gödel Prize (Omer Reingold, Salil Vadhan, Avi Wig- (*Page numbers given are to the main meeting an- derson), 967 nouncements. See http://www.ams.org/meetings ACM Knuth Prize (Volker Strassen), 268 for full details and updates.) ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (Corinna AAAS Meeting Features Mathematics and Applications, Cortes, Vladimir Vapnik), 845 February 12–16, 2009, Chicago, IL, 86 Adams Prize, 2009 (Raphaël Rouquier), 844 Call for Organizers 2010 MRC Conferences, 87 AIM Five-Year Fellowships, 2009 (Melanie Matchett Wood, Coimbra Meeting on 0-1 Matrix Theory and Related Top- Kirsten Graham Wickelgren), 637 ics, Portugal, 903 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elections, 2009 First International Conference on Mathematics and Statis- (Spencer J. Bloch, Robert A. Fefferman, Dorian Goldfeld, tics, United Arab Emirates, 680 Douglas R. Hofstadter, Maria Klawe, Stanley J. Osher, General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences Michael Sipser, Terence Tao, Gunther Uhlmann, Ruth of the AMS, 89 J. Williams), 844 Mathematics Research Communities, June 13–July 3, 2009, AMS Centennial Fellowship, 2009–2010 (Antonio Montal- Snowbird, UT, 199 bán), 738 San Francisco Meeting Registration Forms, 1221, 1397, AMS Menger Awards at the 2009 ISEF (First Place—Joshua 1517 Vekhter; Second-Place—Andrei Triffo, Yale Wang Fan; Table of Contents, Meetings and Conferences, 199, 335, Third-Place—Almas Abdulla, Sarah L. Sellers, Sohini 429, 550, 680, 791, 903, 1063, 1223, 1399, 1519 Sengupta, Sameer K. Deshpande, Jeffrey Chan, Alicia Zhang; Honorable Mention—Martin A. Camacho, Mi- New Publications Offered by the AMS chael C. Yurko, Wenhan Cui, Matthew H. Stoffregen, 75, 311, 417, 527, 661, 772, 865, 1033, 1149, 1362, 1468 Nilesh Tripuraneni), 967 André-Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize, 2009 (Valentin Noticed Blomer), 740 47, 232, 236, 719, 745 ASL Karp Prize, 2008 (Zlil Sela), 638 ASL Sacks Prize, 2008 (Inessa Epstein, Dilip Raghavan), 638 Obituaries Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in A. O. L. Atkin (1923–2008), 505 a Mathematics Department, 2009 (University of Ne- Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008), 1236 braska-Lincoln), 632 Atle Selberg (1917–2007), 692 AWM Awards (2009 Louise Hay Award—Deborah Loewen- Homage to Henri Cartan (1904–2008), 614 berg Ball; Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Math- Kenneth M. Hoffman (1930–2008), 270 ematics by an Undergraduate Woman—Maria Monks; Marcia P. Sward (1939–2008), 271 Honorable Mention—Doris Dobi, Nicole Larsen, Ila Masayoshi Nagata (1927–2008), 58 Varma), 636 Remembering John Stallings, 1410 AWM Essay Contest Winners, 1121 Opinion B. H. Neumann Awards, 2009 (Katrina Sims, Elena Stoya- Anniversaries (Andy Magid), 1407 nova, Latchezar (Nedeltchev) Stoyanov), 1458 Climate Change: Can Mathematics Help Clear the Air? Birkhoff Prize, 2009 (Joel Smoller), 492 (Christopher K. R. T. Jones), 445 Blumenthal Award, 2009 (Maryam Mirzakhani), 504 Congressional Testimony in Support of NSF (James Glimm, CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Samuel M. Rankin), 797 2009 (Hong Guo), 741 (The) Employment Market for Early Career Mathematicians Clay Liftoff Fellows, 2009 (David Anderson, Jonah Blasiak, (Linda Keen, Donald E. McClure), 1229 Victor Lie, Grigor Sargsyan, Andrew Snowden, Melanie Global Crises from the Perspective of Complex Adaptive Matchett Wood, Xinwen Zhu), 1458 Systems (E. Ahmed, A. S. Hegazi), 343 Clay Research Awards, 2009 (Jean-Loup Waldspurger, Ian K–12 Calculator Woes (Frank Quinn), 559 Agol, Danny Calegari, David Gabai), 739 (A) Mathematician Runs for Political Office (Daniel Biss), Clay Research Fellowships, 2009 (Sucharit Sarkar), 637 207 CME/MSRI Prize, 2008 (Lars Peter Hansen), 56
1510 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11 2009 Index
CMFT Young Researcher Award, 2009 (Darren Crowdy), Award—Richard A. Guyer, Randy K. Schwartz; Lester 969 R. Ford Awards—Michel Balinski, Andrew Bashelor, CMS Prizes (2010 Krieger-Nelson Prize—Lia Bronsard; Amy Ksir, Will Traves, Andrew Granville, Dan Kalman, 2010 Jeffery-Williams Prize—Mikhail Lyubich; 2009 Mehrdad Khosravi, Michael D. Taylor; Merten M. Hasse Coxeter-James Prize—Patrick Brosnan), 740 Prize—Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, Will Traves; George Cole Prize in Algebra, 2009 (Christopher Hacon, James Pólya Award—Lawrence Brenton, Greg N. Frederickson; McKernan) 494 George Pólya Lectureship—Judy Walker; Henry L. Alder Computer-Aided Verification Prize, 2009 (Conor F. Ma- Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning Col- digan, Sharad Malik, Joao P. Marques-Silva, Matthew lege or University Mathematics Faculty Member—Scott W. Moskewicz, Karem A. Sakallah, Lintao Zhang, Ying Annin, Sommer Gentry, Jennifer McLoud-Mann), 1303 Zhao), 1456 MAA Prizes Presented in Washington, DC, 2009 (Gung Conant Prize, 2009 (John W. Morgan), 500 and Hu Award for Distinguished Service—Robert Meg- CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize, 2009 (Martin Barlow), 395 ginson; Haimo Awards for Teaching—Michael Bardzell, CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics, 2009 (Hugh Chipman), 740 David Pengelley, Vali Siadat; Chauvenet Prize—Harold Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathematical Physics, 2009 Boas; Euler Book Prize—Siobhan Roberts; Certificates of (Alain Rouet, Carlo Becchi, Igor Tyutin, Raymond Stora), Meritorious Service— Carl C. Cowen, Richard Anderson, 638 John Fuelberth, John R. Michel, David R. Stone), 635 Dirac Medal, 2009 (Roberto Car, Michele Parrinello), 1302 Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference (North DMV Media Prizes, 2008 (Christoph Drosser, Agnes Hand- Carolina State University, University of Mississippi), 735 werk), 269 Moody Foundation Mega Math Challenge, 2009 (Summa Emil Artin Junior Prize, 2009 (Grigor Sargsyan), 1120 Cum Laude—Steve Castellano, Ethan Dale, Jay Feldman, Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize, 2009 (Tim Browning), 739 Dan Mane, Matthew Warshauer; Magna Cum Laude— Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, 2008 (Taniecea A. Joshua Casmir Catalano, Eric Higgins, Donald Anthony Arceneaux, Anthony M. Franklin), 969 Meier, Charles Harold O’Leary, William Francies Yost; Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, 2009 (Carlos E. Cum Laude—Matt Halpern, Brett Musco, Chris Shaw, Arreche, Ashley Crump, Bianca Viray), 1304 Karan Takhar, Alex Wheelock; Meritorious—Joshua Fulbright Foreign Scholarships, 2008–2009 (Akram Al- Eiseman, Peter Humanik, Elan Paz Kugelmass, Taesup droubi, Richard M. Aron, John J. Borkowski Jr., Justin Lee, Jordan Moldow; Exemplary—Shir Aharon, Chris J. Corvino, Edward T. Dobson, Sonia M. Garcia, Jie Shen, Bergman, Moya Chin, Tracie Kong, Yun Hui Lin; First Joseph S. Verducci), 741 Honorable Mention—Kyle Beatty, Jonathan Choi, Jason Gold Medals of the Sobolev Institute, 2009 (Dana Scott, Gandelman, Naveen Murali, Justin Sherman), 845 Igor Shafarevich), 741 Morgan Prize, 2009 (Aaron Pixton), 502 Guggenheim Fellows, 2009 (Sally Blower, Jianqing Fan, A. National Academy of Engineering Elections (Howard A. S. Fokas, Wilhelm Schlag, Shou-Wu Zhang, 741 Stone), 638 Humboldt Foundation Awards (Marc Levine 2009, Predrag National Academy of Sciences Elections (Sun-Yung Alice Cvitanovic´ 2009, Mark Strikman 2009, Toshiyuki Ko- Chang, Percy Deift, John E. Hopcroft, Thomas J. R. bayashi, 2008), 741 Hughes, John W. Morgan, Christos C. Papadimitriou, ICA Euler Medal, 2008 (Gábor Korchmáros), 969 Gilbert Strang, Cumrun Vafa, Wing H. Wong), 844 ICMI Felix Klein Medal (Guy Brousseau), 1304 NDSEG Fellowships, 57; (Joshua Batson, Doris Dobi, Dmi- ICRA Awards (Igor Burban and Steffen Oppermann), 57 triy Drusvyatskiy, Christopher Dubois, Adam Elmach- ICTP/IMU Ramanujan Prize (Enrique R. Pujals), 268 toub, Nicholas Haber, Russell Howes, John Kolinski, Information-Based Complexity Prize, 2009 (Thomas Kathryn Lindsey, Po-Ling Loh, Aaron Pixton, Steven Sam, Mueller-Gronbach), 844 Stanley Snelson, Ely Spears, Kerry Stevens, Vladislav Information-Based Complexity Young Researcher Award, Voroninski), 1457 2008 (Jan Vybiral), 269 NSF CAREER Awards, 2008 (Yuri Bakhtin, Scott Baldridge, INFORMS Award (Thomas L. Saaty), 269 Jozsef Balog, Alina Cojocaru, Laura DeMarco, Mathias Intel Science Talent Search Scholarships, 2009 (Eric Larson, Drton, Selim Esedoglu, Dan Geba, David Glickenstein, Noah Arbesfeld, Nilesh Tripuraneni), 742 Shelly Harvey, Demetrio Labata, Melvin Leok, Yufeng International Mathematical Olympiad, 2009 (John Berman, Liu, Per-Gunnar Martinsson, Govind Menon, Luke Olson, Wenyu Cao, Eric Larson, Delong Meng, Evan O’Dorney, Martin Olsson, Johan Paulsson, Firas Rassoul-Agha, Qinxuan Pan), 1304 Benjamin Sudakov, Min Yang, Wotao Yin, Ji Zhu), 269 ISEF Mathematical Sciences Awards, 2009, 968 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, 2009 (Boris Alexeev, JPBM Communications Award, 2009 (George Csicsery), 630 Carlos Eduardo Arreche, Joshua D. Batson, Doris Dobi, John von Neumann Theory Prize, 2008 (Frank P. Kelly), 740 Arthur J. Friend, Maxwell J. Grazier G’Sell, Russell E. Krupp Prize (Kathrin Bringmann), 1119 Howes, Tyler L. Kelly, Sarah Khasawinah, Sam J. Lewal- Leibniz Prize, 2009 (Burkhard Wilking and Martin R. Zirn- len, Samuel Lichtenstein, Aaron Mazel-Gee, Gregory T. bauer), 395 Minton, Andrew N. Niles, Nathan K. Pflueger, Anatoly Loève Prize, 2009 (Alice Guionnet), 1302 Preygel, Steven V. Sam, Hakan Ali-John Seyalioglu, MAA Awards, 2009 (Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards—Vesna Shrenik N. Shah, Samuel S. Watson, James E. Weigandt, Stojanoska, Orlin Stoytchev, Jeff Suzuki; Trevor Evans Eric R. Wofsey), 738
DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1511 2009 Index
ONR Young Investigator Award, 2009 (Ping Li), 739 Group—Martin Golubitsky; Career Prize of the SIAM Operator Algebra Prize (Narutaka Ozawa), 269 Activity Group on Geosciences—Mary F. Wheeler; Junior Packard Fellowship, 2008 (Assaf Naor), 396 Scientist Prize of the SIAM Activity Group on Geosci- PECASE Award, 2007 (Alexander Gamburg), 504 ences—Jan M. Nordbotten; Mathematical Contest in Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation Awards, 2009 Modeling—Christopher Chang, Zhou Fan, Yi Sun, Ste- (Matt Alexander, Neil Biegalle, Adam Boseman, Lisa phen Foster, Bob Potter, Tommy Rogers; Student Paper Curll, Thomas Eliot, Harold L. Gomes, Masaki Ikeda, Prizes—Awad H. Al-Mohy, Jie Chen, Shun Zhang), 1119 Jennifer Jordan, Jason Lutz, Sean Watson, Moriah Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology, Wright), 1457 2008 (Eric K. Larson, Ashok Cutkosky, Hayden C. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Metsky, Raphael-Joel Lim, Mark Zhang, Erika DeBene- and Engineering Mentoring (Philip Kutzko), 1303 dictis, Duanni (Tony) Huang), 396 Prizes of the Canadian Mathematical Society, 2009 Sloan Research Fellowships, 2009 (Gerard Awanou, Fran- (Doctoral Prize—Mark Braverman; G. de B. Robinson cesco Calegari, Izzet Coskun, Ciprian Demeter, Julien Award—Dmitry Jakobson, Nikolai Nadirashvili, Iosif Dubédat, Justin A. Holmer, Chiu-Yen Kao, Thomas Lam, Polterovich; Excellence in Teaching Award—David Robert Lipshitz, Dan Margalit, Alina Marian, Yoichiro Poole; 2008 Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Mori, Jesse Peterson, Jian Song, Luis E. Silvestre, Juli- Service—Bill Sands; 2008 David Borwein Distinguished anna Tymoczko, Lauren K. Williams, Wotao Yin), 738 Career Award—Hermann Brunner), 1121 Steele Prizes, 2009 (I. G. Macdonald, Richard Hamilton, Prizes of the London Mathematical Society, 2009 (Pólya Luis Caffarelli), 488 Prize—Roger Heath-Brown; Senior Whitehead Prize— TWAS Prize in Mathematics (Vasudevan Srinivas), 268 Vladimir Maz’ya; Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Ap- USA Mathematical Olympiad, 2009 (John Berman, Sergei plied Mathematics—Philip Maini; Berwick Prize—Joseph Bernstein, Wenyu Cao, Robin Cheng, Vlad Firoiu, Eric Chuang, Radha Kessar; Whitehead Prizes—Mihalis Da- Larson, Delong Meng, Qinxuan Pan, Panupong Pasupat, fermos, Cornelia Drutu, Robert Marsh, Markus Owen), Toan Phan, David Rush, David Yang), 845 1120 von Staudt Prize (Gerd Faltings), 57 Prizes of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Autumn Whiteman Prize, 2009 (Jeremy J. Gray), 498 Prize—Masanao Ozawa; Analysis Prizes—Ken-iti Sato, Hideo Tamura, Nakao Hayahi), 395 Prizewinners Prizes of the Mathematical Society of Japan, 2009 (Spring Abdulla, Almas (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Prize—Narutaka Ozawa; Algebra Prize—Keiji Oguiso, Abdulle, Assyr (2009 SIAM James H. Wilkinson Prize in Akihiko Yukie; Publication Prize—Masahito Takase), Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing), 1119 1456 Agol, Ian (2009 Clay Research Awards), 739 Putnam Prizes (Brian R. Lawrence, Seok Hyeong Lee, Arnav Aldroubi, Akran (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholar- Tripathy, Bohua Zhan, Yufei Zhao), 742 ship), 741 Rhodes Scholarships (Joshua A. Lospinoso, Anna Yerma- Alexander, Matt (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Pre- kova), 396 sentation Award), 1457 Rollo Davidson Prize, 2009 (Gregory Miermont), 740 Anderson, David (2009 Clay Liftoff Fellow), 1458 Royal Society of London Elections, 270; (Michael Batty, Jonathan P. Keating, Burt J. Totaro, Yakov Sinai), 970 Anderson, Richard (MAA Certificate of Meritorious Ser- Salem Prize, 2008 (Bo’az Klartag, Assaf Naor), 505 vice), 635 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, 2008 (Akshay Venkatesh), 56 Annin, Scott (2009 MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Distin- Satter Prize, 2009 (Laure Saint-Raymond), 496 guished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Seaborg SIYSS Award (ISEF), 2009 (Eric K. Larson), 969 Mathematics Faculty Member), 1303 Shaw Prize, 2009 (Simon K. Donaldson, Clifford H. Taubes), Arceneaux, Taniecea A. (2008 Ford Foundation Diversity 952 Fellowship), 969 SIAM Names 183 Fellows, 2009, 1121 Aron, Richard M. (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholar- SIAM Prizes, 2009 (Theodore von Kármán Prize—Mary F. ship), 741 Wheeler; W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics— Arreche, Carlos E. (2009 Ford Foundation Diversity Fel- Anders Lindquist; John von Neumann Lecturer—Franco lowship), 1304 Brezzi; Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Awanou, Gerard (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Prize—Rafal Goebel; Ralph E. Kleinman Prize—Weinan Bajaj, Chandrajit (AAAS Fellow), 505 E; James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis Balinski, Michel (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303 and Scientific Computing—Assyr Abdulle; Germund Ball, Deborah Loewenberg (2009 AWM Louise Hay Award), Dahlquist Prize—Eric Vanden-Eijnden; AWM-SIAM 636 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer—Andrea Bertozzi; I. E. Block Bardzell, Michael (Haimo Award for Teaching), 633 Community Lecturer—Andrew W. Lo; Prize for Distin- Barlow, Martin (2009 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize), 395 guished Service to the Profession—J. Tinsley Oden; Bashelor, Andrew (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303; J. D. Crawford Prize of the SIAM Activity Group on (2009 MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize), 1303 Dynamical Systems—Arnd Scheel; 2009 Jürgen Moser Batson, Joshua (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Lectureship of the SIAM Dynamical Systems Activity Batty, Michael (Royal Society of London Elections), 970
1512 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11 2009 Index
Becchi, Carlo (2009 Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathemati- Curll, Lisa (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation cal Physics), 638 Award), 1457 Berman, John (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845; Cutkosky, Ashok (Siemens Competition Prize), 396 (2009 International Mathematical Olympiad), 1304 Cvitanovic´, Predrag (2009 Humboldt Foundation Award), Bernstein, Sergei (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845 741 Bertozzi, Andrea (2009 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Dafermos, Mihalis (2009 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1120 Lecturer), 1119 Daverman, Robert J. (AAAS Fellow), 505 Biegalle, Neil (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presenta- DeBenedictis, Erika (Siemens Competition Prize), 396 tion Award), 1457 Deift, Percy (National Academy of Sciences Elections), 844 Blasiak, Jonah (2009 Clay Liftoff Fellow), 1458 Demeter, Ciprian (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Bloch, Spencer J. (2009 American Academy of Arts and Deshpande, Sameer K. (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Sciences Elections), 844 Deutsch, David E. (Royal Society of London Election), 270 Blomer, Valentin (2009 CRM André-Aisenstadt Mathemat- Dobi, Doris (2009 AWM Honorable Mention), 636; (2009 ics Prize), 740 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship), 739; (NDSEG Fel- Blower, Sally (2009 Guggenheim Fellow), 741 lowship), 1457 Boas, Harold (Chauvenet Prize), 634 Dobson, Edward T. (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholar- Borkowski, John J. Jr. (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Schol- ship), 741 arship), 741 Donaldson, Simon K. (2009 Shaw Prize), 952 Boseman, Adam (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Pre- Drösser, Christoph (2008 DMV Media Prize), 269 sentation Award), 1457 Drusvyatskiy, Dmitriy (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Bozeman, Sylvia T. (2008 AAAS Mentor Award), 637 Drutu, Cornelia (2009 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1120 Braverman, Mark (2009 CMS Doctoral Prize), 1121 Dubédat, Julien (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Brenton, Lawrence (2009 MAA George Pólya Award), 1303 DuBois, Christopher (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Brezzi, Franco (2009 SIAM John von Neumann Lecturer), Durrett, Richard (AAAS Fellow), 505 1119 E, Weinan (2009 SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize), 1119 Bringmann, Kathrin (Krupp Prize), 1119 Eliot, Thomas (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presenta- Bronsard, Lia (2010 CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize), 740 tion Award), 1457 Brosnan, Patrick (2009 CMS Coxeter-James Prize), 740 Elmachtoub, Adam (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Brousseau, Guy (ICMI Felix Klein Medal), 1304 Epstein, Inessa (2008 ASL Sacks Prizes), 638 Browning, Tim (2009 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize), 739 Faltings, Gerd (von Staudt Prize), 57 Brunner, Hermann (2008 CMS David Borwein Distin- Fan, Jianqing (2009 Guggenheim Fellow), 741 guished Career Award), 1121 Fan, Yale Wang (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Burban, Igor (ICRA Awards), 57 Fefferman, Robert A. (2009 American Academy of Arts Caffarelli, Luis (2009 Steele Prize), 48 and Sciences Elections), 844 Calegari, Danny (2009 Clay Research Awards), 739 Firoiu, Vlad (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845 Calegari, Franceso (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Fokas, A. S. (2009 Guggenheim Fellow), 741 Camacho, Martin A. (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Franklin, Anthony M. (2008 Ford Foundation Diversity Cao, Wenyu (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845; Fellowship), 969 (2009 International Mathematical Olympiad), 1304 Frederickson, Greg N. (2009 MAA George Pólya Award), Car, Roberto (2009 Dirac Medal), 1302 1303 Chan, Jeffrey (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Fuelberth, John (MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service), Chang, Sun-Yung Alice (National Academy of Sciences 635 Elections), 844 Gabai, David (2009 Clay Research Awards), 739 Cheng, Robin (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845 Gamburg, Alexander (2007 PECASE Award), 504 Chipman, Hugh (2009 CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics), 740 Garcia, Sonia M. (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholar- Chuang, Joseph (2009 LMS Berwick Prize), 1120 ship), 741 Cortes, Corinna (ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Gentry, Sommer (2009 MAA Henry L. Alder Award for Award), 845 Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or Uni- Corvino, Justin J. (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholar- versity Mathematics Faculty Member), 1303 ship), 741 Goebel, Rafal (2009 SIAM Activity Group on Control and Coskun, Izzet (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Systems Theory Prize), 1119 Cowen, Carl C. (MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service), Goldfeld, Dorin (2008 American Academy of Arts and Sci- 635 ences Elections), 844 Craig, Walter (AAAS Fellow), 505 Golubitsky, Martin (2009 SIAM Jürgen Moser Lectureship), Crowdy, Darren (2009 CMFT Young Researcher Award), 1119 969 Gomes, Harold L. (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Pre- Crump, Ashley (2009 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow- sentation Award), 1457 ship), 1304 Gordina, Maria (Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize), 637 Csicsery, George (2009 JPBM Communications Award), 630 Granville, Andrew (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303 Cui, Wenhan (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Gray, Jeremy J. (2009 Whiteman Prize), 498
DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1513 2009 Index
Guionnet, Alice (2009 Loève Prize), 1302 Lindquist, Anders (2009 SIAM W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize Guo, Hong (2009 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Math- in Mathematics), 1119 ematical Physics), 741 Lindsey, Kathryn (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Guyer, Richard A. (2009 MAA Trevor Evans Award), 1303 Lipshitz, Robert (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Haber, Nicholas (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Lo, Andrew W. (2009 SIAM I. E. Block Community Lecturer), Hacon, Christopher (2009 Cole Prize in Algebra), 494 1119 Hamilton, Richard (2009 Steele Prize), 488 Loh, Po-Ling (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Handwerk, Agnes (2008 DMV Media Prize), 269 Lospinoso, Joshua A. (Rhodes Scholarship), 396 Hansen, Lars Peter (2008 CME/MSRI Prize), 56 Lutz, Jason (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presenta- Hayahi, Nakao (Analysis Prize of the MSJ), 395 tion Award), 1457 Heath-Brown, Roger (2009 LMS Pólya Prize), 1120 Lyubich, Mikhail (2010 CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize), 740 Hofstadter, Douglas R. (2009 American Academy of Arts Macdonald, I. G. (2009 Steele Prize), 488 and Sciences Elections), 844 Madigan, Conor F. (2009 Computer-Aided Verification Holmer, Justin A. (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Prize), 1456 Hopcroft, John E. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Maini, Philip (2009 LMS Naylor Prize and Lectureship in tions), 844 Applied Mathematics), 1120 Howes, Russell (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Malik, Sharad (2009 Computer-Aided Verification Prize), Huang, Duanni (Tony) (Siemens Competition Prize), 396 1456 Hughes, Thomas J. R. (National Academy of Sciences Elec- Margalit, Dan (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 tions), 844 Marian, Alina (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Ikeda, Masaki (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presenta- Marques-Silva, Joao P. (2009 Computer-Aided Verification tion Award), 1457 Prize), 1456 Jakobson, Dmitry (2009 CMS G. de B. Robinson Award), Marsh, Robert (2009 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1120 Maz’ya, Vladimir (2009 LMS Senior Whitehead Prize), 1120 1121 McKernan, James (2009 Cole Prize in Algebra), 494 Jordan, Jennifer (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Pre- McLoud-Mann, Jennifer (2009 MAA Henry L. Alder Award sentation Award), 1457 for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or Kalman, Dan (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303 University Mathematics Faculty Member), 1303 Kao, Chiu-Yen (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Megginson, Robert (Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Kay, Alan (AAAS Fellow), 505 Service), 633 Keating, Jonathan P. (Royal Society of London Elections), Meng, Delong (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845; 970 (2009 International Mathematical Olympiad), 1304 Kelly, Frank P. (2008 John von Neumann Theory Prize), 740 Metsky, Hayden C. (Siemens Competition Prize), 396 Kessar, Radha (2009 LMS Berwick Prize), 1120 Michel, John R. (MAA Certificate of Meritorious Service), Khosravi, Mehrdad (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303 635 Kisin, Mark (Royal Society of London Election), 270 Miermont, Gregory (2009 Rollo Davidson Prize), 740 Klartag, Bo’az (2008 Salem Prize), 505 Mirzakhani, Maryam (2009 Blumenthal Award), 504 Klawe, Maria (2009 American Academy of Arts and Sci- Monks, Maria (2009 AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excel- ences Elections), 844 lence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman), 636 Kobayashi, Toshiyuki (2008 Humboldt Foundation Award), Montalbán, Antonio (2009–2010 AMS Centennial Fellow- 741 ship), 738 Koditschek, Daniel E. (AAAS Fellow), 505 Moody’s Mega Math Challenge Winners Announced, 845 Kolinski, John (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Morgan, John W. (2009 Conant Prize), 500; (National Acad- Korchmáros, Gábor ( 2008 ICA Euler Medal), 969 emy of Sciences Elections), 844 Kozen, Dexter (AAAS Fellow), 505 Mori, Yoichiro (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Ksir, Amy (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303; (2009 Moskewicz, Matthew W. (2009 Computer-Aided Verifica- MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize), 1303 tion Prize), 1456 Kutzko, Philip (Presidential Award for Excellence in Sci- Mueller-Gronbach, Thomas (2009 Information-Based Com- ence, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring), 1303 plexity Prize), 844 Lam, Thomas (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Mumford, David (Royal Society of London Election), 270 Larsen, Nicole (2009 AWM Honorable Mention), 636 Nadirashvili, Nikolai (2009 CMS G. de B. Robinson Award), Larson, Eric (Siemens Competition Prize), 396; (2009 USA 1121 Mathematical Olympiad), 845; (2009 International Math- Nagel, Alexander (AAAS Fellow), 505 ematical Olympiad), 1304 Naor, Assaf (2008 Packard Fellowship), 396; (2008 Salem Lawrence, Brian R. (Putnam Prize), 742 Prize), 505 Lee, Seok Hyeong (Putnam Prize), 742 Nordbotten, Jan M. (2009 SIAG/Geosciences Junior Scien- Levine, Mark (2009 Humboldt Foundation Award), 741 tist Prize), 1119 Li, Ping (2009 ONR Young Investigator Award), 739 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, 738 Lie, Victor (2009 Clay Liftoff Fellow), 1458 Oden, J. Tinsley (2009 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service Lim, Raphael-Joel (Siemens Competition Prize), 396 to the Profession), 1119
1514 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11 2009 Index
O’Dorney, Evan (2009 International Mathematical Olym- Sinai, Yakov (Royal Society of London Elections), 970 piad), 1304 Sipser, Michael (2009 American Academy of Arts and Sci- Oguiso, Keiji (Algebra Prize of the MSJ), 1456 ences Elections), 844 Oppermann, Steffen (ICRA Awards), 57 Sklyanin, Evgeny K. (Royal Society of London Election), 270 Osher, Stanley J. (2009 American Academy of Arts and Smoller, Joel (2009 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize), 492 Sciences Elections), 844 Snelson, Stanley (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Owen, Markus (2009 LMS Whitehead Prize), 1120 Snowden, Andrew (2009 Clay Liftoff Fellow), 1458 Ozawa, Masanao (Autumn Prize of the MSJ), 395 Song, Jian (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Ozawa, Narutaka (Operator Algebra Prize), 269; (Spring Spears, Ely (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Prize of the MSJ), 1456 Srinivas, Vasudevan (TWAS Prize in Mathematics), 268 Pan, Qinxuan (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845; Stevens, Kerry (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 (2009 International Mathematical Olympiad), 1304 Stoffregen, Matthew H. (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Papadimitriou, Christos C. (National Academy of Sciences Stojanoska, Vesna (2009 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), Elections), 844 1303 Parrinello, Michele (2009 Dirac Medal), 1302 Stone, David R. (Certificate of Meritorious Service), 635 Pasupat, Panupong (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), Stone, Howard A. (National Academy of Engineering Elec- 845 tions, 638 Payne, Michael C. (Royal Society of London Election), 270 Stora, Raymond (2009 Dannie Heineman Prize in Math- Pengelley, David (Haimo Award for Teaching), 633 ematical Physics), 638 Peterson, Jesse (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Stoyanov, Latchezar (Nedeltchev) (2009 B. H. Neumann Phan, Toan (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845 Award), 1458 Pixton, Aaron (2009 Morgan Prize), 502; (NDSEG Fellow- Stoyanova, Elena (2009 B. H. Neumann Award), 1458 ship), 1457 Stoytchev, Orlin (2009 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), Polterovich, Iosif (2009 CMS G. de B. Robinson Award), 1303 1121 Strang, Gilbert (National Academy of Sciences Elections), Poole, David (2009 CMS Excellence in Teaching Award), 844 1121 Strassen, Volker (2008 ACM Knuth Prize), 268 Pujals, Enrique R. (2008 ICTP/IMU Ramanujan Prize), 268 Strikman, Mark (2009 Humboldt Foundation Award), 741 Raghavan, Dilip (2008 ASL Sacks Prizes), 638 Suzuki, Jeff (2009 MAA Carl B. Allendoerfer Award), 1303 Reingold, Omer (ACM Gödel Prize), 967 Takase, Masahito (Publication Prize of the MSJ), 1456 Roberts, Siobhan (Euler Book Prize), 635 Tamura, Hideo (Analysis Prize of the MSJ), 396 Rouet, Alain (2009 Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathemati- Tao, Terence (2009 American Academy of Arts and Sci- cal Physics), 638 ences Elections), 844 Rouquier, Raphaël (2009 Adams Prize), 844 Taubes, Clifford H. (2009 Shaw Prize), 952 Rubinstein, Jacob (AAAS Fellow), 505 Taylor, Michael D. (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303 Rush, David (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845 Tillmann, Ulrike L. (Royal Society of London Election), 270 Saaty, Thomas L. (INFORMS Award), 269 Totaro, Burt J. (Royal Society of London Elections), 970 Saint-Raymond, Laure (2009 Satter Prize), 496 Traves, Will (2009 MAA Lester R. Ford Award), 1303; (2009 Sakallah, Karem A. (2009 Computer-Aided Verification MAA Merten M. Hasse Prize), 1303 Prize), 1456 Triffo, Andrei (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Sam, Steven (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Tripathy, Arnav (Putnam Prize), 742 Sands, Bill (2008 CMS Graham Wright Award for Distin- Tripuraneni, Nilesh (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 guished Service), 1121 Tymoczko, Julianna (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Sargsyan, Grigor (2009 Emil Artin Prize), 1120; (2009 Clay Tyutin, Igor (2009 Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathemati- Liftoff Fellow), 1458 cal Physics), 638 Sarkar, Sucharit (2009 Clay Research Fellowship), 637 Uhlmann, Gunther (2009 American Academy of Arts and Sato, Ken-iti (Analysis Prize of the MSJ), 395 Sciences Elections), 844 Scheel, Arnd (2009 SIAM J. D. Crawford Prize), 1119 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2009 Exemplary Program Schlag, Wilhelm (2009 Guggenheim Fellow), 741 Award), 632 Schwartz, Randy K. (2009 MAA Trevor Evans Award), 1303 Vadhan, Salil (ACM Gödel Prize), 967 Scott, Dana (2009 Gold Medal of the Sobolev Institute), 741 Vafa, Cumrun (National Academy of Sciences Elections), Sela, Zlil (2008 ASL Karp Prize) 638 844 Sellers, Sarah L. (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Vanden-Eijnden, Eric (SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize), Sengupta, Sohini (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 1119 Shafarevich, Igor (2009 Gold Medal of the Sobolev Insti- Vapnik, Vladimir (ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Prac- tute), 741 tice Award), 845 Shen, Jie (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholarship), 741 Varma, Ila (2009 AWM Honorable Mention), 636 Siadat, Vali (Haimo Award for Teaching), 633 Vekhter, Joshua (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 Silvestre, Luis E. (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Velez, William Y. (AAAS Fellow), 505 Sims, Katrina (2009 B. H. Neumann Award), 1458 Venkatesh, Akshay (2008 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize), 56
DECEMBER 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1515 2009 Index
Verducci, Joseph S. (2008–2009 Fulbright Foreign Scholar- (The) Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Educa- ship), 741 tion for the Twenty-First Century (Reviewed by David Viray, Bianca (2009 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow- Manderscheid), 611 ship), 1304 Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Voroninski, Vladislav (NDSEG Fellowship), 1457 Diversions (Reviewed by David Austin), 237 Vybiral, Jan (2008 Information-Based Complexity Young Mathematics and the Aesthetic (Reviewed by Annalisa Researcher Award), 269 Crannell), 233 Waldspurger, Jean-Loup (2009 Clay Research Awards), 739 Mathematics and Common Sense: A Case of Creative Ten- Walker, Judy (2009 MAA George Pólya Lectureship), 1303 sion (Reviewed by Chelluri C. A. Sastri), 726 (see also Watson, Sean (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presenta- “Corrections”, August 2009, p. 852) tion Award), 1457 (The) Millenium Prize Problems (Reviewed by Robert C. Wheeler, Mary F. (2009 SIAM Theodore von Kármán Prize), 1120; (2009 SIAG/Geosciences Career Prize), 1120 Gunning), 1438 Wickelgren, Kirsten Graham (2009 AIM Five-Year Fellow- (The) Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Math- ship), 637 ematics (Reviewed by Brent Deschamp), 380 Wigderson, Avi (ACM Gödel Prize), 967 (The) Numerati (Reviewed by Jeffrey Shallit), 1109 Wilking, Burkhard (2009 Leibniz Prize), 395 Out of the Labyrinth (Reviewed by Jesse Johnson), 723 Williams, Lauren K. (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Reviewed by Williams, Ruth J. (2009 American Academy of Arts and Bryan Birch, Simon Donaldson, Gil Kalai, Richard Ken- Sciences Elections), 844 yon, Angus Macintyre), 1276 Wong, Wing H. (National Academy of Sciences Elections), Pythagorean Crimes (Reviewed by Alex Kasman), 27 844 Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (Re- Wood, Melanie Matchett (2009 AIM Five-Year Fellowship), viewed by J. M. Coetzee), 944 637; (2009 Clay Liftoff Fellow), 1458 Wright, Moriah (2009 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presen- Surveys tation Award), 1457 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Yang, David (2009 USA Mathematical Olympiad), 845 Report), 257 Yermakova, Anna (Rhodes Scholarship), 396 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Yin, Wotao (2009 Sloan Research Fellowship), 738 Report, Part II), 388 Yukie, Akihiko (Algebra Prize of the MSJ), 1457 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the Yurko, Michael C. (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 United States (Second Report), 828 Zhan, Bohua (Putnam Prize), 742 Zhang, Alicia (2009 AMS Menger Award), 968 2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences in the Zhang, Lintao (2009 Computer-Aided Verification Prize), United States (Third Report), 1289 1456 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2007–2008, 281 Zhang, Mark (Siemens Competition Prize), 396 Doctoral Degrees Conferred 2007–2008, Supplementary Zhang, Shou-wu (2009 Guggenheim Fellow), 741 List, 840 Zhao, Ying (2009 Computer-Aided Verification Prize), 1456 Statistics on Women Mathematicians Compiled by the Zhao, Yufei (Putnam Prize), 742 AMS, 1144 Zhu, Xinwen (2009 Clay Liftoff Fellow), 1458 Zirnbauer, Martin R. (2009 Leibniz Prize), 395 Tables of Contents 3, 203, 339, 443, 555, 683, 795, 907, 1067, 1227, 1403 Reciprocity Agreements, 1346 WHAT IS… Reference and Book List WHAT IS…the Complex Dual to the Real Sphere? (Simon 65, 276, 403, 510, 641, 749, 853, 976, 112, 1312, 1463 Gindikin), 942 Reviews WHAT IS…an Elliptic Genus? (Serge Ochanine), 720 WHAT IS…a Legendrian Knot? (Joshua M. Sabloff), 1282 (The) Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny WHAT IS…Lehmer’s Number (Eriko Hironaka), 374 (Reviewed by Hector Sussmann), 376 WHAT IS…Measure Rigidity? (Manfred Einsiedler), 600 (The) Calculus Wars (Reviewed by Brian E. Blank), 602 WHAT IS…the Parity Phenomenon? (John Friedlander and (The) Cat in Numberland (Reviewed by James Propp), 31 Doting on Date: Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Num- Henryk Iwaniec), 817 bers Is the New Way to Be Smart (Reviewed by Rebecca WHAT IS…a Rota-Baxter Algebra? (Li Guo), 1436 Goldin), 483 WHAT IS…the Schwarzian Derivative? (Valentin Ovsienko Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra (Reviewed and Sergei Tabachnikov), 34 by Benno Artmann), 1105 WHAT IS…a Skein Module? (W. B. Raymond Lickorish), 240 Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life and Work (Reviewed WHAT IS…Stanley Depth? (M. R. Pournaki, S. A. Seyed by Gregory H. Moore), 823 Fakhari, M. Tousi, S. Yassemi), 1106
1516 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 11