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The 2015 Noticesindex The 2015 Notices Index January issue: 1–112 May issue: 465–608 October issue: 1025–1168 February issue: 113–216 June/July issue: 609–736 November issue: 1169–1304 March issue: 217–320 August issue: 737–872 December issue: 1305–1448 April issue: 321–464 September issue: 873–1024 AMS-AAAS Mass Media Summer Fellowships, 1224, 1383 Index Section Page Number AMS Centennial Fellowship, 1224 AMS Congressional Fellow Chosen, 969 The AMS 1429 AMS Congressional Fellowship, 1224 Announcements 1430 AMS Department Chairs Workshop, 1227 Articles 1430 AMS Email Support for Frequently Asked Questions, 179 Authors 1431 AMS Epsilon Fund, 1225 Deaths of Members of the Society 1433 AMS Hosts Congressional Briefing, 438 Grants, Fellowships, Opportunities 1435 AMS Hosts Department Chairs Workshop, 438 Letters to the Editor 1436 Meetings Information 1437 AMS Joins Effort in a Call to Action for American “Innova- New Publications Offered by the AMS 1437 tion Imperative”, 1216 Obituaries 1437 AMS Menger Awards at the 2015 ISEF, 960 Opinion 1437 AMS Scholarships for “Math in Moscow”, 828 Prizes and Awards 1437 AMS Short Course in Seattle, WA, 1106 Prizewinners 1440 AMS-Simons Travel Grants Program, 65 Reference and Book List 1445 AMS Sponsors Exhibit on Capitol Hill, 969 Reviews 1446 Bylaws of the American Mathematical Society, 1235 Surveys 1446 Call for Nominations for 2016 Leroy P. Steele Prizes, 184, 284 Tables of Contents 1446 Call for Nominations for 2016 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory, 222, 326, 540 About the Cover Call for Nominations for 2016 Frank and Brennie Morgan AMS-MAA-SIAM Pize, 386, 543 38, 147, 258, 449, 542, 659, 822, 967, 1065, 1207, 1388 Call for Nominations for Exemplary Program Award, 394, The AMS 515 Call for Nominations for Mathematics Programs That Make 2015–2016 AMS Centennial Fellowship Awarded, 674 a Difference, 372, 551 2014 AMS Election—Nominations by Petition, 182 Call for Nominations for the Award for Impact on the 2014 Election Results, 181 Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, 963 2015 AMS–AAAS Mass Media Fellow Chosen, 969 Call for Nominations for the David P. Robbins Prize, Os- 2015 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in wald Veblen Prize in Geometry, and the Norbert Wiener a Mathematics Department, 544 Prize in Applied Mathematics, 399, 525 2015 Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Call for Nominations for the Distinguished Public Service Mathematics, 541 Award, E. H. Moore Research Article Prize, and the 2015 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, 285 Levi L. Conant Prize, 398, 524 2016 AMS Elections: Call for Suggestions, 1105, 1272 Call for Proposals for the 2017 AMS Short Courses, 1084 2016 Class of Fellows of the AMS Selected, 1216 Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 1381 American Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowship, Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture, 684 963, 1224 Fan China Exchange Program Awardees, 684 American Mathematical Society—Contributors, 574 Free Grant-Writing Workshop Offered, 1227 DECEMBER 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1429 2015 Index Freiberger Retires from QAM after 50 Years, 433 In Memory of Jacob Schwartz (Sal Anastasio, Ronald G. From the AMS Public Awareness Office, 179, 438, 569, 684, Douglas, Ciprian Foias, Wai-Mee Ching, Martin Davis, 833, 970, 1082, 1216, 1382 Micha Scharir, Michael Wigler, Joseph A. Fisher, Peter D. General Information Regarding Meetings & Conferences Lax, Louis Nirenberg, Paul M. Willig, Horacio Porta), 473 of the AMS, 91, 200 Interview with Edward Witten (Hirosi Ooguri), 491 Governance of the Society 2015, 673 Investigating and Improving Undergraduate Proof Com- Managing the Math Deluge: A Conversation with Edward prehension (Lara Alcock, Mark Hodds, Somali Roy, Dunne, 522 Matthew Inglis), 742 Mathematics Awareness Month in 2015: Math Drives Is There a Curse of the Fields Medal? (János Kollár), 21 Careers, 281 Joram Lindenstrauss, in Memoriam (William B. Johnson, Mathematics Research Communities 2016, 1228 Gideon Schechtman), 26 Math in Moscow Scholarships Awarded, 68, 436, 833 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Water Entry of an Air- (A) Photographic Look at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, liner (Goong Chen, Cong Gu, Philip J. Morris, Eric G. San Antonio, 2015, 362; Photo key, 422 Paterson, Alexey Sergeev, Yi-Ching Wang, and Tomasz Project NExT Fellows Chosen, 1382 Program Announcements, 1143 Wierzbicki, 330 Program Timetable, 1155 Mathematical Biology is Good for Mathematics (Mi Report of the AMS Treasurer (2014), 1049 chael C. Reed), 1172 Report of the Executive Directory, State of the AMS, 2014, Mathematical Research in High School: The PRIMES Experi- 1357 ence (Pavel Etingof, Slava Gerovitch, Tanya Khovanova), Report on 2013–2014 Academic Recruitment and Hiring, 910 533 Mathematics and Teaching (Hyman Bass), 630 Seattle City Map, 1146 Mathematics in Kenya (Tom Denton), 754 Seattle Hotel Accommodations, 1143, 1304, 1447 (A) Medieval Mystery: Nicole Oresme's Concept of Curvitas Seattle Meeting Registration Forms, 1167, 1303, 1448 (Isabel M. Serrano, Bogdan D. Suceavˇa), 1030 Special Section—2015 American Mathematical Society Memories of Mary Ellen Rudin (Georgia Benkart, Mirna Elections, 931 Dˇzamonja, Judith Roitman, István Juhász, William Statistics on Women Mathematicians, Compiled by the Fleissner, Franklin Tall, Peter Nyikos, Kenneth Kunen, AMS, 1055 Arnold Miller), 617 Voting Information for 2015 AMS Election, 782 (The) Method of Archimedes: Propositions 13 and 14 (Shir- ley B. Gray, Daniel Ye Ding, Gustavo Gordillo, Samuel Announcements Landsberger, Cye Waldman), 1036 Committee on Women and Mathematics of the IMU, 968 (The) Myth and the Medal (Michael J. Barany), 15 Departments Coordinate Job Offer Deadlines, 1381 Professional Development in Teaching for Mathematics Hambleton Appointed New Directory of Fields Institute, Graduate Students (Jessica M. Deshler, Shandy Hauk, 832 Natasha Speer), 638 Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2017, 1046 Puzzling the 120–Cell (Saul Schleimer, Henry Segerman), 1309 Articles Reflections on Paul Erdo˝s on His Birth Centenary Pt. I — Features (Krishnaswami Alladi, Steven G. Krantz), 121 Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name Reflections on Paul Erdo˝s on His Birth Centenary, Pt. II (Pierre Cartier), 373 (Krishnaswami Alladi, Steven G. Krantz), 226 David Rittenhouse: Modern Mathematician (David E. Zi- Response to the Elizabeth Green Article (Mark Saul, Hyman tarelli), 11 Bass, Hung-Hsi Wu, Bill Jacob, Wayne Bishop, Roger (The) Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics Howe, Guershon Harel), 508 (Gunnar Fløystad), 364 Seven Characteristics of Successful Calculus Programs Fruit Flies and Moduli: Interactions between Biology and (David Bressoud, Chris Rasmussen), 144 Mathematics (Ezra Miller), 1178 To the Memory of Lars Hörmander (1931–2012) (Jan Gauss's Hidden Menagerie: From Cyclotomy to Super- Boman, Ragnar Sigurdsson, Nicolas Lerner, Jean-Pierre characters (Stephan Ramon Garcia, Trevor Hyde, Bob Demailly, Michael Atiyah, François Treves, Sigurdur Lutz), 878 Helgason, Gerd Grubb, Jean-Michel Bony, Christer O. Geometry of Data and Biology (Mauro Maggioni), 1185 Kiselman, Sofia Broström), 890 Herbert S. Wilf (1931–2012) (Fan Chung, Curtis Greene, William B. Arveson: A Tribute (Daniel Markiewicz, Palle E. Joan Hutchinson, Donald E. Knuth, Aviezri S. Fraenkel, T. Jorgensen, Kenneth R. Davidson, Ronald G. Douglas, Doron Zeilberger, Marko Petkovˇ sek, Neil Calkin, Rodney Edward G. Effros, Richard V. Kadison, Marcelo Laca, Canfield, Albert Nijenhuis, Carla D. Savage, Richart P. Paul S. Muhly, David R. Pitts, Robert T. Powers, Geof- Stanley, Felix Lazebnik), 346 frey L. Price, Donald E. Sarason, Erling Størmer, Lee Ann In Memory of Arthur Strong Wightman (Barry Simon), 249 Kaskutas), 761 1430 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 11 2015 Index William P. Thurston, 1946–2012 (David Gabai, Steve MAA Awards Given in San Antonio, 552 Kerckhoff, André Haefliger, David Epstein, Dennis P. Managing the Math Deluge: A Conversation with Edward Sullivan), 1318 Dunne (Allyn Jackson), 522 (The) Work of the 2014 Fields Medalists (Welington de Mathematicians Discuss the Snowden Revelations: Crypto- Melo, Bjorn Poonen, Jeremy Quastel, Anton Zorich), graphic Standards, Mass Surveillance, and the NSA (Bart 1334 Preneel), 400 — Communications (The) Mathematics Community and the NSA: Encryption and the NSA Role in International Standards (Michael Wertheimer), 2014–2015 Faculty Salaries Report (William Yslas Vélez, 165 James W. Maxwell, and Colleen A. Rose), 644 (The) Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Under- 2015 AMS-SIAM Birkhoff Prize, 423 graduate Turns Twenty (Joseph A. Gallian), 395 2015 Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement Nash and Nirenberg Awarded 2015 Abel Prize, 670 in a Mathematics Department, 544 (The) Nesin Mathematics Village in Turkey (Krishnaswami 2015 Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Alladi, Gabriela Asli Rino Nesin), 652 Mathematics, 541 Nothing Fancy: Focus and Commitment Earn National 2015 Cole Prize in Algebra, 425 Award for Iowa State (Allyn Jackson), 545 2015 Conant Prize, 427 On the Genesis of the Woods Hole Fixed Point Theorem 2015 JPBM Communications Award, 550 (Loring W. Tu), 1200 2015 Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference, 560 Paying Tribute to James Eells and Joseph H. Sampson 2015 Morgan Prize, 421 (Yuan-Jen Chiang, Andrea Ratto), 388 2015 Satter Prize, 429 (A) Photographic Look at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2015 Steele Prizes, 416 San Antonio, 2015, 362; Photo key, 422 2015 Whiteman Prize, 431 Presidential Views: Interview with David Vogan
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