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Dynamical Algebraic : Promotion, Rowmotion, and Resonance page 543 The Open of Crystallization page 551

Topological Phase Transitions ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) and Topological Phases of Matter page 557 Denton Meeting 2017 Notices Issue Index page 646 Buffalo Meeting of the Americanpage 652 Mathematical Society October 2017 Orlando Meeting Volume 64, Number 9 page 657

The Rigidity of Frameworks: Theory and Applications page 973 Search for specifi c content that appeared in the 2017 Notices. Dido’s Problem and Its Impact on Modern Mathematics page 980 San Diego Meeting—JMM 2018 page 1067

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AMS Prize Announcements page 311 readers with a quick snapshot of the main articles featured in each specifi c Notices issue . Spring Sectional Sampler

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AWM Research Symposium 2017 Lecture Sampler page 341

Mathematics and Statistics Part II: Societal Record, is organized alphabetically under each category heading . This Part Awareness Month page 362 provides readers with a searchable listing of all content of record for the Society, including: elections, awards, meetings, news, opportunities, annual AMS reports, surveys, grants,

About the Cover: How Minimal Surfaces Converge to a Foliation (see page 307) fellowships, etc . Issue at-a-Glance

January 2017 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS Volume 64, Issue I • pages 1–96 Ablow, Clarence M .; Anastasio, Salvatore; Brungs, Hans Heinrich; Cooper, Mark Alan; Craig, William; Enneking, Marj; Helmke, FEATURES Uwe R .; Huber-Dyson, Verena; Jakobsen, James F .; Kronheimer, E . H .; Moore, John C .; Pedersen, Jean J .; Reid, William H ., Satake, Hodge Theory of (Karim Adiprasito, , Eric Katz) Ichiro; Sexauer, Norman E .; Shapley, Lloyd S .; Silverman, Robert; ...... 26 Sinke, Carl J .; Smedinghoff, Scott ...... 62 JMM 2017 Lecture Sampler (Barry Simon, Alice Silverberg, Pelczynski, Aleksander (Olek) (1932–2012) ...... 54 Lisa Jeffrey, Gigliola Staffilani, Anna Wienhard, Donald St . P . Richards, Tobias Holck Colding, Wilfrid Gangbo, Ingrid February 2017 Daubechies) ...... 8 Volume 64, Issue 2 • pages 97–192 COMMUNICATIONS 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the FEATURES Advancement of Science (Andy Magid) ...... 73 (A) Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing (Henry Cohn) 102 Aleksander (Olek) Pelczynski (1932–2012) (Edited by Joe Diestel) (The) Partitionability Conjecture (Art M . Duval, Caroline J . Klivans, and Jeremy L . Martin) ...... 117 ...... 54 AMS Waldemar J . Trjitzinsky Awards Program Celebrates COMMUNICATIONS Its Twenty-Fifty Year (Allyn Jackson, AMS Trjitzinsky Fund Mathematical Expression of a Global Environmental Catastrophe announcement) ...... 44 (Daniel H . Rothman) ...... 138 My Year as an AMS Congressional Fellow (Anthony J . Macula) 40 Report on Bridges 2016—In Memory of Our Founder, Reza Sarhangi (1952–2016) (Carlo H . Séquin) ...... 152 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION What Does Active Learning Mean For Mathematicians? (Benjamin Blog ...... 38 Braun, Priscilla Bremser, Art M . Duval, Elise Lockwood, Diana Interview with Arthur Benjamin (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ...... 32 White) ...... 124 WHAT IS…a Complex Symmetric Operator? (Stephan Ramon GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION Garcia, communicated by Steven J . Miller and Cesar E . Silva) . 35 Blog ...... 135 REVIEWS Interview with Thomas Grandine (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) . . . . . 130 Origins of Mathematical Words (Andrew I . Dale) ...... 47 WHAT IS…Benford’s Law? (Arno Berger, Theodore P . Hill, Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 132 FROM THE EDITORS DOCEAMUS Diversity in Mathematics ...... 4 (The) Fulbright Specialist Program (Noureen A . Khan) ...... 158 BOOKSHELF ...... 50 THE BACK PAGE ...... 96

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REVIEWS April 2017 (The) Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects (Brian Hayes) . . Volume 64, Issue 4 • pages 305–432 ...... 163 BOOKSHELF ...... 162 FEATURES THE BACK PAGE ...... 192 2017 AWM Lecture Sampler (Ruth Charney, Kristen Lauter, Svitlana Mayboroda, Linda Petzold, Ami Radunskaya) . . . . . 341 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS AMS Spring Sectional Sampler (Michael Hitrick, Sarah C . Koch, Gauchman, Hillel (1937–2016) ...... 150 Andrew Raich, Daniel Rogalski) ...... 333 March 2017 (A) New Golden Age of Minimal Surfaces (Joaquín Pérez) . . 3. 47 Volume 64, Issue 4 • pages 193–304 COMMUNICATIONS IMAGINARY—a How-to Guide for Math Exhibitions (Andreas FEATURES Daniel Matt) ...... 368 Ad Honorem Sir Andrew J . Wiles, An Introduction (Christopher Strengthening Doctoral Programs in Mathematics Education: A Skinner) ...... 197 Continuous Process (Barbara Reys, Robert Reys) ...... 386 Andrew Wiles's Marvelous Proof (Henri Darmon) ...... 209 (The) World War II Origins of Mathematics Awareness (Michael J . Interview with Abel Laureate Sir Andrew J . Wiles (Martin Raussen, Barany) ...... 363 Christian Skau) ...... 198 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION (The) Mathematical Works of Andrew Wiles (Christopher Blog ...... 431. Skinner, with contributions from Karl Rubin, Barry Mazur, Mirela Interview with (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ...... Çiperiani, Chandrashekhar Kahre, Jack Thorne) ...... 217 Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research COMMUNICATIONS Symposium (USTARS) ...... 383. 100 Years Ago: Joan Clarke (Allyn Jackson, Ralph Erskine, I J. . WHAT IS…Tropical Geometry? (Eric Katz, Communicated by (Jack) Good, Eric A . Weiss) ...... 252 Cesar E . Silva) ...... Commutative Algebra Provides a Big Surprise for Craig Huneke's ...... 380 Birthday (Irena Swanson, Communicated by Tom Garrity) . . 256. OPINION Interview with New AMS President Kenneth A . Ribet (Allyn (A) Great Time to Be a Statistician (Ronald L . Wasserstein) . . .377 Jackson) ...... 22. 9 (A) National Mathematics Festival and a Movement (David Math in Brazil: Sowing the Seeds (Marcelo Viana) ...... 234 Eisenbud and Kirsten Bohl) ...... 375 Math PhD Careers: New Opportunities Emerging Amidst Crisis BOOKSHELF ...... 407 (Yuliy Baryshnikov, Lee DeVille, Richard Laugesen) . . . . . 260 ABOUT THE COVER ...... 307 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION THE BACK PAGE ...... 432 Interview with Ryan Haskett (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) . . . . . 239 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS WHAT IS…an Elliptic Curve? (Harris B . Daniels, Álvaro Lozano-

Robledo, Communicated by Steven J . Miller and Cesar E . Silva) . . Fuglister, Frederick J ...... 399 241 May 2017 OPINION Volume 64, Issue 5 • pages 433–536 (The) Common Vision Project: Four Reactions (William Yslas Vélez, Amy Cohen, Priscilla Bremser, Douglas Mupasiri, FEATURES Communicated by Harriet Pollatsek) ...... 24. 5 AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Sampler (Fernanado Codá Marques, REVIEWS James Maynard, Kavita Ramanan) ...... 4. 37 (A) Doubter’s Almanac (Sheldon Axler) ...... 26. 5 MCA Invited Speakers Lecture Sampler (Andrew Granville ,Yuval THE BACK PAGE ...... 304. Peres) ...... 443 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS COMMUNICATIONS W . Wistar Comfort (1933–2016) (Martha Wistar Comfort) . . .275 2017 Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics and Fundamental Physics Awarded ...... 498 Robert Seeley (1932–2016) (Ethan Bolker) ...... 276

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Big is Beautiful: Illinois Wins Exemplary Program Award (Allyn BOOKSHELF ...... 642 Jackson) ...... 481 COMMENTARY CeMEAI: The Brazilian Center and Its Mathematics Research for Industry (E . G . Birgin, J . A . Cuminato, J . M . Martínez, T . Pereira) . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ...... 450 Survey on Math Post-docs (Amy Cohen) ...... 5. 41 Fefferman and Schoen Awarded 2017 Wolf Prize in Mathematics Women's History Month: Don't Put a Man on the Cover (Autumn ...... 496 Kent) ...... 540. (The) Mathematics Genealogy Project Comes of Age at Twenty- THE BACK PAGE ...... 672 one (Colm Mulcahy, Communicated by Steven J . Miller) . . 466 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION Cho, Choong Yun; Davis, Ruth M ;. Enneking, Marj; Gackstatter, Interview with Reinhard Laubenbacher (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) . . . Fritz; Gauchman, Hillel; Huber-Dyson, Verena; Karle, Jerome; ...... 456 Marcus, Solomon A .; McCartin, Brian J .; Myung, Hyo Chul; Newell, David C .; Philip, A . G . Davis; Shapley, Lloyd S ., Sheffield, WHAT IS…a Virtual Knot? (Daniel S . Silver, Susan G . Williams, Roy D ,. Shenk, Al; Silverman, Robert; Wisner, Robert J . . . . 6. 27 Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 461 Ludvig Faddeev (1934–2017) ...... 604 OPINION Can Mathematics Light the Way? (Allyn Jackson) ...... 448 August 2017 REVIEWS Volume 64, Issue 7 • pages 673–808 Math Graphics: A Review of Two Books (Judith Roitman) . . . 504 FEATURES BOOKSHELF ...... 508 (The) Mathematics of Gravitational Waves . A Two-Part Feature THE BACK PAGE ...... 536 ...... 684 Introduction (Christina Sormani) ...... 685 June/July 2017 Part One: How the Green Light Was Given for Gravitational Volume 64, Issue 6 • pages 537–672 Wave Search (C . Denson Hill, Paweł Nurowski ...... 686 FEATURES Part Two: Gravitational Waves and Their Mathematics (Lydia Bieri, David Garfinkle, and Nicolás Yunes ...... 693 Dynamical Algebraic Combinatorics: Promotion, Rowmotion, and Resonance (Jessica Striker) COMMUNICATIONS (Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 543 Ellenberg in Move Gifted (Allyn Jackson) ...... 779. (The) Open Mathematics of Crystallization (Charles Radin) . . .551 (The) Global Math Project: Uplifting Mathematics for All (James Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016: Tanton, Brianna Donaldson) ...... 712 Topological Phase Transitions and Topological Phases of Michèle Audin, Mathematician and Writer (Allyn Jackson) . . . 761 Matter (Compiled by the Class for Physics of the Royal Swedish (The) Travel Ban: Affected Mathematicians Tell Their Stories Academy of Sciences) ...... 557 (Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Allyn Jackson, and Stephen Kennedy) . . COMMUNICATIONS ...... 678 (The) “Wide Influence” of Leonard Eugene Dickson (Della (A) Conversation with Mu-Fa Chen ...... 61. 6 Dumbaugh, Amy Shell-Gellasch) ...... 772 (A) Vision for CBMS ...... 590 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION Joseph B . Keller (1923–2016) ...... 606 Interview with Karen E . Smith (Laure Flapan, Communicated by ...... 592 Yves Meyer Awarded Abel Prize Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ...... 718 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION WHAT IS…a CR Submanifold? (Phillip S . Harrington, Andrew Blog ...... 582 Raich, Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 722 Interview with Lucas Sabalka (Melinda Lanius) ...... 576 OPINION WHAT IS…a Generalised Mean-Curvature Flow? (Hui Yu, International Mobility and US Mathematics (Moon Duchin) . . 682 Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 580 Post-Quantum Cryptography—A New Opportunity and Challenge DOCEAMUS for the Mathematics Community (Jintai Ding, Daniel Smith- Tone) ...... 709 What Is Inquiry-Based Learning? ...... 570 REVIEWS FILM REVIEW Gifted (Frank Morgan) ...... 7. 16 Hidden Figures (Fern Y . Hunt) ...... 620

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One Hundred Twenty-One Days (John McCleary) ...... 758 COMMENTARY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BOOKSHELF ...... 778 Hayman's List (Eleanor Lingham) ...... 814 COMMENTARY In Support of Piper Harron (Nancy C . Wrinkle) ...... 814 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I Never Met Maryam Mirzakhani, but I Knew Her So Well (Mariel (The) Daughters of John Adams (Timothy Chow) ...... 676 Vazquez) ...... 813 Online Survey of Publishing Issues (Mark C . Wilson) ...... 676 ERRATUM ...... 815 THE BACK PAGE ...... 808. THE BACK PAGE ...... 968. DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS THE AMS Komaravolu S . Chandrasekharan (1920–2017) ...... 77. 1 FROM THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE September 2017 2017 American Mathematical Society Elections Volume 64, Issue 8 • pages 809–968 Table of Contents ...... 837 FEATURES List of Candidates ...... 838 AMS Fall Sectional Sampler (Christine Heitsch, Jonathan R . Election Information ...... 838 Kujawa, Govind Menon, Kevin M . Pilgrim, Bruce Sagan) . . . 816 Proposed Amendments to the Bylaws ...... 840 Two Optimization Problems in Thermal Insulation (Dorin Bucur, Nominations for President ...... 842 Giuseppe Buttazzo, Carlo Nitsch ...... 830 Biographies of Candidates 2017 ...... 845 COMMUNICATIONS Current Bylaws ...... 860 Kollár and Voisin Awarded Shaw Prize ...... 922 Call for Suggestions ...... 865 Mary Fairfax Somerville, Queen of Science (Elisabetta Strickland) ...... 929 Nominations by Petition ...... 866 Mathematics Applied to the Study of Bicycles (Jim Papadopoulous) ...... 888 October 2017 Volume 64, Issue 8 • pages 969–1128 My Life (Dusa McDuff) ...... 892 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION FEATURES Making Matrices Better: Geometry and Topology of Singular Value Dido's Problem and Its Impact on Modern Mathematics and Polar Decomposition (Dennis DeTurck, Amora Elsaify, (Catherine Bandle) ...... 980 Herman Gluck, Benjamin Grossmann, Joseph Ansel Hoisington, Anusha M . Krishnan, Jianru Zhang) ...... 8. 76 (The) Rigidity of Frameworks: Theory and Applications (Jessica Sidman, Audrey St . John) ...... 973 Blog ...... Interview with Kelsey Houston-Edwards (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) . . COMMUNICATIONS 870 Euphemia Lofton Haynes: Bringing Eduction Closer to the “Goal of WHAT IS…a Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomial? (Francisco Marcel- Perfection” (Susan E . Kelly, Carly Shinners, Katherine Zoroufy) . . lán, Juan J . Moreno-Balcázar, Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 995 873 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION OPINION Gerrymandering, Sandwiches, and Topology (Pablo Soberón, Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 1010 Advocating for Diversity and Inclusion in Faculty Hiring (Darryl Yong, Sumun Pendakur) ...... 897 Blog ...... Beating the Lecture-Textbook Trap with Active Learning and Interview with Evelyn Lamb (Alexander Diaz-Lopez) . . . . . 1005 Rewards for All (David Pengelley) ...... 903 WHAT IS…Perimeter? (Editors) ...... 1009 REVIEWS OPINION Weapons of Math Destruction (Mary Poovey) ...... 933 Ensuring That Mathematics is Relevant in a World of Data Science (Johanna S . Hardin, Nicholas J . Horton (Communicated by ...... 936 BOOKSHELF Benjaion Braun) ...... 986 ABOUT THE COVER ...... 811 (A) Formula Goes to Court: Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap (Mira Bernstein, Moon Duchin) ...... 1020

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Flexibility in the Mathematics Major Would Benefit Students and COMMENTARY Society (William Yslas Vélez) ...... 992 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR REVIEWS Make March 20th Hypatia Day (Ari Belenkiy) ...... 1134 (The) Mathematician's Shiva (Dennis DeTurck) ...... 1043 More to Internationalism than Migration (Michael J . Barany) . 1133 BOOKSHELF ...... 1046 Presidential Nomination by Petition? (Joe Auslander) . . . . .1133 THE BACK PAGE ...... 1047 Travel Bank, Lincoln, and Beethoven (Lyla Fadali) ...... 1133 THE AMS We Don't Need “so-called” (Jim Stasheff) ...... 1134. JMM 2017 Photo Key and Montage ...... 359, 360 THE BACK PAGE ...... 1196. JMM 2018 Employment Center ...... 1041 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS JMM 2018 Program Announcements ...... 1067 Apostol, Tom M ;. Barth, Karl F .; Collins, Heron S ;. Douglas, Jim Jr ;. JMM 2018 City Map ...... 1096 Feferman, Solomon; Gani, Joseph M .; Golomb, Solomon W .; Graves, JMM 2018 Meeting Registration Forms ...... 1127, 1128 William H .; Kalman, Rudolf; Kenney, Margaret J ;. Mimica, Ante; Neveu, Jacques; Otermat, Scott C .; Otway, Thomas H .; Reade, JMM 2018 Program at a Glance ...... 1113 Maxwell O .; Reid, Walter M .; Robinson, Ivor; Rogers, James T . Jr ;. Shaw, Ronald; Stallmann, F . W ;. Suarez, Pablo Ulises; van Tuyl, November 2017 Andrew H .; van Vilet, Carolyne M . Volume 64, Issue 10 • pages 1129–1248 Solomon Marcus (1925–2016) (Alexandra Bellow) ...... 1216

FEATURES December 2017 AMS Fall Western Sectional Sampler (Paul Balmer, Pavel Etingof, Volume 64, Issue 10 • pages 1249–1376 Monica Vazirani) ...... 1142 Antibiotics Time Machines Are Hard to Build (Ngoc M . Tran, Jed FEATURES Yang, Communicated by Cesar E . Silva) ...... 1136 Ad Honorem Charles Fefferman (Communicated by Stephen COMMUNICATIONS Kennedy, Steven J . Miller) ...... 1254 (An) Old Problem Resurfaces Nonlocally: Gamow's Liquid Drops (The) Concept of Varifold (Ulrich Menne) ...... 1148. Inspire Today's Research and Applications (Rustum Choksi, (A) Glimpse into Discrete Differential Geometry (Keenan Crane, Cyrill B . Muratov, Ihsan Topaloglu) ...... 1275 Max Wardetzky, Communicated by Joel Hass) ...... 1153 Marcel Berger Remembered (Claude LeBrun, Editor and Immigration, Freedom, and the History of the Institute for Translator) ...... 1285 Advanced Study (Fadi Bardawil, Thomas Dodman, Ian Jauslin, Pascal Marichalar, Klaus Oschema, Peter Redfield, COMMUNICATIONS Communicated by Harriet Pollatsek) ...... 1160. Autobiography of Wentsun Wu (1919–2017) ...... 1319. GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION Dorothea Rockburne and Max Dehn at Black Mountain College Blog ...... 1174 (David Peifer) ...... 1313 Interview with Lillian Pierce (Laure Flapan, Communicated by Reducing Bias in Faculty Searches (Elizabeth A . Burroughs) . 1304 Alexander Diaz-Lopez) ...... 117. 0 GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION WHAT IS…a Varifold? (The Editors) ...... 1173 Blog ...... 1302 OPINION Interview with Ciprian Manolescu (Conducted by Alexander Diaz- Accessible Mathematics for People with Hearing Loss at Colleges Lopez) ...... 1297 and Universities (J . Tilak Ratnanather, Communicated by Steven J . WHAT IS…a Scheme? (Tom Gannon, Communicated by Cesar E . Mills ...... 1180. Silva) ...... 1300 Writing a Teaching Letter (Chris Woodward, Communicated by OPINION Harriet Pollatsek) ...... 1178 Four Goals for Instructors Using Inquiry-Based Learning (Chris BOOK REVIEW Rasmussen, Karen Marrongelle, Oh Nam Kwon, Angie Hodge, (The) Slow Professor (David Manderscheid) ...... 1191 Communicated by Benjamin Braun) ...... 1308 BOOKSHELF ...... 1194 BOOK REVIEW (The) Real and the Complex (Reviewed by Judith V . Grabiner) 2 . 132 BOOKSHELF ...... 1327

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COMMENTARY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Article about “Wide Influence” of L . E . Dickson (Stanley Liu) . .1329 Peripatetic Accent Marks (János Kollár) ...... 1329 Updating Math Genealogy ( Della Dumbaugh) ...... 1329 THE BACK PAGE ...... 1330 DEATH NOTICES/MEMORIAMS Marcel Berger Remembered (Claude LeBrun, Editor and Translator) ...... 1285

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AWARDS AND PRIZES Levi L . Conant Prize, 2017 ...... 3. 24 Bailey, David H . 2016 AAAS Mentor Award ...... 273 Borwein, Jonathan Radunskaya, Ami Mattingly . Andrew 2017 AAAS Fellows Elected ...... 6. 01 Aizenman, Michael Wightwick, Glenn Bhargava, Manjul Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, 2017 ...... 316 Hacon, Christopher D . DeMarco, Laura Kohn, Robert V . Mirzakhani, Maryam GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OPPORTUNITIES Serganova, Vera American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship . . . 1208. 2017 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships ...... 1209. Mathematics ...... 474 AMS Congressional Fellowship ...... 1208. Umland, Kristin AMS Epsilon Fund ...... 1209. 2017 AMS Exemplary Program Award ...... 47. 2 AMS-Simons Travel Grants Program ...... 60. The Department of Mathematics at University of Illinois AMS Travel Grants for ICM 2018 ...... 1038 2017 Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference . . . . . 4. 76 Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS ...... 627 Math Alliance AMS Menger Awards at the 2017 ISEF ...... 92. 7 Math in Moscow Scholarships Awarded ...... 1033 First Place (Griffin Macris) Project NExT 2017–2018 ...... 27. 7 Second Place (Savelii Novikov, Matthew Hase-Liu) Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling ...... 627 Third Place (Egor Morozov, Dmitrii Mikhailovskii, Arjun Ramani, Yuan-Jung Juang) MEETINGS & CONFERENCES Honorable Mention (Dona-Maria Ivanova, Shilun Li, Mas Land, General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences of the Alec Leng, Gonen Zimmerman) AMS ...... 75 AMS Waldemar J . Trjitzinsky Awards ...... 44. INVITED ADDRESS SPEAKERS BY MEETING Adonteng, Renee ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN: Fuchs, Elena; Putman, Andrew; Smart, Coleman, Andrew D . Charles ...... 669 Coelho, Terence ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Colding, Tobias Holck; Kenig, Carlos E .; Dupont, Madison C . Preskill, John; Simon, Barry; Staffilani, Gigliola; Taylor, Richard; Emblem, Seth Erik Wienhard, Anna ...... 77 Garcia, Edwin BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: Demeter, Ciprian; Koch, Sarah C ;. Leach, Breana Kechelle Schwartz, Richard Evan ...... 85 Bôcher Memorial Prize, 2017 ...... 317 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Ding, Jian; Frenkel, Edward; Tosatti, Vasy, András Valentino; Viazovska, Maryna ...... 6. 67 Centennial Fellowship Award, 2017–2018 ...... 595 BUFFALO, NEW YORK: Kim, Inwon C .; Menon, Govind; Sagan Bruce ...... 91. Takeda, Shuichiro CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Achar, Pramod N ;. Bray, Hubert; Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Chertock, Alina ...... 80. Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, 2017 . . . . . 330 Yang, David H . COLUMBUS, OHIO: Brown, Aaron; Dymarz, Tullia; Huh, June . . 666 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory, 2017 ...... 319 DENTON, TEXAS: Çiperiani, Mirela; Gillman, Adrianna; Pilgrim, Kevin ...... 90. Darmon, Henri FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: Dafermos, Mihalis; Hauenstein, Joseph L . Doob Prize, 2017 ...... 3. 27 Jonathan; Mann, Kathryn ...... 668 Friedlander, John HONOLULU, HAWAII: Mazur, Barry; Naber, Aaron; Needell, Iwaniec,Henryk Deanna; Stange, Katherine; Suk, Andrew ...... 1111 Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics, 2017 . . .321 NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: Bertozzi, Andrea; Landsberg, J . M ;. Erd˝os, László Morse, Jennifer; Wickelgren, Kirsten ...... 6. 67 Yau, Horng-Tzer NEWARK, DELAWARE: Greengard, Leslie; Grigsby, Elisenda; Maulik, Leroy P . Steele Prizes, 2017 ...... 311 Davesh ...... 668 Arthur, James NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Kahn, Jeremy; Marques, Fernando Codá; McDuff, Dusa Maynard, James; Ramanan, Kavita ...... 87 Salamon, Dietmar ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Heitsch, Christine; Kujawa, Jonathan; Sogge, Simon, Leon Christopher D ...... 91

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PORTLAND, OREGON: Kovács, Sándor; Mantovan, Elena; AMS–AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships ...... 1331 Shlyakhtenko, Dimitri ...... 428 AMS Department Chairs Workshop Held ...... 514, 1335 PULLMAN, WASHINGTON: Hitrik, Michael; Raich, Andrew S .; AMS E-mail Support for Frequently Asked Questions ...... 160 Rogalski, Daniel ...... 86. AMS Employment Center ...... 1041 RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA: Balmer, Paul; Etingof, Pavel; Vazirani, Monica ...... 92 AMS Graduate Student Chapter Spotlight ...... 568 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA : Ardila, Federico; Bryant, Robert; AMS Holds Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill ...... 514 Charney, Ruth; Dwork, Cynthia; Randall, Dana; Titi, Edriss; Wigderson, Avi ...... 798 AMS-MSRI Co-sponsored Congressional Briefing ...... 918 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA : Iyengar, Srikanth B .; Witherspoon, AMS Short Course ...... 1016 Sarah; Yakubu, Abdul-Aziz ...... 669 AMS–Simons Travel Grants Program ...... 60. SHANGHAI, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Dai, Yu-Hong; Ribet, AMS-Sponsored CNSF Exhibition ...... 918 Kenneth A ;. Schoen, Richard M .; Wu, Sijue; Xu, Chenyang; You, Jiangong ...... AMS Staff Support Local K–12 Education ...... 623 ...... 668 Call for Nominations AMS Exemplary Program Award . . . . 447 2017–2018 MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PROGRAMS Call for Nominations AMS Award for Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference ...... 501 Atlanta, Georgia (2017 JMM) ...... 77 Call for Nominations Award for Impact on the Teaching and Bloomington, Indiana (2017) ...... 176 Learning of Mathematics ...... 455 Buffalo, New York (2017) ...... 6. 52 Call for Nominations AWM–AMS Noether Lecture ...... 708 Charleston, South Carolina (2017) ...... 80. Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines ...... 1331 Denton, Texas (2017) ...... 646 Epsilon Awards Announced ...... 6. 22 Montréal, Quebec, Canada (2017) ...... 88. Erd˝os Memorial Lecture ...... 62, 623 New York, New York (2017) ...... 291 Fan China Exchange Program Grants Awarded ...... 6. 22 Orlando, Florida (2017) ...... 65. 7 Pullman, Washington (2017) ...... 181 Free Grant-Writing Workshop Offered ...... 1335 Riverside, California (2017) ...... 951 From the AMS Public Awareness Office . . . . 399, 765, 918, 1033 2017–2021 MEETINGS JMM 2017 Photo Key and Montage ...... 359, 360 Ann Arbor, Michigan (2018) ...... 189 JMM 2018 Meeting Registration Forms ...... 1127, 1128, 1247 Auburn, Alabama (2019) ...... 534 JMM 2017 Program at a Glance ...... 1113 Baltimore, Maryland (2019) ...... 94. (The) Line Newsletter Connects Supporters and Beneficiaries . 919 Binghamton, New York (2019) ...... 1246 Math in Moscow Scholarship Program ...... 395 Boston, Massachusetts (2018) ...... 93. Buffalo, New York (2017) ...... 91 Mathematical Moments: Designing Better Bicycles ...... 887 Columbus, Ohio (2018) ...... 92 Mathematical Moments: Maintaining a Balance ...... 137 Denton, Texas (2017) ...... 90. Mathematics Research Communities 2018 ...... 10. 39 Denver, Colorado (2020) ...... 94 Member Spotlight (Darryl H . Yong) ...... 72. 5 Fayetteville, Arkansas (2018) ...... 189 New AMS Blog from the Director of the AMS Washington Office Honolulu, Hawaii (2019) ...... 94...... 623 Nashville, Tennessee (2018) ...... 93 “News from the Road” ...... 399 Newark, Delaware (2018) ...... 93 Project NExT 2017 Fellows Chosen ...... 1335 Orlando, Florida (2017) ...... 91 Organizing the 2019 AMS Short Course ...... 10. 39 Portland, Oregon (2017) ...... 93. Portland, Oregon (2018) ...... 188 Report of the Executive Director: State of the AMS, 2016 . . . 914 Quy Nhon City, Vietnam (2019) ...... 1111 Report of the AMS Treasurer (2016) ...... 1. 026 Riverside, California (2017) ...... 92 Start an AMS Graduate Student Chapter at Your Institution . . 465 San Diego, California (2018) ...... 188 Women Doing Mathematics ...... 250 San Francisco, California (2018) ...... 94. NEWS Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (2018) ...... 93 Inside the AMS . . . . .62, 160, 399, 514, 622, 918, 1033, 1217, 1336 Washington, DC (2021) ...... 94 FYI ...... 160, 1338 THE AMS Mathematics Opportunities . . .60, 156, 395, 627, 920, 1208, 1331 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship . . . . 920 Mathematics People . . . . .52, 147, 272, 392, 595, 924, 1211, 1334 AMS Congressional Fellow Announced ...... 764 FROM THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE AMS–AAAS Mass Media Fellow Chosen ...... 764 2016 AMS Election Results ...... 142

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2017 AMS Election: Nomination by Petition ...... 144 Reciprocity Agreements ...... 1198

2017 American Mathematical Society Elections Report of the Executive Director: State of the AMS, 2016 . . . .914 Table of Contents ...... 837 Report of the AMS Treasurer, 2018 ...... 1026 List of Candidates ...... 838 Statistics on Women Mathematicians ...... 994 Election Information ...... 838 Voting Information for 2017 AMS Election (Carla D . Savage) . . 711 Proposed Amendments to the Bylaws ...... 840 NEW PUBLICATIONS OFFERED BY THE AMS . . . 63, 167, 278, Nominations for President ...... 842 409, 517, 631, 786, 937, 1048, 1219, 1340 Biographies of Candidates 2017 ...... 845 Current Bylaws ...... 860 SURVEYS AND REPORTS Call for Suggestions, 2018 ...... 865,. 1141 2016–2017 Faculty Salaries Report (Amanda L . Golbeck, Thomas H . Nominations by Petition ...... 866 Barr, and Colleen A . Rose) ...... 906 Doctoral Degrees Conferred ...... 727 2017 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics ...... 474 Report on 2015–2016 Academic Recruitment, Hiring, and Attrition 2017 AMS–MAA–SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for (Amanda L . Golbeck, Thomas H . Barr, and Colleen A . Rose) . .584 Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student ...... 330 2017 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department ...... 47. 2 2017 Award for Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference ...... 4. 76 2017 Bôcher Memorial Prize ...... 317 2017 Class of Fellows of the AMS ...... 268 2017 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory ...... 319 2017 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Awards ...... 479 2017 Joseph L . Doob Prize ...... 327 2017 Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics . . . 321 2017 Leroy P . Steele Prizes ...... 311 2017 Levi L . Conant Prize ...... 324 2017 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize ...... 316 2018 Class of Fellows of the AMS: Call for Nominations . . . . 238. 2018 Class of Fellows of the AMS Selected ...... 1217 AMS 2016 Contributors List ...... 488 AMS Governance, 2017 ...... 625 Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals ...... 1184 Biennial Overview of AMS Honors (Carla D . Savage) . . . . . 1200 Call for Nominations for Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize, Award for Distinguished Public Service, Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory, Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra, George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics, Levi L . Conant Prize ...... 390, 486 Call for Nominations for D . R . Fulkerson Prize ...... 1. 274 Call for Nominations for Leroy P . Steele Prizes ...... 141, 195 New AMS Member Benefit ...... 1217 NEW Opportunity: Ulf Grenander Prize . . . 398, May Inside Cover NEW Opportunity: Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS . . 400, 495

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