Biographies of Candidates 2008

Biographical information about the candidates has been supplied and verified by the candidates. Candidates have had the opportunity to make a statement of not more than 200 words (400 words for presidential candidates) on any subject matter without restriction and to list up to five of their research papers. Candidates have had the opportunity to supply a photograph to accompany their biographical information. Candidates with an asterisk (*) beside their names were nominated in response to a petition. Abbreviations: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Mathematical Society (AMS); American Statistical Association (ASA); Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL); Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM); Canadian Mathematical Society, Société Mathématique du Canada (CMS); Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS); Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Insti- tute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS); International Mathematical Union (IMU); London Mathematical Society (LMS); Mathematical Association of America (MAA); Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI); National Academy of Sciences (NAS); National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM); National Science Foundation (NSF); Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Vice President Selected Publications: 1. with A. O. L. Atkin, Twists of Wen-Ching Winnie Li newforms and pseudo- eigenvalues of W-operators, Invent. Professor, Pennsylvania State Uni- Math., 48 (1978), 221–243. MR0508986 (80a:10040); 2. versity. Number Theory with Applications, World Scientific, Sin- Born: December 25, 1948, Chia-yi, gapore, 1996. MR1390759 (98b:11001); 3. Ramanujan Taiwan. hypergraphs, Geom. Funct. Anal., 14 (2004), 380–399. Ph.D.: University of California, MR206019 9(2005i:11172); 4. with R. Koetter, P. O. Vonto- Berkeley, 1974. bel and J. Walker, Characterizations of pseudo-codewords AMS Committees: Committee on of LDPC codes, Adv. Math., 213, Issue 1 (2007), 205–229. Human Rights of Mathematicians, MR2331243; 5. with A. O. L. Atkin and L. Long, On Atkin 1992–1995, 2007–2010; Edito- and Swinnerton-Dyer congruence relations. II. Math. Ann., rial Committees: Transactions and 340 (2008), No. 2, 335–358. MR2368983. Memoirs of the AMS, 1992–1996; Statement: I strongly support the central role of the AMS Proceedings of the AMS, 2002–2010. in promoting mathematical research and the interests of Selected Addresses: Invited Address, AMS Summer Meet- mathematicians. The AMS is the main advocate of the pro- ing, Albany, 1983; Invited Lecture, First International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Beijing, 1998; Invited fession. As such, it should play a leading role in enhanc- Plenary Address, Taiwanese Mathematical Society, Annual ing the mathematics education of all levels. AMS should Meeting, Taipei, 2006; Invited Lecture, Fourth International continue to publicize and promote the developments in Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hangzhou, 2007; not only the traditional areas of pure and applied math- Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, ematics, but also the rapidly evolving interdisciplinary 2008. areas to which mathematics could have essential applica- Additional Information: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1981– tions. I hope to have the opportunity to work with the 1983; AMS Visiting Professorship for Women Award, mathematical community in general and the AMS Council 1991–1992; Editorial Boards: Taiwanese Journal of Math- in particular towards these goals. ematics, 1998–2010, International Journal of Number Theory, 2005—present, Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, 2008–2013; Center Scientist, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Mathematics Division, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2006–2007.

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Frank Morgan Selected Addresses: AMS Invited Address, Lexington, Atwell Professor of Mathematics, KY, 1994; 45-minute address, International Congress of Williams College. Mathematicians, Zurich, 1994. Born: USA. Additional Information: AMS Centennial Fellow, 1992– Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1977. 1994; Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholar, 2005; AMS Offices: Member at Large of Guggenheim Fellow, 2005–2006. the Council, 1994–1997. Selected Publications: 1. On K3 surfaces with large Picard AMS Committees: Nominating number, Invent. Math., 75 (1984), 105–121. MR0728142 Committee and others. (85j:14071); 2. with S. Katz, Gorenstein threefold singulari- Selected Addresses: Joint Invited ties with small resolutions via invariant theory for Weyl Address, Joint Mathematics Meet- groups, J. Alg. Geom., 1 (1992), 449–530. MR1158626 ings, San Francisco, CA, 1991; In- (93b:14030); 3. Mirror symmetry and rational curves on vited Address, MathFest, Madison, quintic threefolds: A guide for mathematicians, J. Amer. WI, 2001; Invited Address, Geometry Festival, 2006; Invited Math. Soc., 6 (1993), 223–247. MR1179538 (93j:14047); Lecture, ISASA, Granada, Spain, 2006. 4. with P. S. Aspinwall and B. R. Greene, Multiple mirror Additional Information: NSF math advisory commit- manifolds and topology change in string theory, Phys. Lett. tee, 1987–1990; Haimo MAA national teaching award, B, 303 (1993), 249–259. MR1214080 (94g:32031); 5. with inaugural winner, 1992; Second Vice-President, MAA, B. R. Greene and A. Strominger, Black hole condensation 2000–2002. and the unification of string vacua, Nucl. Phys. B, 451 Selected Publications: 1. Geometric Measure Theory: A Be- (1995), 109–120. MR1352415 (96m:83085). ginner’s Guide, Academic Press Inc., 1988; Japanese trans- Statement: The American Mathematical Society serves lation, 1989; second edition, 1995; third edition, 2000; mathematics in three important ways: through meetings Russian edition, 2006; fourth edition, 2008. MR1775760 and conferences, facilitating interaction among mathema- (2001j:49001); 2. The Math Chat Book, Mathematical As- ticians; through public outreach, helping mathematicians sociation of America, 2000 (based on live, call-in TV show). explain the role of mathematics to government representa- MR1733304; 3. with Michael Hutchings, Manuel Ritoré, tives and the public at large; and through its publication and Antonio Ros, Proof of the double bubble conjecture, program, which not only makes mathematical research Ann. of Math. (2), 155 (2002), No. 2, 459–489. MR1906593 available in print and online, but has supported the de- (2003c:53013); 4. Manifolds with density, Notices Amer. velopment and dissemination of key tools (TEX, and more Math. Soc., 52 (2005), No. 8, 853–858. MR2161354 recently the STYX fonts) which enable mathematicians to (2006g:53044). communicate their research with each other. I have been Statement: The American Mathematical Society stands pleased to watch these three strands develop in forward- for mathematics in the United States and throughout the looking ways during my roughly thirty years as an AMS world, supporting research and communication at all lev- member; as Trustee, I will help ensure the financial stabil- els. We need and welcome all kinds of participation, from ity and institutional flexibility which will allow the Society the frontiers of research to all areas of society, from all to continue its development in these directions. segments of our population, from research mathemati- cians and scientists, community college teachers, gradu- Ronald J. Stern ate students, undergraduates, public and private school teachers and students, the press, politicians, and all walks Professor of Mathematics, Univer- of life. Our doors should be open to new participants and sity of California, Irvine. Born: new ideas: the world is full of opportunities for us. January 20, 1947, Chicago, Illinois. Ph.D.: UCLA, 1973. Trustee AMS Committees: Western Sec- David R. Morrison tion Speaker Selection Committee Professor of Mathematics and (Chair), 1986–1988, 1992–1993; Physics, University of California, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Editorial Santa Barbara. Committee, 1992–1996; Subcom- Born: July 29, 1955, Oakland, Cali- mittee on Prizes (CoProf), 1993– fornia, USA. 1998; Committee on the Profes- Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1980. sion, 1993–1999; Working Group on Public Awareness of AMS Offices: Member at Large Mathematics, 1996–1997; Subcommittee on Membership of the Council, 2002–2005; Ex- (CoProf), 1997–1998; AMS-SMM Joint Program Commit- ecutive Committee of the Council, tee, Denton Meeting, May, 1999, 1998–2000; LAC-UCLA 2002–2005. Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century, 1999–2000; AMS Committees: Board of Trust- Committee on Publications, 1999–2002; Graduate Studies ees Committee on the Publication in Mathematics, 1999–2002; Committee on Committees Program, 1994–1995; Committee on Publications, 2002– (Chair), 2000–2005; AMS Fellows Program Subcommittee, 2005; Committee on Committees, 2005–2007; Eisenbud 2002–2005; Mathematical Reviews Editorial Committee, Prize Committee, 2006–2007. AMS Committee to Select the Winner of the 2007 Oswald

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Veblen Prize, 2006–2008; AMS Science Policy Committee Conference, Poland, 2006; Interactions of Geometry and (Chair), 2007–2010. Topology in Low Dimensions Conference, BIRS, Banff, Selected Addresses: MAA Invited Address, Eugene, Oregon, 2007; Georgia Topology Conference, Athens, Georgia, August 1984; AMS Invited Address, Laramie, Wyoming, 2007. August, 1985; Joint AMS-SMM Invited Address, Oaxaca, Additional Information: VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mexico, 1997; Invited Speaker, International Congress of Indiana University, 2001– 2004; Research Fellow, Institute Mathematicians, Berlin, Germany, 1998; Plenary Address, for Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2003; NSF Disciplinary DMV Jahrestagung, Heidelberg, Germany, 2004. Grant in Topology, 2004–2008; Research Fellow, Park City Additional Information: Secretary, MSRI Board of Trust- Mathematics Institute, 2006; NSF Course, Curriculum, and ees, 1992–1996; President and Chair of the Board of Laboratory Improvement Grant, 2007; National Science Governors of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 1995–; Foundation CAREER awardee, 2008; Mathematics Adviser, Sloan Foundation, Mathematics Selection Committee, LSU Geaux Teach Program; currently advising one graduate 2000–2005; Editor, Geometry and Topology, 2001–; Distin- student. Member of the AMS, AWM, and MAA. guished Alumnus, Knox College, 2003; Board of Directors, Selected Publications: 1. Seiberg-Witten invariants, or- Mathematical Sciences Publishers, 2004–; Dean, School of bifolds, and circle actions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 355 Physical Sciences, UCI, 1998– 2006; Steering Committee of (2002), No. 4, 1669–1697. MR1946410 (2003j:57050); IAS/Park City Summer Institute in Mathematics, 2007–. 2. with Thomas H. Parker, Elementary Mathematics for Selected Publications: 1. with D. E. Galewski, Classifica- Teachers, Sefton-Ash Publishing (2004), x+237 pages; 3. tion of simplicial triangulations of topological manifolds, New symplectic 4-manifolds with b ​1, Math. Ann., 333 Ann. of Math. (2), 111 (1980), No. 1, 1–34. MR0558395 += (81f:57012); 2. with R. Fintushel, The blowup formula for (2005), No. 3, 633–643. MR2198801 (2006m:57035); 4. Donaldson invariants, Ann. of Math. (2), 143 (1996), No. 3, with P. Kirk, On symplectic 4-manifolds with prescribed 529–546. MR1394968 (97i:57036); 3. Rational blowdowns fundamental group, Comment. Math. Helv., 82 (2007), of smooth 4-manifolds. J. Differential Geom., 46 (1997), No. 4, 845–875. MR2341842; 5. with P. Kirk, A symplec- No. 2, 181–235. MR1484044(98j:57047); 4. with R. Fin- tic manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to 2 2 tushel, Knots, links, and 4-manifolds, Invent. Math., 134 C​P​​#3C​P​​, Geom. Topol., to appear. (1998), No. 2, 363–400. MR1650308 (99j:57033); 5. with Statement: If elected to the Council I will do my best R. Fintushel, Surgery on nullhomologous tori and simply to advance the research efforts of all of its members. I connected 4-manifolds with b+=1, Journal of Topology, 1 believe we must articulate the beauty and importance of (2008), No. 1, 1–15. MR2365649. mathematics to our national and industrial leaders, and Statement: I would be honored to serve as a Trustee for actively encourage Congress to support higher levels of re- an organization that represents my life-long passion. Keep search funding for mathematics, especially during the first in mind that the primary responsibility of the Board of year of a new administration. Ph.D. granting mathematics Trustees is the fiduciary health of the Society. As such departments need support to continue to attract the best they determine the annual budget of the Society, prices of and brightest students from around the world. Mathema- journals, salaries of employees, and investment policy for ticians at liberal arts and regional universities are also in the Society’s reserves. As former dean at a major research the process of building energetic, often interdisciplinary, university and as either a current or former officer of research-friendly environments. By supporting their initia- several boards of governors and trustees of mathematical tives, we increase the number of attractive career options institutes and journals, I have, if elected, ample experience for new Ph.D. graduates. The remarkable work the AMS to hit the ground running. For a statement of how I view does through affordable online journals, MathSciNet, job the role of the society within the scientific and broader fairs, undergraduate research, conferences and meetings communities, see the September 2005 issue of the Notices, clearly support these initiatives, and we should look for pages 921–22. ways to do more. Finally, all AMS members are concerned Member at Large with K–12 education and students (and K–16 teaching in general). We desire to help, but often cannot reach out Scott Jeremy Baldridge to schools and teachers without diverting funds from Assistant Professor of Mathemat- the core missions: the mechanisms are not in place to ics, Louisiana State University. make it easy to help. As national initiatives such as GK- Born: September 5, 1970, Grand 12 grants are introduced, the AMS can and should be a Rapids, MI, USA. strong advocate for involving mathematicians in K–12 Ph.D.: Michigan State University, education in ways that strengthen the core missions of 2001. the department. Selected Addresses: AMS Special Session on New Developments in Symplectic Topology, San Anto- nio, 2006; AMS Special Session on Invariants of Low Dimensional Manifolds, Miami, Florida, 2006; Symplectic Geometry and Topology and Their Applications

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Aaron Bertram accomplished mathematicians? For example, as a depart- Professor and Chair, University of mental chair I can see both the advantage of a society of Utah Mathematics Department. fellows (in negotiations with the dean) and the disadvan- Born: May 20, 1962, Los Angeles, tage (in the morale of those left out). CA, USA. Ph.D.: UCLA, 1989. Hector Daniel Ceniceros Selected Addresses: “New moduli Professor of Mathematics, Depart- for K3 surfaces, or why Castel- ment of Mathematics, University nuovo would have liked the de- of California, Santa Barbara. rived category”, Harvard Algebraic Born: March 13, 1967, Culiacan, Geometry Seminar, May 7, 2006; Sinaloa, Mexico. “Constructing Bridgeland moduli Ph.D: Courant Institute of Math- spaces with Mukai flops”, Princ- ematical Sciences, New York Uni- eton Algebraic Geometry Seminar, November 7, 2006; versity, 1995. “Why does pi keep popping up?” Utah Undergraduate Selected Addresses: Invited Colloquium, October 3, 2007; “Vanishing and Stability”, Speaker, VI Workshop on Numeri- Berkeley-Stanford joint Algebraic Geometry Colloquium, cal Analysis for Free Boundary November 27, 2007; “Stability conditions in codimension Problems, Braga, Portugal, No- two”, UIC Algebraic Geometry Seminar, April 10, 2008. vember, 1998; Invited Speaker, International Conference on Scientific and Engineering Additional Information: NSF postdoctoral fellow, 1989– Computing, Beijing, China, March, 2001; International 1993; Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor (Harvard), Workshop on Free Boundary Problems in Fluid Mechan- 1989–1993; Sloan research fellow, 1993–1995; Co-Guru ics, Nottingham, UK, September, 2003; Invited Speaker, (with Ravi Vakil), Western Algebraic Geometry Seminars, International Conference of Free Boundary Problems, 2001–present; Co-Organizer, Seattle Summer Institute in Theory and Applications, Coimbra, Portugal, June, 2005; Algebraic Geometry, 2005; Steering Committee, IAS/Park Colloquium Lecture, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), 2006–present. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, March, 2007. Selected Publications: 1. with L. Ein and R. Lazarsfeld, Additional Information: Founding faculty advisor of Vanishing theorems, a theorem of Severi, and the equa- the UCSB SACNAS Chapter; Member of the Society for tions defining projective varieties, J. Amer. Math. Soc., Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sci- 4 (1991), No. 3, 587–602. MR1092845 (92g:14014); 2. ence (SACNAS); The Mochizuki Teaching Award recipient, Quantum Schubert calculus, Adv. Math., 128 (1997), No. 2, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002; Faculty Ca- 289–305. MR1454400 (98j:14067); 3. Another way to enu- reer Development Award, University of California, Santa merate rational curves with torus actions, Invent. Math., Barbara, 2003. 142 (2000), No. 3, 487–512. MR1804158 (2001m:14077); Selected Publications: 1. with T. Y. Hou, Convergence of 4. with I. Ciocan-Fontanine and B. Kim, Two proofs of a a non-stiff boundary integral method for interfacial flows conjecture of Hori and Vafa, Duke Math. J., 126 (2005), with surface tension, Math. Comp., 67 (1998), No. 221, No. 1, 101–136. MR2110629 (2006e:14077); 5. with I. 137– 182. MR1443116 (98c:76077); 2. with T. Y. Hou, An Ciocan-Fontanine and B. Kim, Gromov-Witten invariants efficient dynamically adaptive mesh for potentially sin- for abelian and nonabelian quotients, J. Algebraic Geom., gular solutions, J. Comput. Phys., 172 (2001), 609–639; 3. 17 (2008), No. 2, 275–294. MR2369087. The effects of surfactants on the evolution and formation Statement: The duties of a member-at-large are “to of capillary waves, Phys. Fluids, 15 (2003), No. 1, 245–256. legislate for the Society on matters concerned with the MR1971799 (2004b:76055); 4. with V. E. Badalassi and furtherance of the interests of mathematical scholarship S. Banerjee, Computation of multiphase systems with and research.” Over the past 20 years as a researcher phase field models, J. Comput. Phys., 190 (2003), No. 2, and teacher, but especially over the past 3 years as chair 371–397. MR2013023 (2004j:65149); 5. with G. Fredrick- of my mathematics department, I have thought a great son, Numerical solution of polymer self-consistent field deal about such matters. Three issues, in particular, theory, Multiscale Model. Simul., 2 (2004), No. 3, 452– 474. stand out clearly. 1) How do we identify and nurture our MR2111703 (2005h:82120). most promising young mathematicians? The system of Statement: The AMS provides an essential professional postdoctoral instructorships, governmental and private network for our mathematical community and has fellowships and grants seems to work well, on the whole. played a key role in promoting research and education But we need to be vigilant to make sure that our talented in mathematics. We need to support these efforts while Ph.D.’s do not fall through the cracks, particularly in a enhancing our ability to communicate effectively to the time of declining resources. 2) How do we adapt to the public the beauty and the importance of mathematics in role of the Internet in the dissemination of mathemat- today’s world. We need to outreach to pre-college stu- ics? As publication prices continue to soar, the use of dents, especially in disadvantaged areas and we need to online journals will increase. We need to be careful about better educate the private sector about the connections quality control. Diligent peer review of articles is im- of mathematics with real life problems. mensely important, and seems increasingly difficult to obtain. 3) How do we, as a profession, recognize our most

September 2008 Notices of the AMS 1005 From the AMS Secretary—Election Special Section

David Manderscheid As a dean, I would provide the perspective of one of the Professor of Mathematics and key partners, at least in academe, in moving mathematics Dean of the College of Arts and forward and serving the needs of mathematicians. I am Sciences, University of Nebraska- particularly concerned that we make mathematics stron- Lincoln. ger by engaging members of all groups, particularly those Born: March 7, 1955, Redwood underrepresented, and by providing our students and City, California, USA. faculty with the best opportunities to succeed. The AMS Ph.D.: Yale University, 1981. is a great organization. I would welcome the opportunity AMS Committees: AMS Represen- to help make it and the profession even better. tative to AMS-MAA Committee on Research in Undergraduate Math- William A. Massey ematics Education, 2001–2004; Edwin S. Wilsey Professor, Depart- AMS Advisory Board, Mathematics ment of Operations Research and Research Communities, 2007. Financial Engineering, Princeton Selected Addresses: AMS Special Sessions: Washington, University, Princeton, NJ. DC and Hong Kong, 2000; Madison, 2002; San Antonio, Born: 1956, Jefferson City, Mis- 2006; New Orleans, 2007; San Diego, 2008; National Bu- souri. reau of Economic Research, Diversifying the Science and Ph.D.: Stanford University, 1981. Engineering Workforce, Harvard University, 2005; Dean’s Selected Addresses: Bandwidth Summit, Rice University, 2007. Service Models for Provisioning Additional Information: NSF Mathematical Sciences and Pricing, SIAM Conference, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1985–1988; Member, MSRI, Montréal, Canada, July, 2003; 1988, 1995; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1988– Queueing Networks with Time 1989; University of Iowa, 1987–2007, Department Chair Varying Rates for Modeling Call 2001–2007; Visiting Professor, Université Paris VII (Denis Centers, Call Center Workshop, École Polytechnique, Mon- Diderot), 2001; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007–; tréal, Canada, August, 2004; The Mathematical Dimensions Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mathematics of Knowledge, National Association of Mathematicians and Engineering Mentoring, University of Iowa Department Undergraduate MATHFest, Morehouse College, October, of Mathematics, NSF and the White House, 2005; Programs 2004; A Dynamical Systems Analysis for Stochastic Models that Make a Difference Award, University of Iowa Depart- of Call Centers, SIAM Applications of Dynamical Systems ment of Mathematics, AMS, 2006; Award for an Exemplary Meeting, Snowbird, Utah, May, 2005; Approximating Re- Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department, sponse Times for Dynamical Processor Sharing Queues, University of Iowa Department of Mathematics, AMS, 2008; First Conference of African-American Researchers in Co-organizer, Leadership Workshop, Finding and Keeping the Computing Sciences, Auburn University, July, 2006; Diverse Graduate Students in the Mathematical Sciences, Dynamical Queueing Systems, Institute for Mathematics American Institute of Mathematics, 2006; Co-leader, AMS and its Applications (IMA) Special Workshop: Blackwell- Workshop for Department Chairs and Department Lead- Tapia Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November, 2006; ers, 2006–2008; Member of the MAA and SIAM. Mathematics, Mentoring, Microphones and Minorities, Selected Publications: 1. Supercuspidal duality for the Mathematics Colloquium, Teachers College, Columbia University, October, 2007; The Four Dimensions of Math- two-fold cover of SL2​ and the split 3​, Amer. J. Math., 107 (1985), No. 6, 1305–1323. MR0815764O (87e:22040); ematics, Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ACTM) 2007 Fall Forum, Auburn University, Montgomery, 2. with P. Kutzko, On intertwining operators of GLN​(F) F​ a non-Archimedean local field, Duke Math. J., 57 (1988), Alabama, October, 2007; Dynamical Queueing Systems, No. 1, 275–294. MR0952235 (90c:22054); 3. Base change QPA Workshop on Queueing theory without limits: tran- for p​-adic SL(2) as a theta correspondence. II. Jacquet sient and asymptotic analysis EURANDOM, Eindhoven, modules, Pacific J. Math., 199 (2001), No. 2, 447–466. The Netherlands, October, 2007; Modified-Offered Load MR1847141 (2002f:22031a); 4. Waldspurger’s involution and Fluid Models for Workforce Management, Call Center and types, J. London Math. Soc., 70 (2004), No. 3, 567–586. Forum: Contact Center Management, Wharton School of MR2096864 (2005j:11037); 5. Changing the culture of a Business, February, 2008. mathematics department: The Iowa experience, Mathemat- Additional Information: Awarded an NSF Research Train- ics and Education Reform (MER) Newsletter, 16 (2006), No. ing Group for Stochastic Analysis & Applications (Co-PI); 4, 1–4. Awarded an NSF Grant DMI-0323668 on Telephone Call Statement: The AMS promotes mathematical research, Centers—Performance, Design and Control of Time Vary- acts to strengthen mathematics education, and fosters ing Queues; U.S. patent number 5,923,873 titled Method appreciation and awareness of the importance of math- for determining server staffing in management of finite ematics. The Council plays a critical role in determining server queueing systems; Named Fellow of the Institute for the direction and tenor of the Society in satisfying this Operations Research and Financial Engineering (INFORMS), three-part mission. I have a proven record of excellence, 2006; Winner of the 2006 Blackwell-Tapia Prize; Distin- leadership, and innovation in each of these areas. I listen guished Service Award from the National Association of and question, argue effectively, and then get things done. Mathematicians.

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Selected Publications: 1. with K. Leung and W. Whitt, Traf- the field. New trends towards the integration of mathemat- fic models for wireless communications networks, IEEE ics across other disciplines and the use of computing are Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, 12 (October profoundly changing the way mathematicians conduct 1994), 1353–1364; 2. with W. Whitt, Uniform acceleration research. We are also witnessing a shift in demographics expansions for Markov chains with time-varying rates, as many universities are replacing the professoriate hired Annals of Applied Probability, 8 (1998), No. 4, 1130–1155. in the 1960s. MR1661164 (2000b:60176); 3. with A. Mandelbaum and I believe it is important for the AMS to be the leader in M. I. Reiman, Strong approximations for Markovian ser- the ongoing transformation of the mathematical profes- vice networks, Queueing Systems and Their Applications, sion. In this time of change, it is important for elected 30 (1998), 149–201. MR1663767 (99i:60163); 4. with officers in the AMS to make wise decisions about policies R. C. Hampshire and M. Harchol-Balter, Fluid and diffusion affecting its constituency. As an AMS Council Member, I limits for transient sojourn times of processor sharing would promote the continued strengthening of the col- queues with time varying rates, Special issue of Queueing laborative national and international infrastructure in Systems and Their Applications on Fair Resource Sharing, the mathematical sciences. Also, I would seek to create 53 (2006), No. 1–2, 19–30. MR2230011 (2007a:60053); 5. opportunities for professional development at all levels, with Z. Feldman, A. Mandelbaum, and W. Whitt, Staffing of and increase the current funding base for the profession. time-varying queues to achieve time-stable performance, As part of these goals, the AMS needs to develop out- A special issue of Management Science on Call Centers. reach opportunities for recruitment into the profession 54 (2008), 324-338. by generating public awareness of the utility and beauty of mathematics. Daniel K. Nakano Professor of Mathematics, Univer- Panagiotis E. Souganidis sity of Georgia. Distinguished Services Professor, Born: July 30, 1964, Seattle, Wash- Department of Mathematics, The ington, USA. University of Chicago. Ph.D.: Yale University, 1990. Born: February 8, 1957, Peiraeus, Selected Addresses: Plenary Ad- Greece. dress, AMS Summer Research Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin- Conference, South Hadley, MA, Madison, Mathematics, 1983. 2002; Bristol-Leicester-Oxford Col- Selected Addresses: AMS Sec- loquium, UK, 2003; International tional Meeting, Invited Lecture, AsiaLink Conference on Algebras Philadelphia, 1991; International and Representation Theory, Bei- Congress of Mathematicians, Par- jing, China, 2005; Distinguished tial Differential Equations Session, Shoemaker Lectures, University of Toledo, 2007; One-Hour Zurich, 1994; Congrès de Mathématiques Appliquées à la AMS Address, Murfreesboro, TN, 2007. mémoire de J.-L. Lions, Plenary Lecture, Collège de France, Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, North- Paris, 2002; IMA 20th Anniversary Conference, Plenary western University, 1992–1995; EPSRC Research Fellow, Lecture, Minneapolis, 2003; PIMS Distinguished Speaker Oxford University, 2003; Editor, Communications in Alge- Seminar, Vancouver, 2006. bra, 2005–; Creative Research Medal, University of Geor- Additional Information: Presidential Young Investigator, gia, 2007; PI for the NSF VIGRE Grant at the University of 1987; Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1989; Villas Associate Georgia, 2008–; General Member, MSRI, 2008. Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996; Bodossaki Selected Publications: 1. with J. Carlson and K. Peters, On Foundation Academic Prize, 1996; Asbel Smith Professor, the vanishing of extensions of modules over reduced en- The University of Texas at Austin, 2001–2003; Highly Cited veloping algebras, Math. Ann., 302 (1995), No. 3, 541–560. Researcher, 2003; Pennzoil Company Regents Professor, MR1339926 (96f:17029); 2. with Z. Lin, Complexity for The University of Texas at Austin, 2003–2005; R. L. Moore modules over finite Chevalley groups and classical Lie alge- Chair, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005–2008; Dis- bras, Invent. Math., 138 (1999), No. 1, 85–101. MR1714337 tinguished Services Professor, The University of Chicago, (2000m:20077); 3. with B. Parshall and D. Vella, Support 2008–. Editorial Boards: Co-Editor of Communications in varieties for algebraic groups, J. Reine Angew. Math., Partial Differential Equations, 1992–; Associate Editor of 547 (2002), 15–49. MR1900135 (2003b:20063); 4. with Electronic Journal on Differential Equations, 1993–; Bulle- D. Hemmer, Specht filtrations for Hecke algebras of type tin of American Mathematical Society, 2001–; Annales de A, J. London Math. Soc. (2), 69 (2004), No. 3, 623–638. l’Institut Henri Poincaré, Analyse Non Linéaire, 2001–; Non- MR2050037 (2005f:20025); 5. with C. Bendel and C. Pil- linear Differential Equations and Applications, 2008–. len, Second cohomology groups for Frobenius kernels and Selected Publications: 1. with G. Barles, Convergence of 209 related structures, Adv. Math., (2007), No. 1, 162–197. approximations schemes for fully nonlinear second order 2294220 (2008c:20085) MR . equations, Asymptotic Anal., 4 (1991), No. 3, 271–283. Statement: Mathematicians are currently faced with the MR1115933 (92d:35137); 2. with L. C. Evans and H. M. challenge of incorporating the traditions and rich history Soner, Phase transitions and generalized motion by mean of the discipline with the present and future directions of curvature, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 45 (1992), No. 9,

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1097– 1123. MR1177477 (93g:35064); 3. with P.-L. Lions Additional Information: Editorial Boards: Advances in Ap- and Benoît Perthame, Existence and stability of entropy plied Math., 1994–, SIAM J. on Discrete Math., 1996–, Order, solutions for the hyperbolic systems of isentropic gas 1998–2005; Visiting Positions: UCSD (Visiting Associate dynamics in Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates, Comm. Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Pure Appl. Math., 49 (1996), No. 6, 599– 638. MR1383202 1983–1984), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (97e:35107); 4. Stochastic homogenization of Hamilton- (Visiting Professor, June 1989), Mittag-Leffler Institute Jacobi equations and some applications, Asymptotic Anal., (May 1992 and May–June, 2005), MSRI (General Member, 20 (1999), No. 1, 1–11. MR1697831 (2000k:49038); 5. October 1996 and May 1997), KTH Stockholm (Guest with L. Caffarelli and L. Wang, Homogenization of fully Researcher, January–June, 1999), Isaac Newton Institute nonlinear, uniformly elliptic and parabolic partial dif- (Member, May–July, 2001), Cambridge University (Visiting ferential equations in stationary ergodic media, Comm. Scholar, September–December, 2005); Conference Co-orga- Pure Appl. Math., 58 (2005), No. 3, 319–361. MR2116617 nization: AMS Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, (2006b:35016). Statement: Mathematics, with its rigor, elegance and ev- Knoxville, 1993, and Louisville, 1998; MSRI Workshop on erlasting impact, occupies a central place in the scientific Enumeration and Posets, 1996; AMS Special Session on universe. Despite its great contributions to scientific ad- Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Com- vancement, mathematics does not receive the attention binatorics and Interactions Between Them, Bloomington, and support it deserves. Mathematicians face problems 2008; University of Miami Cooper Fellow, 2006–2009. with the quality of students and programs, research fund- Selected Publications: 1. with A. Björner, Bruhat order ing, compensation and resource availability. of Coxeter groups and shellability, Adv. Math., 43 (1982), Increasing the support for and the visibility of the No. 1, 87–100. MR0644668 (83i:20043); 2. with A. Björner, mathematical sciences are tasks that are more pressing Shellable nonpure complexes and posets. I., Trans. Amer. due to the current rapid progress in technology, medicine, Math. Soc., 348 (1996), No. 4, 1299–1327. MR1333388 biology, energy, etc. Mathematics has a critical role to (96i:06008); 3. with J. Shareshian, Torsion in the match- play, and this progress requires ever greater mathematical ing complex and chessboard complex, Adv. Math., 212 infrastructure. New research directions are being defined (2007), No. 2, 525–570. MR2329312 (2008d:55012); 4. and interdisciplinary fields are being created. The need for with J. Shareshian, q-Eulerian polynomials: excedance innovative cross-areas research and training programs has number and major index, Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. never been greater. It is very important to raise the aware- Math. Soc., 13 (2007), 33–45. MR2300004 (2008e:05010); ness of how much mathematical training and knowledge 5. Poset topology: tools and applications, in Geometric are needed in order to make best progress in emerging Combinatorics, IAS/Park City Math. Ser., 13, Amer. Math. scientific areas. The AMS is the ideal platform for promot- Soc., Providence, RI, 2007, pp. 497–615. MR2383132. ing both the value of mathematics and, at the same time, future initiatives. Statement: It is my belief that we need the AMS now more Recognition of the strong role of mathematics comes than ever. We need the AMS to help us communicate with a responsibility to continue basic research, to reach effectively, to both the scientific and nonscientific com- out to other disciplines, to produce the next generation munities, the view that there is just one mathematics, of mathematical scientists, and to be sufficiently broad in comprised of different fields, which interconnect and our thinking and training. share the common goal of seeking a universal truth and beauty. We need the AMS to help us convincingly convey Michelle L. Wachs to non-mathematicians the importance of mathematics Professor of Mathematics, Univer- research and adequate funding for it through foundations sity of Miami. such as the NSF. We need the AMS to help us attract and inspire the next generation of mathematicians. We need Born: November 30, 1952, New the AMS to maintain its strong commitment to promot- York, New York. ing research and training in fundamental mathematics, as Ph.D.: University of California, San well as promoting the use of sophisticated mathematics Diego, 1977. in other fields such as physics, biology, and finance. I AMS Committees: Southeast- ern Section Program Committee, would be honored to serve the mathematics community 1994–1996 (chair, 1995–1996). as a Member at Large of the Council if elected. Selected Addresses: AMS Invited Hour Address, Knoxville, 1993; Plenary Address, International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Com- binatorics (FPSAC), Minnesota, 1996 and San Diego, 2006; Invited Speaker, MSRI Workshops, 1996 and 1997; Gradu- ate School Lecturer, IAS, Park City Mathematics Institute, Geometric Combinatorics Program, 5 lectures, 2004; In- vited Speaker, Festive Combinatorics in honor of Anders Björner, KTH Stockholm, 2008.

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David Wright Horng-Tzer Yau Professor and Chair, Department Professor, Harvard University. of Mathematics, Washington Uni- Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1987. versity, St. Louis, Missouri. Selected Address: Plenary Speech, Born: December 1, 1949. International Congress of Math- Ph.D.: Columbia University, 1975. ematical Physics, 1997, 2000; Cur- Selected Addresses: Invited Ad- rent Development in Mathematics, dress, joint meeting of the Ameri- 1998; Medallion Lecture of Insti- can Mathematical Society and the tute of Mathematical Statistics, Taiwan Mathematical Society in 2004; Kuwait Lecture, Cambridge Taichung, Taiwan, December 16, University, 2007. 2005; Invited Address and mini- Additional Information: Packard course, International School and Foundation Fellowship, 1991– Workshop on Polynomial Automorphisms and Related 1996; Poincaré Prize, 2000; MacArthur Fellowship, 2000; Topics, Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam, October Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001; 9–20, 2006; Invited Address, Conference on Affine Alge- Morningside Gold Medal in Mathematics, 2001. braic Geometry, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Ober- Selected Publications: 1. with S. Olla and S. R. S. Varad- wolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany, January 7–13, 2007. han, Hydrodynamical limit for a Hamiltonian system Additional Information: Expert in the areas of Affine with weak noise, Comm. Math. Phys., 155 (1993), No. 3, Algebraic Geometry and Polynomial Automorphisms; 523–560. MR1231642 (94k:60158); 2. with J. Quastel, Chair, Department of Mathematics, Washington University, Lattice gases, large deviations, and the incompressible 2004–; Co-organizer of the International School and Work- Navier-Stokes equations, Ann. of Math. (2), 148 (1998), No. shop on Polynomial Automorphisms and Related Topics, 1, 51–108. MR1652971 (99j:60157); 3. (log ​t​)2/3​ law of the held at the Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam, two dimensional asymmetric simple exclusion process, October 9–20, 2006, funded in part by the Abus Sadam Ann. of Math. (2), 159 (2004), No. 1, 377–405. MR2052358 International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. (2005d:60156); 4. with L. Erdös and B. Schlein, Deriva- A major goal of this event was to encourage mathematical tion of the cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation from research in underdeveloped countries. Taught one-week quantum dynamics of many-body systems, Invent. Math., mini-course on Polynomial Automorphism Groups at the 167 (2007), No. 3, 515–614. MR2276262 (2007m:81258); Hanoi conference mentioned above, and gave an Invited 5. with L. Erdös and B. Schlein, Derivation of the Gross- Address; Served on panel with H. Bass (Michigan) and Pitaevskii equation for the dynamics of Bose-Einstein S. Abhyankar (Purdue) fielding questions by members condensate, to appear in Ann. of Math. of the Vietnamese Mathematical Society on the role of mathematics in the 21st century, on October 18, 2006, in Nominating Committee Hanoi, Vietnam. Irene Fonseca Selected Publications: 1. with H. Bass and E. H. Connell, Mellon College of Science Profes- Locally polynomial algebras are symmetric algebras, In- sor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mel- vent. Math., 38 (1976/77), No. 3, 279–299. MR0432626 lon University. (55 #5613); 2. Two dimensional Cremona groups acting Born: on simplicial complexes, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 331 July 10, 1956, Lisbon, Por- (1992), No. 1, 281–300. MR1038019 (92g:14008); 3. Affine tugal. Ph.D.: surfaces fibered by affine lines over the projective line, University of Minnesota Illinois J. Math., 41 (1997), No. 4, 589–605. MR1468868 (Minneapolis), 1985. AMS Offices: (98j:14015); 4. with E. Hubbers, Triangular factorizations AMS Council, 2001– of special polynomial automorphisms, J. Algebra, 235 2004. AMS Committees: (2001), No. 2, 459–483. MR1805468 (2002d:14100); 5. Subcommittee The Jacobian conjecture as a problem in combinatorics, to Review the Society’s Co-spon- in Affine Algebraic Geometry, Osaka Univ. Press, Osaka, sorship of Meetings and Confer- 2007, pp. 483–503. MR2330486. ences of Other Organizations and the Society’s Conference Statement: The AMS is the primary arm for the advocacy Program in 2001– 2002; Committee on Meetings and Con- of mathematics in the United States (and elsewhere). Like ferences, 2001–2003; Subcommittee of the AMS Council most mathematicians I stand convinced that our discipline to consider the possibility of an AMS Fellows Program, must be more fully supported at the level of fundamental 2002–2003. Selected Addresses: research, advanced at all levels of education, more inte- Plenary Talk, SIAM Conference on grated with the fabric of other disciplines, and promoted Emerging Issues in Mathematics and Computation from amongst the general population. It is toward these ends the Materials Sciences, Pittsburgh, April 18–20, 1994; that I would be happy to serve as Member at Large. Invited Address, AMS Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 10–12, 1997; Invited Address, SIAM Annual Meeting, Uni- versity of Toronto, Canada, July 13–17, 1998; AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2006, SIAM Annual Meet- ing, Boston, MA, July, 2006; Plenary Talk, Conference on

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Calculus of Variations and PDEs: Challenges and Applica- 1997–1999; Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, tions, ICM 2006, Toledo, Spain, August 16–19, 2006. 1999–2002. Additional Information: Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship, Selected Publications: 1. with D. R. Morrison, Gorenstein 1981–1985; Grande Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant’Iago threefold singularities with small resolutions via invari- da Espada (Portuguese Decoration, Military Order of Saint ant theory for Weyl groups, J. Algebraic Geom., 1 (1992), James of the Sword), March 8, 1997; Mellon College of No. 3, 449–530. MR1158626 (93b:14030); 2. with P. Can- Science Professor of Mathematics (chair), 2003; Women of delas, X. de la Ossa, A. Font, and D. R. Morrison, Mirror Distinction Award in Math and Technology, 2004; Mem- symmetry for two parameter models. I, Nuclear Phys. B, ber: American Mathematical Society, Society for Natural 416 (1994), No. 2, 48–538. MR1274436 (95k:32020); 3. Philosophy, International Society for the Interaction of with A. Klemm and C. Vafa, Geometric engineering of Mechanics and Mathematics, SIAM, Sociedade Portuguesa quantum field theories, Nuclear Phys. B, 497 (1997), No. de Matemática 1-2, 173–195. MR1467889 (98h:81097); 4. with D. A. Cox, Selected Publications: 1. with Stefan Müller, -quasicon- Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry, Mathematical vexity, lower semicontinuity, and Young measures,A SIAM Surveys and Monographs, vol. 68, AMS, Providence, RI, J. Math. Anal., 30 (1999), No. 6, 1355–1390. MR1718306 1999. MR1677117 (2000d:14048); 5. Enumerative Geom- (2000j:49020); 2. with Gianni Dal Maso, Giovanni Leoni, etry and String Theory, Student Math. Library, vol. 32, AMS, and Massimiliano Morini, Higher-order quasiconvexity Providence, RI, 2006. reduces to quasiconvexity, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 171 Statement: For the past 120 years, the AMS has done (2004), No. 1, 55–81. MR2029531 (2005a:49003); 3. with important work, promoting mathematics and mathema- Giovanni Leoni and Jan Mal´y, Weak continuity and lower ticians in numerous ways. The Nominating Committee semicontinuity results for determinants, Arch. Ration. identifies talented and energetic mathematicians to serve Mech. Anal., 178 (2005), No. 3, 411–448. MR2196498 the Society in a correspondingly wide range of areas, (2006m:49020); 4. with N. Fusco, G. Leoni, and M. Morini, including publications, meetings, education, prizes, and Equilibrium configurations of epitaxially strained crystal- policy. If elected, I would strive to identify and then recruit line films: existence and regularity results, Arch. Ration. individuals who are particularly well-suited for each of Mech. Anal., 186 (2007), No. 3, 477–537. MR2350364; 5. the needed committees, to carry out the important work with Giovanni Leoni, Modern methods in the calculus of of the Society. variations: Lp​ spaces, Springer Monographs in Mathemat- ics. Springer, New York, 2007. MR2341508. Chawne M. Kimber Associate Professor of Mathemat- ics, Lafayette College, Easton, Sheldon H. Katz Pennsylvania. Professor and Chair, Department Born: January 12, 1971. of Mathematics, and Professor of Ph.D.: University of Florida, Physics, University of Illinois at 1999. Urbana-Champaign. Born: December 19, 1956, Brook- AMS Committees: Committee on lyn, New York, USA. the Profession, 2006–2009. Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1980. Selected Addresses: Special Ses- AMS Offices: Member at Large of sion on Commutative Algebra, the Council, 2005–2008. Joint Mathematics Meetings, San AMS Committees: Committee on Antonio, TX, January, 1999; Spe- the Profession, 2000–2003; AMS cial Session on the Structure and Representation of Fellows Program Subcommittee, Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings, AMS Southeastern 2002–2003; AMS Fellows Program Council Subcommit- Sectional Meeting, Gainesville, FL, March, 1999; Workshop tee, 2005–2006; Committee on Science Policy, 2006–2008 on Ordered Algebraic Structures, Vanderbilt University, (Chair, 2007–2008); Bulletin Editor Search Committee, Nashville, TN, March, 2000; Workshop on Ordered Al- 2007–2009. gebraic Structures, University of Florida, Gainesville, Selected Addresses: Seven AMS Special Sessions, 1986– FL, March, 2004; The Second Workshop on Diversity in 1994; AMS Summer Institute on Algebraic Geometry (2 Mathematics, Banff International Research Station, Banff, lectures), Santa Cruz, 1995; Harvard-MIT-Brandeis-North- Canada, July, 2007. eastern Colloquium, Cambridge, 1997; AMS Invited Ad- Additional Information: MAA Project NExT Fellow, 2000 dress, Chicago, 1998; IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (gold dot); Editorial Board Member and Meetings Coordina- (15 lectures), Park City, 2001. tor for Young Mathematicians’ Network, 2004–2006; Coor- Additional Information: Visiting Positions: IAS, 1982– ganizer of the North American Workshop on Diversity in 1983; University of Bayreuth, 1989; Duke University, Mathematics, Banff International Research Station, 2006; 1991–1992; Mittag-Leffler Institute, 1997; Editorial Boards: Coorganizer of the second workshop on Mathematics and Communications in Algebra, 1995–1999, Advances in Social Justice, Middlebury College, 2007. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2003–2008; Honors: Selected Publications: 1. with A. Hager, Some examples Southwestern Bell Professor, Oklahoma State University, of hyperarchimedean lattice-ordered groups, Fund. Math.,

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182 (2004), No. 2, 107–122. MR2100062 (2005g:06019); Statement: The charge of this committee, to which I am 2. with A. Hager and W. McGovern, Unique a​-closure for committed, is to seek high level energetic colleagues to some l​-groups of rational valued functions, Czechoslovak lead the Society, to represent the mathematics community, Math. J., 55 (130) (2005), No. 2, 409–421. MR2137147 and to respond to the challenges, of which we are all aware, (2006b:06018); 3. with A. Hager, Clean rings of continuous that the future is thrusting upon us. functions, Algebra Universalis, 56 (2007), No. 1, 77–92. MR2280440 (2007k:54025); 4. with A. Hager, Uniformly Ellen E. Kirkman hyperarchimedean lattice-ordered groups, Order, 24 Professor, Wake Forest Univer- (2007), No. 2, 121–131. MR236734. sity. Statement: In order for the AMS to continue to fulfill Born: July 28, 1948, Saint Paul, its broad mission and grow as an organization, the best Minnesota, USA. mathematicians who are willing and able should represent Ph.D.: Michigan State University, the Society; this state is only accomplished by composing 1975. diverse slates of strong candidates. If elected, I would AMS Committees: AMS Repre- consult widely in this process—via a range of networks sentative to the Joint AMS-ASA- of mathematicians—to contribute to the work of the com- IMS-MAA-SIAM Data Committee, mittee. 2000–2007 (Chair, 2003–2007); Southeastern Section Program David Kinderlehrer Committee, 2004–2006 (Chair, Professor, Carnegie Mellon Uni- 2005–2006). versity. Selected Addresses: Invited Hour Address, AMS Western Born: 1941, Allentown, Pennsyl- Section Meeting, University of Southern California, Los vania. Angeles, CA (1995); Department Colloquium, University of Ph.D.: University of California, Wisconsin, Madison, WI (1997); Invited Hour Address, MAA Berkeley, 1968. Southeastern Section Meeting, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (1997); Invited Address, “Workshop on Noncommutative AMS Committees: AMS repre- Algebraic Geometry”, Fudan University, Shanghai, China sentative to the U. S. National (2006); Special Session, Joint International Meeting of the Committee on Theoretical and AMS and the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, Zacatecas, Applied Mechanics, 2000–2003, Mexico (2007). 2005–2008. Additional Information: Sabbaticals: University of Leeds, Additional Information: Program England (1984), UCSD (1989–1990 and 1999), and MSRI coordinator, IMA Minneapolis, 1984–1985; Scientific (2000); Southeastern Section MAA Governor (2007–2009); Director Designate and Scientific Director, Army High EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) Program Performance Computing Research Center, University of Advisory Board (2008–); Editorial Board, Communications Minnesota, 1989–1990; Executive Committee, Center for in Algebra (2008–); Member: ASA, AWM, MAA. Nonlinear Analysis, 1991–present (Director, 1994–1998); Selected Publications: 1. with Edward Green and James Executive Committee, Carnegie Mellon Materials Research Kuzmanovich, Finitistic dimension of finite dimensional Science and Engineering Center, 1996–present; Editorial monomial algebras, J. Algebra, 136 (1991), No. 1, 37–50. Boards: Applied Mathematics and Optimization, ESAIM: MR1085118 (92a:16011); 2. with Claudio Procesi and Control, Optimisation, and Calculus of Variations, Asymp- Lance Small, A q-analog of the Virasoro algebra, Comm. totic Analysis, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Algebra, 22 (1994), No. 10, 3755–3774. MR1280096 Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, Discrete (96b:17016); 3. with Ian Musson and Donald Passman, and Continuous Dynamical Systems series B, Progress in Noetherian down-up algebras, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 127 Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications (1999), No. 11, 3161–3167. MR1610796 (2000b:16042); (book series). 4. with James Kuzmanovich, Fixed subrings of Noethe- Selected Publications: 1. with D. Heath and M. Kowalczyk, rian graded regular rings, J. Algebra, 288 (2005), no. 2, Discrete and continuous rachets: from coin toss to mo- 463–484. MR2146140 (2006b:16055); 5. with James Kuz- lecular motor, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Ser. B, 2.2 (2002), manovich and James Zhang, Rigidity of graded regular 153–167. MR1898134 (2003b:60017); 2. with I. Livshits, algebras, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. G. S. Rohrer, S. Ta’asan, and P. Yu, Mesoscale evolution of Statement: The AMS supports mathematics in many ways. the grain boundary character distribution, Recrystalliza- Its primary mission is supporting research through its tion and Grain Growth, Materials Science Forum, 467-470 meetings, publications, and prizes, but it plays other (2004), 1063–1068; 3. Added dimensions to grain growth, important roles in promoting education, governmental Nature, 446 (2007), 995–996; 4. with S. Hastings and J. B. support, and public awareness. Uncertain funding climates McLeod, Diffusion mediated transport in multiple state and tight job markets bring particular challenges. Hence systems, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 39 (2007/08), No. 4, 1208– it is important that the Nominating Committee identify 1230. MR2368900; 5. with K. Barmak, M. Emelianenko, talented, articulate, and energetic people who can repre- D. Golovaty, and S. Ta’asan, Towards a statistical theory of sent the diverse AMS membership as elected officers who texture evolution, to appear in SIAM J. Sci. Comp. contribute to all of these important tasks. If elected, I will

September 2008 Notices of the AMS 1011 From the AMS Secretary—Election Special Section work to find nominees who will strengthen mathematics Editorial Boards Committee and represent the broad spectrum of AMS members. David C. Dobson Professor, University of Utah. Peter B. Shalen Born: November 17, 1962, Salt Professor, Department of Math- Lake City, Utah, USA. ematics, Statistics, and Computer Ph.D.: Rice University, 1990. Science, University of Illinois at Selected Addresses: Organizer, Chicago. AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Born: July 23, 1946, New York, Conference: Mathematical model- NY, USA. ing of novel optical materials and Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1972. devices, Snowbird, Utah, 2005; In- AMS Committees: Transactions vited Speaker, IUTAM Symposium: and Memoirs Editorial Commit- Topological design optimization tee, 1992–2000 (Chair and Man- of structures, machines and mate- aging Editor, 1994–2000); Ad-hoc rials—status and perspectives, Rungstedgaard, Denmark, Committee to review the AMS 2005; Invited Mini-Symposium Speaker, SIAM Confer- book publication program (appointed by Committee on ence on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Mesa, Publications), 1998–1999 Arizona, 2007; Invited Speaker, International Conference Selected Addresses: J. Clarence Karcher Lectures in on Applied Mathematics: Modeling, Analysis and Com- Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, April, 1980; Invited putation, Hong Kong, 2008; Invited Speaker, Workshop one-hour address, AMS Regional Meeting, University of on Mathematical and Computational Challenges in PDE Wisconsin at Parkside, October, 1980; Invited 45-min- Eigenvalue Problems, Beijing, 2008. ute address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Additional Information: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow- Berkeley, CA, August, 1986; Fourth annual Zabrodsky ship, 1997–1999; Felix Klein Prize, European Mathematical lecture, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December, 1990; Society, 2000; Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Distinguished Lecture Series (three lectures), Technion-IIT, Mathematics. Haifa, December, 2000. Selected Publications: 1. with Avner Friedman, The Additional Information: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fel- time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a doubly periodic lowship for Basic Research, 1977–1979; University Scholar structure, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 166 (1992), No. 2, 507–528. award, University of Illinois, 1996; Affiliated Professor, MR1160941 (92m:78015); 2. with Steven J. Cox, Maximiz- University of Haifa, 2005–; A “Conference on 3-Manifold ing band gaps in two-dimensional photonic crystals, SIAM Topology in Honor of Peter Shalen’s 60th Birthday” was J. Appl. Math., 59 (1999), No. 6, 2108–2120. MR1709799 held at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Mon- (2000e:65065); 3. with Jayadeep Gopalakrishnan and Jo- treal, June, 2006. seph E. Pasicak, An efficient method for band structure Selected Publications: 1. with W. Jaco, Seifert fibered calculations in 3D photonic crystals, J. Comp. Phys., 161 spaces in 3-manifolds, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., 21 (1979), (2000), No. 2, 668–679. MR1764252 (2001a:78047); 4. No. 220. MR0539411 (81c:57010); 2. with M. Culler, with Gang Bao, On the scattering by a biperiodic structure, Varieties of group representations and splittings of 3- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 128 (2000), No. 9, 2715–2723. manifolds, Ann. of Math. (2), 117 (1983), No. 1, 109–146. MR1694448 (2000m:35051); 5. with Fadil Santosa, Opti- MR0683804 (84k:57005); 3. with J. Morgan, Degenerations mal localization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous of hyperbolic structures, I–III, Ann. of Math. (2), 120 (1984), medium, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 64 (2004), No. 3, 762–774. 401–476. MR0769158 (86f:57011); 127 (1988), 403–456 MR2068121 (2005d:35034). and 457–519. MR0932305 (89e:57010a), MR0942518 Michael T. Lacey (89e:57010b); 4. with M. Culler, C. Gordon and J. Luecke, Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Dehn surgery on knots, Ann. of Math. (2), 125 (1987), No. Institute of Technology. 2, 237–300. MR0881270 (88a:57026); 5. with J. Anderson, Born: September 26, 1959, Abilene, M. Culler and R. Canary, Free Kleinian groups and volumes Texas, USA. of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, J. Differential Geom., 43 (1996), Selected Addresses: Interna- No. 4, 738–782. MR1412683 (98c:57012). tional Congress of Mathemati- Statement: I have always felt that it’s important for cians, 1998; Plenary Address, AMS mathematicians to stick together. Over the long history Southeastern Meeting, Atlanta, of our discipline we have usually managed to function as GA, 1998; Fabes-Rivière Sympo- a community, and this has contributed to the enormous sium, University of Minnesota, impact of our work on the larger world. It would be great 2002; Schrödinger Institute, Vi- to have another opportunity to serve the mathematical enna, Austria, 2004; Pichorides community through the AMS. Lectures, University of Crete, Greece, 2006; Trijinsky Lectures, Urbana, IL, 2007. Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990; Salem Prize, 1997; Guggenheim Fellowship, 2004; Fulbright Fellowship, 2008; George Elliot Distinguished

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Visitor, Fields Institute, 2008; Editorial Boards: Proceedings Berlin, 2003. MR1960772 (2004c:12010); 4. with W. J. of the AMS, J. Geom. Anal., J. Anal. Comb. (online). Cook and C. Mitschi, On the constructive inverse problem Selected Publications: 1. with Christoph Thiele, Lp​ esti- in differential Galois theory, Comm. Algebra, 33 (2005), mates for the bilinear Hilbert transform, Proc. Nat. Acad. No. 10, 3639–3665. MR2175456 (2006j:34212); 5. with Sci., 94 (1997), No. 1, 33–35. MR1425870 (98e:44001); P. J. Cassidy, Galois theory of parameterized differential 2. with Christoph Thiele, On Calderón’s conjecture for equations and linear differential algebraic groups, in Dif- the bilinear Hilbert transform, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 95 ferential Equations and Quantum Groups, IRMA Lect. Math. (1998), No. 9, 4828–4830. MR1619285 (99e:42013); 3. with Theor. Phys., 9, Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich, 2007, pp. 113–155. Steve Hofmann and Alan McIntosh, The solution of the MR2322329 (2008f:12010). Kato problem for divergence form elliptic operators with Statement: If elected, I will work to find the people best quali- Gaussian heat kernel bounds, Ann. of Math. (2), 156 (2002), fied to serve on the editorial boards and to insure the high No. 2, 623–631. MR1933725 (2004c:47096b); 4. with Pascal standards and diverse goals of the AMS publications. Auscher, Steve Hofmann, Alan McIntosh and Ph. Tcham- Jack Xin itchian, The solution of the Kato square root problem for Professor of Mathematics, Univer- second order elliptic operators on Rn, Ann. of Math. (2), ​ sity of California at Irvine. 156 (2002), No. 2, 633–654. MR1933726 (2004c:47096); 5. Born: 1963, Beijing, China. with Sarah H. Ferguson, A characterization of product BMO Ph.D.: Courant Institute, New York by commutators, Acta Math., 189 (2002), No. 2, 143–160. University, 1990. MR1961195 (2004e:42026). Selected Addresses: Invited Ad- Statement: As a current editor of the Proceedings, I have dress, International Congress of been impressed by the breadth of submissions and world- Chinese Mathematicians, 2001, wide stature that the AMS publications hold. The editors of 2004, 2007; Invited Address, AMS the AMS publications play an essential role in maintaining meeting, Lincoln, Nebraska, Octo- and building upon the important role of AMS publica- ber, 2005; Invited SIAM session, tions in the discipline. I will take seriously the charge of Joint Mathematics Meetings, San this committee, to identify and nominate editors for AMS Diego, January, 2008. publications. Additional Information: Kurt O. Michael F. Singer Friedrichs Prize, Courant Institute, 1991; NFR Fellow, In- Professor of Mathematics, North stitut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden, 1994; ESI Fastbreaking Paper Carolina State University. Author in Mathematics, 2002; John Simon Guggenheim Born: February 25, 1950, New York Fellow, 2004. Editorial Boards: Communications in Math- City, New York, USA. ematical Sciences, 2003–, Dynamics of Partial Differential Ph.D.: University of California, Equations, 2004–, Multiscale Modeling and Simulations, Berkeley, 1974. SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006–. AMS Offices: Member at Large of Selected Publications: 1. Front propagation in hetero- the Council, 2005–2008. geneous media, SIAM Rev., 42 (2000), No. 2, 161–230. AMS Committees: Committee on MR1778352 (2001i:35184); 2. Modeling light bullets with Committees, 2005–2007; Commit- the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation, Phys. D., 135 tee on Science Policy, 2005–2007. (2000), No. 3-4, 345–368. MR1731506 (2000i:78042); 3. Selected Addresses: Invited Ad- with Y. S. Kim and Y.-Y. Qi, A study of hearing aid gain dress, AMS Sectional Meeting, New York, 1996; Plenary Lec- functions based on a nonlinear nonlocal feedforward ture, International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic cochlea model, Hearing Research, 215 (May 2006), Is- Computation, Vancouver, 1999; Invited Address, Interna- sues 1-2, 84–96; 4. with J. Nolen, A variational prin- tional Society for Analysis, Applications and Computing ciple for KPP front speeds in temporally random shear Conference, Berlin, 2001; Invited Address, Foundations of flows, Comm. Math. Phys., 269 (2007), No. 2, 493–532. Computational Mathematics, Minneapolis, 2002; Invited MR2274555 (2007k:35237); 5. with J. Liu and Y.-Y. Qi, Lecture, London Mathematical Society, Edinburgh, 2006. A dynamic algorithm for blind separation of convolutive Additional Information: Editorial Boards: Journal of sound mixtures, Neurocomputing (2008), doi:10.1016/ Symbolic Computation, Algorithms and Computation in j.neucom.2007.12.010. Mathematics, Journal of Algebra and Number Theory; Statement: Publication of AMS journals and book series Associate Editor, Applicable Algebra in Eng., Commun. is essential for communicating the rapidly evolving and Comput. mathematics and its applications to mathematicians, Selected Publications: 1. Liouvillian first integrals of dif- scientists and the general public. The editorial boards of ferential equations, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 333 (1992), AMS serve to maintain the standards of excellence and No. 2, 673–688. MR1062869 (92m:12014); 2. with M. van the broad impact of mathematics. As a member of the der Put, Galois Theory of Difference Equations, Lecture Editorial Boards Committee, I shall work closely with the Notes in Mathematics, 1666, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997. editors to identify and select individuals with expertise to MR1480919 (2000e:39008); 3. with M. van der Put, Galois best carry out the missions of AMS journals and promote Theory of Linear Differential Equations. Grundlehren der mathematical development in emerging areas of health, Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 328, Springer-Verlag, science and technology.

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