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Biographical information about the candidates has been ver- Vice-President ified by the candidates, although in a few instances prior travel arrangements of the candidate at the time of as- H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. sembly of the information made communication difficult Distinguished Professor, State or impossible. A candidate had the opportunity to make a University of New York at Stony Brook. statement of not more than 200 words on any subject Born: January 4, 1942, Nor- matter without restriction and to list up to five of her or ristown, Pennsylvania. his research papers. Ph.D.: Stanford University, Abbreviations: American Association for the Advance- 1968. ment of Science (AAAS); American Mathematical Society AMS Offices: Member-at- (AMS); American Statistical Association (ASA); Association Large of the Council, for Computing Machinery (ACM); Association for Symbolic 1987–1989. Logic (ASL); Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM); AMS Committees: Commit- Canadian Mathematical Society, Société Mathématique du tee on Steele Prizes, 1978–1980; Organizing Com- Canada (CMS); Conference Board of the Mathematical Sci- mittee, 1984 Summer Insti- ences (CBMS); Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS); tute on Measure Theory; Committee on Summer Institutes International Mathematical Union (IMU); London Mathe- and Special Symposia, 1985–1986; Journal of the Ameri- matical Society (LMS); Mathematical Association of Amer- can Mathematical Society Editorial Committee, 1986–1994. ica (MAA); National Academy of Sciences (NAS); National Selected Addresses: Invited Address, Las Vegas, January Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC); 1972; International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancou- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Na- ver, August 1974; Principal Speaker, AMS Regional Con- tional Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM); Na- ference on Foliations, 1974; Marston Morse Memorial Lec- turer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1981; tional Science Foundation (NSF); Operations Research So- Principal Lecturer, DD2 Symposium, Shanghai and Hefei, ciety of America (ORSA); Society for Industrial and Applied 1981; M. B. Porter Lecturer, Rice University, 1982; Princi- Mathematics (SIAM); The Institute of Management Sciences pal Speaker, AMS Regional Conference on Gauge Field The- (TIMS). ory, 1983; Mathematical Society of Denmark, 1983; Math- Each candidate had the opportunity to supply a photo- ematical Society of Switzerland, 1984; Bourbaki Seminar, graph to accompany his or her biographical information. Paris, 1984; College of Science Lecturer, Notre Dame, 1986;
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Canadian Mathematical Society, 1986; Hermann Weyl Sym- A second important problem concerns the support for in- posium, 1987; Rufus Bowen Lecturer, Berkeley, 1987; dividual researchers. In the enthusiasm for institutes and Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures, Rutgers, 1988; do joint ventures with other disciplines, the support for basic Carmo Symposium, IMPA, 1988; René Thom Symposium, mathematical research is being badly eroded. I feel that this Paris, 1988; Principal Lecturer, AMS Summer Institutes: issue needs serious attention. Differential Geometry, 1973, Several Complex Variables, 1975, and Geometric Measure Theory, 1984; The Bruce Ruth J. Williams Reinhart Memorial Symposium, Maryland, 1989; The Ger- Professor of Mathematics, Uni- gen Memorial Lectures, Duke University, 1990; The versity of California, San Rademacher Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 1991; Diego. The Hardy Lecturer, London Mathematical Society, 1991; Born: March 7, 1955, Mel- International Congress of Mathematicians, 1994; Aisen- bourne, Australia. stadt Lecturer, CRM, Montreal, 1995. Ph.D.: Stanford University, Additional Information: Sloan Research Fellow, 1970–1973; 1983. Leroy P. Steele Prize (AMS), 1975; Guggenheim Fellow, AMS Offices: Member-at- 1983–1984; Fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Sci- Large of the Council, ences, Kyoto, 1986; Hardy Lecturer, London Mathematical 1991–1993. Society, 1991; Aisenstadt Chair, CRM, Montreal, 1995; Na- AMS Committees: Western tional Academy of Sciences, 1995; Chairman, National Section Program Committee, Committee for Mathematics; Trustee, Mathematical Sci- 1993–1994 (chair, 1994); Pol- ences Research Institute; Editor: Journal of Differential icy Committee on Meetings and Conferences, 1993– ; Bul- Geometry ; Topology ; Associate Editor: Annals of Mathe- letin Editorial Committee (Associate Editor for Book Re- matics, Princeton Mathematical Series, Pitman Mathemat- views), 1995–1997; Committee on Summer Institutes and ical Series; Organizer of mathematical meetings: Summer Special Symposia, 1996– . Institute in Differential Geometry; JDG Meeting: “Surveys Selected Addresses: MAA Invited Address, Phoenix, Jan- in Geometry”, Harvard University; Geometry Festivals at uary 1989; Invited Address, International Conference on Stony Brook; MSRI Workshop in Geometry; International Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Israel, June Meeting on the Dirac Operator, Luminy; Milnor Sympo- 1991; AMS Summer Institute on Stochastic Analysis, Ithaca, sium at Stony Brook; Organizer of year-long program in July 1993; AMS Invited Address, Cincinnati, January 1994; Geometry, MSRI, 1993–1994; Committees of The Interna- Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Special Invited Paper, tional Congresses of Mathematicians, 1985, 1989, 1993; Chapel Hill, June 1994. Codirector, U.S.-Brazilian Mathematical Exchange Program, Additional Information: NSF Presidential Young Investi- 1982–1992. gator, 1987–1993; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 3 Selected Publications: 1. Complete minimal surfaces in S , 1988–1992; Associate Editor: Annals of Probability, Ann. of Math. 92 (1970), 335–374. MR 42 #5170; 2. Codi- 1988–1996; Electronic Journal of Probability and Electronic mension-one foliations of spheres, Ann. of Math. 94 (1971), Communications in Probability, 1995– ; SIAM Journal on Ap- 494–503. MR 44 #4774; 3. with F. R. Harvey, On boundaries plied Mathematics, 1996– . Bernoulli Society Advisory Com- of complex analytic varieties, I., Ann. of Math. 102 (1975), mittee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes and Their 223–290. MR 54 #13130; 4. with F. R. Harvey, On bound- Applications, 1989– ; Institute of Mathematical Statistics: aries of complex analytic varieties, II., Ann of Math. 106 Fellow, 1992; Nominating Committee, 1994; Committee (1977), 213–238. MR 58 #17186; 5. with M. Gromov, The on Fellows, 1994–1997; Fellow, AAAS, 1995. classification of simply connected manifolds of positive Selected Publications: 1. with K. L. Chung, Introduction to scalar curvature, Ann. of Math. 111 (1980), 423–434. MR stochastic integration, first ed., Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, 81h:53036; 6. Algebraic cycles and homotopy theory, Ann. MA, 1983. MR 85g:60062 (translated into Russian, 1987; of Math. 129 (1989), 253–291. MR 90h:14008; 7. with M.- second ed., 1990); 2. with S. R. S. Varadhan, Brownian mo- L. Michelsohn, Spin geometry, Princeton University Press, tion in a wedge with oblique reflection, Comm. Pure Appl. Princeton, NJ, 1989. MR 91g:53001. Math. 38 (1985), 405–443. MR 87c:60066; 3. Reflected Statement: The primary concern of the AMS is the foster- Brownian motion with skew symmetric data in a polyhedral ing of mathematical research and the care of the people domain, Probab. Theory Related Fields 75 (1987), 459–485. engaged in this enterprise. There are several serious issues MR 88g:60198; 4. with E. Pardoux, Symmetric reflected dif- facing our community that need to be addressed in an ef- fusions, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 30 (1994), fective way. 13–62. MR 95h:60117; 5. with J. M. Harrison, A multiclass The first concerns career opportunities for young mathe- closed queueing network with unconventional heavy traf- maticians. Widespread downsizing in the academic com- fic behavior, Ann. Appl. Probab., to appear. munity and the unusually large influx of mathematicians Statement: The AMS plays a fundamental role in encour- from abroad over the last decade has created a staggering aging quality research and teaching of mathematics through shortage of standard tenure-track positions. The Society its publications and meetings. While maintaining excel- can be even more aggressive in identifying career possib- lence and seeking broad representation of its membership lities and promoting contacts. in these core activities, the Society needs to address a
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number of serious challenges to the profession. Most no- and the troubles of the current job market constitute one table are those concerning the decline in federal research of the most obvious symptoms. funding, shortages of academic jobs, the nature of math- Many university administrators are now under pressure to ematics education, and a lack of public awareness of the replace tenured professors by “teaching slaves” with high central role that mathematics plays in modern science and teaching loads and temporary employment. Mathematics technology. is particularly at risk, because service courses constitute The Society already has efforts under way to address these a primary part of the teaching within our departments. challenges, but more could be done to broaden the un- The mathematical community must react vigorously to derstanding and appreciation that the general public and these threats. We have to convince the public that ele- elected officials have of mathematics and its applications, mentary mathematics is not just a list of algorithms which to streamline the academic job application and evaluation could be taught by anybody and that research in pure and process via the use of electronic media, to provide infor- applied mathematics should be important to society. But mation on employment outside academia, to increase in- we may also have to adapt to this changing environment, teraction with other scientists and engineers who have an for instance, through curriculum revisions and contacts out- increasing need for mathematics and who generate natural side of our traditional niche in academia. The AMS and its problems for mathematics research, to utilize electronic sister organizations are natural forums for reflection and media for publication, and to investigate creative uses of action. technology in the classroom. Of course, the AMS should also continue to be a catalyst for mathematical research and maintain its goal of mak- Member-at-Large of the Council ing academia more welcoming to underrepresented mi- norities and women. Francis Bonahon Professor of Mathematics, William G. Dwyer University of Southern Cali- Hank Family Professor of fornia, Los Angeles. Mathematics, University of Born: September 9, 1955, Notre Dame. Tarbes, France. Born: December 7, 1947, Jer- Ph.D.: Thèse d’Etat, Univer- sey City, New Jersey. sité de Paris-Sud, Orsay, Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute France, 1985. of Technology, 1973. Selected Addresses: Geom- AMS Committees: Bulletin etry Festival, University of (New Series) Editorial Com- Pennsylvania, 1987; Invited mittee (Associate Editor, Re- Address, Claremont, No- search Announcements), vember 1988; International 1991–1993. Congress of Mathematicians, Selected Addresses: Invited Kyoto, Japan, 1990; Plenary Address, Kent, April 1987; Ho- Address, Middle West Geometry Conference, Washington motopy Theory Conference, University, 1995; Texas Topology and Geometry Conference, San Feliu, 1994; Warsaw Summer School in Algebraic Topol- University of Texas at Austin, 1995. ogy, 1994; Homotopy Theory Conference, Gargnano, 1995; Additional Information: Bronze Medal, Centre National de Hour Talk, Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical la Recherche Scientifique, 1985; Sloan Foundation Fellow, Society, 1995. 1987–1989; NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1989–1994; Raubenheimer Award for Teaching, Service Additional Information: Member, Institute for Advanced and Research, University of Southern California, 1994. Study, 1975–1976; Sloan Fellow, 1981–1983; Member: AMS, Selected Publications: 1. Cobordism of automorphisms of MAA, SIAM. surfaces, Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. 16 (1983), 237–270. MR Selected Publications: 1. Tame homotopy theory, Topol- 85j:57011; 2. Bouts des variétés hyperboliques de dimen- ogy 18 (1979), 321–338. MR 81a:55020; 2. Twisted homo- sion 3, Ann. of Math. 124 (1986), 71–158. MR 88c:57013; logical stability for general linear groups, Ann. of Math. 111 3. with L. C. Siebenmann, The characteristic toric splitting (1980), 239–251. MR 81b:18006; 3. with D. M. Kan, Simpli- of irreducible compact 3-orbifolds, Math. Ann. 278 (1987), cial localization of categories, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 17 441–479. MR 90a:57017; 4. The geometry of Teichmüller (1980), 267–284. MR 81h:55018; 4. with E. M. Friedlander, space via geodesic currents, Invent. Math. 92 (1988), Algebraic and etale K-theory, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 292 139–162. MR 90a:32025; 5. Earthquakes on Riemann sur- (1985), 247–280. MR 87h:18013; 5. with C. W. Wilkerson, faces and on measured geodesic laminations, Trans. Amer. Homotopy fixed point methods for Lie groups and finite loop Math. Soc. 330 (1992), 69–95. MR 92f:57021. spaces, Ann. of Math. 139 (1994), 395–442. MR 95e:55019. Statement: Academic institutions in the U. S. are set to face Statement: The main purpose of the AMS is to encourage financial difficulties with decreasing support from both the and support mathematical research, particularly by dis- public and the government. The dwindling research fund- seminating information, creating opportunities for math- ing of the recent past was a precursor to these problems, ematicians to communicate with one another, and pro-
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viding a public forum for discussion of professional con- Peter A. Perry cerns. Professor, University of Ken- tucky Frederick P. Gardiner Born: May 4, 1956, Evanston, Professor, Brooklyn College, Illinois. City University of New York Ph.D.: Princeton University, Born: July 1, 1939, New York, 1982. New York. AMS Committees: South- Ph.D.: Columbia University, eastern Section Program Com- 1967. mittee, 1995–1996 (chair, Selected Addresses: Stony 1996). Brook Conference on Riemann Selected Addresses: Work- Surfaces and Related Topics, shop on Spectral and Scatter- 1978; U. S.-Japanese Confer- ing Theory for Partial Differ- ence on Kleinian Groups, East- ential Equations in honor of West Center, Honolulu, Janu- Shmuel Agmon, June 1990; ary 1979; Special Session on International Conference on Mathematical Quantum The- Kleinian Groups, Philadelphia, ory, Vancouver, 1993; Colloque St. Jean-de-Monts, 1994; April 1980; AMS Summer Re- CBMS Conference on Spectral Geometry, 1996. search Conference on Kleinian Groups, Boulder, August Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant 1983; Special Session on Geometric Function Theory, Institute, 1981–1982; Bantrell Fellow in Mathematical Worcester, April 1985; Special Session on Geometric Struc- Physics, Caltech, 1982–1985; Fulbright Fellow, University tures on Manifolds and Kleinian Groups, Denton, October of Oslo, Fall 1993; Member: AMS, MAA, SIAM. 1986; XIV Rolf Nevanlinna Colloquium, Helsinki, June 1990; Selected Publications: 1. with I. Sigal and B. Simon, Spec- Visitor, Institute des Hautes Études Scientifique, June and tral analysis of N-body Schrödinger operators, Ann. Math. July 1991, 1993, and 1995; Symposium on Hyperbolic 114 (1981), 519–567. MR 83b:81129; 2. with R. Froese and Geometry, University of Warwick, January 1993; Organizer, P. Hislop, The Laplace operator on a hyperbolic manifold Special Session on Teichmüller Theory and Dynamical Sys- with cusps of non-maximal rank, Invent. Math. 106 (1991), tems, Brooklyn, April 1994; Workshop at Special Year on 295–333. MR 93b:11065; 3.The Selberg zeta function and Hyperbolic Geometry, MSRI, May 1995; Meeting in honor scattering poles for Kleinian groups, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. of Clifford Earle’s 60th Birthday, Smith College, November (N. S.) 24 (1991), 327–333. MR 92d:58213; 4. with R. Brooks 1995. and P. Petersen, Spectral geometry in dimension 3, Acta. Additional Information: Deputy Executive Officer, Grad- Math. 173 (1994), 283–305. MR 96e:58154. uate School and University Center of City University of New Statement: In order to advance our profession and provide York, September 1994– . meaningful employment opportunities for our graduate stu- Selected Publications: 1. Teichmüller theory and qua- dents, American mathematics departments, particularly dratic differentials, Pure and Applied Mathematics, A Wiley- those below the very top level, need to refocus research and Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, graduate education. To broaden our students’ job oppor- 1987. MR 88m:32044; 2. with Dennis Sullivan, Symmetric tunities, attract external funding, and enjoy the support of structures on a closed curve, American J. Math. 114 (1992), our colleagues within the university community and of 683–736. MR 95h:30020; 3. On Teichmüller contraction, the public at large, we must pursue interdisciplinary col- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 118 (1993), 865–875. MR 93i:30036; laboration and interaction with other scientists and with 4. with Dennis Sullivan, Lacunary series as quadratic dif- industry. ferentials in conformal dynamics, The Mathematical Legacy On the other hand, we need to do so in a way that does not of Wilhelm Magnus: Groups, Geometry and Special Func- sacrifice the integrity of our discipline or devalue pure tions (Brooklyn, NY, 1992), pp. 307–330, Contemp. Math., mathematics. I hope to have the opportunity to explore vol. 169, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994. MR these issues with informed colleagues, facilitate such 95g:58189; 5. Infinitesimal bending and twisting in one-di- changes, and represent the concerns of research universi- mensional dynamics, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 (1995), ties at the Council level. 915–937. MR 95e:30024. Statement: The AMS should promote (1) the interaction of Gail Ratcliff mathematical ideas and technique with all branches of sci- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Com- ence and technology, (2) the improvement of relations be- puter Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis tween the mathematical research community and the pub- Born: May 12, 1956, Sydney, Australia. lic, (3) an increase of public funding of research and Ph.D.: Yale University, 1983. education at the state and national level, (4) the support AMS Committees: Central Section Program Committee, of and encouragement for participation in mathematics by 1996– . underrepresented groups, and (5) publicity about the alarm- Selected Addresses: Special Session on Analysis on Lie ing number of mathematics and science courses taught at Groups and Homogeneous Spaces, Burlington, Vermont, Au- the university level by poorly paid adjunct teachers. gust 1995; Special Session on Representation Theory and
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Harmonic Analysis of Topo- petition Committee, 1980; Ford Award, 1984; Brain Bogglers logical Groups (co-organizer), (as Maxwell Carver), Discover, 1987–1989; Polya Prize Com- Orlando, Florida, January mittee, 1990; NAS Exchange Fellow, Budapest, 1976–1977, 1996. and (with IREX), 1984; Extended Visits: Budapest, Additional Information: MAA 1976–1977, 1984; Weizmann Institute (Israel), 1980; Uni- Subcommittee for the U.S. versity of Reading (U.K.), 1981; Massachusetts Institute of Mathematical Olympiad, Technology, 1987, 1990; Institute for Mathematics and its 1991–1993; Department Applications, 1993. Co-founder and co-editor-in-chief: Ran- Chair, 1991–1994; Panelist at dom Structures and Algorithms, 1990–; Associate Editor: the AWM workshop, San Fran- Combinatorica, 1979–; The American Mathematical Monthly, cisco, January 1995; Consul- 1986–1991; SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, tant for Project NExT, 1987–1995; Discrete Mathematics, 1988–; Annals of Ap- 1995–1996; Co-organizer, plied Probability, 1990–1994. Julia Robinson Conference, Selected Publications: 1. with S. Shelah, Zero-one laws for Berkeley, 1996. sparse random graphs, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1988), 97–115. Selected Publications: 1. Symbols and orbits for 3-step MR 89i:05249; 2. co-author (with R.L. Graham and B. Roth- nilpotent groups, J. Funct. Anal. 62 (1985), 38–64. MR schild), Ramsey theory, second ed., Wiley, New York, 1990. 87a:22016; 2. with C. Benson and J. Jenkins, On Gelfand MR 90m:05003; 3. with N. Alon, The probabilistic method, pairs associated with solvable Lie groups, Trans. Amer. Wiley, New York, 1992. MR 93h:60002; 4. From Erdo˝s to al- Math. Soc. 321 (1990), 85–116. MR 90m:22022; 3. with C. gorithms. Trends in discrete mathematics, Discrete Math. Benson and J. Jenkins, Bounded K-spherical functions on 136 (1994), 295–307. MR 95m:05001; 5. with J. Matousek, Heisenberg groups, J. Funct. Anal. 105 (1992), 409–443. MR Discrepancy in arithmetic progressions, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 93e:22017; 4. with C. Benson, J. Jenkins, and R. L. Lipsman, 9 (1996), 195–204. MR 96c:11089. The moment map for a multiplicity free action, Bull. Amer. Statement: Paul Erdo˝s speaks of The Book, containing all Math. Soc. (N. S.) 31 (1994), 185–190. MR 95b:22010; 5. with the theorems and, for each, one proof—The Book Proof. As C. Benson, A classification of multiplicity free actions, J. Al- individual mathematicians, we are custodians and/or dis- gebra 181 (1996), 152–186. coverers of The Book. As a mathematical society, the AMS Statement: The mission of the AMS has broadened to sup- should facilitate our work. Organizing meetings, estab- port all facets of the professional lives of American math- lishing journals, overseeing education, and providing a ematicians. In addition, the Society must continue to play much-needed interface with our patrons in Washington are an advocacy role in educating national leaders and the some of its hard, but very necessary, chores. public on the importance of funding basic research and in- I am particularly concerned with the international charac- creasing mathematical literacy. The changes in technology ter of our field. American mathematical life has always been and management of libraries present another challenge the spurred by the vitality and brilliance of our immigrants, Society must continue to address. The AMS should also and I see this continuing in my classrooms every day. As strive to increase the numbers of women and minorities a society, we should encourage visitors from other coun- at all levels of the profession, but in particular to work for tries and the visits abroad of our own membership. Our the promotion of members of underrepresented groups to colleagues throughout the world speak the common lan- leadership positions. guage of mathematics.
Joel H. Spencer Philip Uri Treisman Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Courant University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Mathematical Sci- and Director, Charles A. Dana ences, New York University. Center for Mathematics and Born: April 20, 1946, Brook- Science Education, University lyn, New York. of Texas at Austin. Ph.D.: Harvard University, Born: July 1, 1946, Brooklyn, 1970. New York. AMS Committees: Program Ph.D.: University of Califor- Committee for National Meet- nia, Berkeley, 1985. ings, 1994– (chair, 1995–). AMS Committees: Task Force Selected Addresses: NSF- on Participation for Under- CBMS Lecturer, Durango, represented Minorities, 1986; St. Flour (France) Prob- 1995– . ability School, 1991; Invited Selected Addresses: Keynote Address, “Culturing the Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, Change: Notes on the Democratization of Undergraduate 1994; Nachdiplom Lectures, ETH, Zurich, 1995. Mathematics Education”, International Joint Mathematics Additional Information: Putnam Competition Winner, Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, August 1993; Speaker, “New 1962; Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1977–1981; Putnam Com- Directions in the Education of Students Identified as Gifted”,
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National Association for Gifted Children, Washington, DC, AMS Committees: Centennial February 1994; Plenary Session, “In Praise of Academic Fellowships Committee, Citizenship”, American Association of Higher Education Na- 1989–1990. tional Conference on Higher Education, Washington, DC, Selected Addresses: Invited March 1994; Keynote Address, “Curriculum, Culture, and Address, Salt Lake City, Au- Community and Their Roles in Educational Change”, Na- gust 1987; Low-Dimensional tional Council on Teachers of Mathematics, 72nd Annual Topology and Combinatorial Meeting, Indianapolis, April 1994; Keynote Address, Ernest Group Theory, Rensaleerville, L. Boyer Technology Summit for Educators, Pittsburgh, 1990; Recent Developments April 1996. in Topology, Princeton, 1995; Additional Information: Dana Award for Pioneering Group Theory, Oberwolfach, Achievement in American Higher Education, 1987; Mem- Germany, 1995; Special Ses- ber, Advisory Board, Education and Human Resources Di- sion on Geometric Group The- rectorate of the NSF, 1989– ; Director, Summer Mathe- ory, Greensboro, November matics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. 1989–1994; Senior Advisor for Education, Charles A. Dana Additional Information: Member, Institute for Advanced Foundation, New York, 1990– ; MacArthur Fellowship, Study, 1980–1981; NSF Visiting Professorship for Women, 1992–1997; Executive Director, Texas Statewide Systemic 1984–1985; NSF Career Advancement Award, MSRI, 1989; Initiative, 1994– ; President, Board of Trustees, Consortium Selection Committee for AWM Noether Lecturer, 1991–1993; for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP), 1995– ; Member, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 1993; Re- Member, Management Team, National Institute for Science search Professor, MSRI, 1994; NSF Panel on Graduate Fel- Education, 1995– ; Member, Council on Mathematics, Sci- lowships in Mathematics, 1994, 1996; Member: AMS, AWM. ence, and Engineering Education of the National Research Selected Publications: 1. Spherical posets and homology Council, 1995– . stability for On,n, Topology 20 (1981), 119–132. MR Selected Publications: 1. with S. Malcom, Calculus success 82d:18016; 2. with J. Schwermer, The integral homology for all, Calculus for a New Century, Mathematical Associ- of SL2 and PSL2 over Euclidean imaginary quadratic in- ation of America, Washington, DC, 1988; 2. R. E. Fullilove tegers, Comment. Math. Helv. 58 (1983), 573—598. MR III, Mathematics achievement among African American un- 86d:11046; 3. with M. Culler, Moduli of graphs and auto- dergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley: An morphisms of free groups, Invent. Math. 84 (1986), 91–119. evaluation of the mathematics workshop program, Journal MR 87f:20048; 4. with S. Krstic, Equivariant outer space of Negro Education 59 (1990), 463–478; 3. Studying students and automorphisms of free-by-finite groups, Comment. studying calculus: A look at the lives of minority mathematics Math. Helv. 68 (1993), 216–262. MR 94c:20067; 5. End in- students in college (A Mary P. Dolciani Lecture), College Math- variants of the group of outer automorphisms of a free ematics Journal 23 (1992), 362–372; 4. with R. Asera, Routes group, Topology 34 (1995), 533–545. MR 96h:20068. to mathematics for African-American, Latino and Native Statement The primary purpose of the AMS is to promote American students in the 1990s: The educational trajecto- and facilitate research in mathematics. In today’s climate ries of Summer Institute participants, Issues in Mathemat- of government and university budget restrictions, the AMS ics Education, vol. 5, Conference Board of the Mathemati- must look for new ways to make it possible for mathe- cal Sciences, Amer. Math. Soc., Math. Assoc. Amer., matical ideas to circulate widely and for mathematicians Providence, RI, 1995, pp. 127–151. to encounter each other frequently. We must take special Statement: To carry out its core mission of furthering care to ensure that mathematicians from underrepresented mathematical research and scholarship, the AMS must groups have equal access to mathematical ideas and equal build its capacity to advocate for the discipline, to enter opportunities for professional advancement. The AMS into partnerships that advance mathematics, and to increase must also help make the general public aware of the cru- the public’s understanding of and involvement in the math- cial role mathematics plays in all areas of science and tech- ematical enterprise. The Society must formulate and act on nology. a realistic strategy for improving mathematics education at all levels and for increasing the diversity of individuals Trustee who make up the profession. The Society must also develop new strategies for communicating advances in mathe- Richard E. Ewing matics—and their significance—to the widest possible au- Texas A & M University, The Texas A & M University Sys- dience. All of this requires commitment and resources. I tem Dean, College of Science Director, Institute for Scien- have the commitment and will work with the officers and tific Computation Director, Academy for Advanced Telecom- staff to acquire the resources necessary to realize this munications and Learning Technologies, Professor of agenda. Mathematics and Engineering. Born: November 24, 1946, Kingsville, Texas. Karen Vogtmann Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin, 1974. Professor, Cornell University AMS Committees: Committee on Science Policy, 1993– . Born: July 13, 1949, Pittsburg, California. Selected Addresses: Keynote address, International Con- Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 1977. ference on Accuracy Estimates and Adaptive Refinements
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in Finite Element Computa- preparation to ensure adequate precollege training and tions (ARFEC), Lisbon, Portu- should extend these concepts into our undergraduate and gal, June 1984; Plenary lecture, graduate education. We need to continue to promote the Fourth International Confer- profession and the public perception of our role in science ence on Domain Decomposi- and engineering education and research. tion Methods, Moscow, May 1990; Keynote address, Sec- Andy R. Magid ond World Congress on Com- George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Mathematics, Uni- putational Mechanics, versity of Oklahoma. Stuttgart, Germany, August Born: May 4, 1944, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1990; Keynote lecture, Third Ph.D.: Northwestern University, 1969. U. S. National Congress on AMS Offices: Associate Secretary, 1988–1995. Computational Mechanics, AMS Committees: Notices Editorial Board, 1995– ; Con- Dallas, June 1995; Plenary lec- temporary Mathematics Editorial Committee, 1996– . ture, International Conference on Advanced Mathematics, Selected Addresses: Special Sessions: Finite Dimensional Computations, and Applications (AMCA-95), Novosibirsk, Field Extensions, St. Louis, April 1975; Algebraic Groups, Russia, June 1995. Kalamazoo, August 1975; Representations of Finite Groups, Additional Information: J. E. Warren Distinguished Pro- Baton Rouge, November 1982; Deformation Theory, Ana- fessor of Energy and Environment, University of Wyoming, heim, January 1985; Algebraic Geometry, Laramie, August 1984–1992; Director, Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute, Uni- 1985; Commutative Algebra, Columbia, November 1985; In- versity of Wyoming, 1984–1992; Director, NSF Cooperative variant Theory, Denton, October 1986; Algebraic Groups, Research Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of East Lansing, March 1988; Commutative Algebra and Prob- Wyoming, 1986–1989; Honorary Guest Professorship, Peo- ability Groups, Eugene, June 1994; New Doctoral Work in ple’s Republic of China, 1987; John and Jane Wold Cen- Mathematics, Stillwater, October 1994; Group Theory, tennial Chair in Energy, University of Wyoming, 1990–1992; Jerusalem, May 1995; Algebraic Groups and Invariant The- Texas Engineering Experiment Station Distinguished Re- ory, Orlando, January 1996. Invited Address, Houston, search Chair, The Texas A&M University System, 1992– ; April 1978. Editorial Boards: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis ; Nu- Additional Information: Co-organizer (with A. Fauntleroy), merical Methods for Partial Differential Equations ; Com- Special Session on Algebraic Groups, Kalamazoo, 1975; puter Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (ed- Co-organizer (with R. Resco), Special Session on Universal itor, special issue on reservoir simulation); in situ, Journal Enveloping Algebras and Group Algebras, Norman, 1983; of Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications; Environ- Co-organizer (with W. Goldman), Summer Research Con- mental Software ; Surveys on Mathematics for Industry ; Ad- ference on Geometry of Group Representations, Boulder, vances in Water Research ; Nonlinear World ; Computa- 1987; Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Ok- tional Mechanics Advances ; Communications in Applied lahoma, 1989—1994; Co-organizer (with D. Lewis and R. Analysis ; Mathematical Modeling and Computational Ex- Zimmer), Special Session on New Doctoral Work in Math- periment ; Fellow, AAAS, 1996; Member: AGU, AMS, MAA, ematics, Stillwater, 1994; Co-organizer (with A. Lubotzky SPE, AAAS, IACM, SIAM (trustee, 1987–1993), USACM. and A. Mann), Special Session on Group Theory, Jerusalem, Selected Publications: 1. with T. F. Russell, Efficient time- 1995; Co-organizer (with L. Small), Special Session on Al- stepping methods for miscible displacement problems in gebras, Cohomology, and Polynomial Identities, Orlando, porous media, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 19 (1982), 1–66. MR 1995. 83f:65174; 2. Finite element methods for nonlinear flows in Selected Publications: 1. The separable Galois theory of porous media, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr. 51 commutative rings, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1974. (1985), 421–439. MR 87b:76004; 3. with J. Bramble, J. Pas- MR 50 #4563; 2. Module categories of analytic groups, Cam- ciak, and A. Schatz, A preconditioning technique for the ef- bridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982. MR 84j:22008; ficient solution of problems with local grid refinement, Com- 3. with A. Lubotzky, Unipotent and prounipotent groups: put. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr. 67 (1988), 149–159. 4. A Cohomology and presentations, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) posteriori error estimation, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. 7 (1982), 251–254. MR 83f:14039; 4. with A. Lubotzky, Va- Engr. 82 (1990), 59–72. (Article not reviewed separately; see rieties of representations of finitely generated groups, Mem. MR 91g:00036.) 5. with M. Celia, T. Russell, and I. Herrera, Amer. Math. Soc., no. 336, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, An Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint method for ad- RI, 1985. MR 87c:20021; 5. Lectures on differential Galois vection-diffusion equations, Adv. Water Resources 13 (4) theory, Univ. Lecture Ser., vol. 7, Amer. Math. Soc., Provi- (1990), 187–206. dence, RI, 1994. MR 95j:12008. Statement: The AMS should play a leadership role in help- Statement: The Society’s bylaws establish a Board of ing the mathematical community to unite and speak with Trustees to “receive and administer the funds of the Soci- one voice in Washington, D.C., and with funding agencies. ety.” Our modern Board of elected volunteers (properly) in- We must be proactive in setting the research agenda for terprets this to mean oversight, not management. In so our community, especially in times with uncertain federal doing, I think it is important for the Board to represent the research support. We must continue to lead in the estab- Society’s membership (past, present, and future) by being lishment of standards for K–12 education and teacher sensitive to the fact that many of the Society’s revenues
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are derived from the mathematical community and that the Selected Publications: 1. with level of those services must be kept at a price that the com- W. G. Strang, The correctness munity—meeting registrants, libraries subscribing to So- of the Cauchy problem, Adv. in ciety journals, students and mathematicians buying Soci- Math. 6 (1971), 347–379. MR ety books or accessing Mathematical Reviews—can afford. 43 #5147; 2. with M. G. For- While the Board’s strict charge is to see to the “business est and D. W. McLaughlin, Mul- affairs of the Society,” since the Society can only conduct tiphase averaging and the in- its businesses in a thriving mathematical world, I believe verse spectral solution of the the Board’s charge includes helping conserve the limited Kortweg-de Vries equation, financial resources of the entire mathematics community. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 33 (1980), 739–784. MR Nominating Committee 81k:35142; 3. with A. C. Newell, Monodromy- and spec- Efraim P. Armendariz trum-preserving deformations. Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin. I., Comm. Math. Phys. 76 (1980), 65–116. MR 82g:35103; 4. with L. Haine, Variétés de drapeaux et réseaux de Toda, Born: July 9, 1938, Brownsville, Texas. Math. Z. 208 (1991), 545–556. MR 93e:58080; 5. with A. Ph.D.: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1966. M. Bloch and T. S. Ratiu, A Schur-Horn-Kostent convexity AMS Committees: Liaison Committee with AAAS, theorem for the diffeomorphism group of the annulus, In- 1992–1994; Committee to Monitor Problems in Commu- vent. Math. 113 (1993), 511–529. MR 94i:58063. nication, 1993; Task Force on Participation for Underrep- resented Minorities, 1995– . Selected Addresses: Special Session on Rings and Modules, Barbara L. Osofsky Norman, March 1983; Special Session on Invariant Theory Professor of Mathematics, Rut- and Ring Theory, Salt Lake City, August 1987; Special Ses- gers University, New Bruns- sion on Rings and Modules, First Joint Meeting of the Amer- wick, New Jersey. ican Mathematical Society and Sociedad Matematica Mex- Born: August 4, 1937, Beacon, icana, Mexico, December 1993; Special Session on New York. Associative Rings, Second Joint Meeting of the American Ph.D.: Rutgers University, Mathematical Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, 1964. Guanajuato, Mexico, December 1995. AMS Committees: Commit- Additional Information: Chair, Department of Mathemat- tee on Publication of Regional ics, University of Texas at Austin, 1991– ; MAA Commit- Conference Lectures, 1974; tee on Minority Participation in Mathematics, 1991– ; Chair, Proceedings Editorial Com- MAA Texas Section, 1996–1997; Member: AMS, MAA, Phi mittee (ex officio member of Kappa Phi. AMS Council), 1974–1977 Selected Publications: 1. with J. Fisher and R. Snider, On (managing editor, 1976–1977); injective and surjective endomorphisms of finitely generated Advisory Committee on Editorial Policy of the Notices, modules, Comm. Algebra 6 (1978), 659–672. MR 57 #9754; 1976, Editorial Board of the Notices, 1977, and Notices Ed- 2. On semiprime rings of bounded index, Proc. Amer. Math. itorial Committee, 1978–1980; Committee on Principles Soc. 85 (1982), no. 2, 146–148. MR 83j:16005; 3. with J. K. and Procedures, 1976–1977; Committee on Publication Park, The double centralizer theorem for division algebras, Problems, 1977; Committee on the Agenda, 1977–1978; Israel J. Math. 45 (1983), no. 1, 63–68. MR 85e:16021; 4. with Nominating Committee, 1978–1979; Program Committee C. R. Hajarnavis, On prime ideals in hereditary PI-rings, J. for National Meetings, 1978–1980; AMS-MAA-SIAM Joint Algebra 116 (1988), no. 2, 502–505. MR 89e:16026; 5. with Projects Committee for Mathematics, 1982; Short Course J. K. Park, Self-injective rings with restricted chain conditions, Subcommittee, 1978–1991; Committee on Academic Free- Arch. Math. (Basel) 58 (1992), no. 1, 24–33. MR 92m:16002. dom, Tenure, and Employment Security, 1988–1991(chair, 1989–1991); AMS-MAA Joint Program Committee for the Hermann Flaschka San Francisco Meeting, January 1995; AMS-MAA Joint Pro- Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona. gram Committee for the Orlando Meeting, January 1996; Born: March 25, 1945, Oeblarn, Austria. AMS-MAA Joint Program Committee for the Seattle Math- fest, August 1996 (chair). Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970. AMS Committees: Committee on Steele Prizes, 1985–1988; Selected Addresses: Invited Address, Dallas, January 1973; Committee on Applications of Mathematics, 1990–1992; MAA Invited Address, Atlanta, January 1978; MAA Invited Program Committee for National Meetings, 1992–1995. Address, Albany, August 1983; Special Session on Ring Selected Addresses: Invited Address, Duluth, August Theory, Columbus, August 1990; Special Session on Rings 1979; Invited Address, SIAM 30th Anniversary Meeting, and Representations, Philadelphia, October 1991. Palo Alto, 1982. Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Additional Information: 1995 Norbert Wiener Prize in Ap- 1967–1968; Member-at-Large, CBMS, 1973–1975; Board of plied Mathematics. Trustees, CBMS, 1980–1982 (chair, 1981–1982); MAA, New
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Jersey Sectional Governor, 1994– ; Member: AMS, AWM, Increasingly our colleges and universities are being asked MAA. to be accountable for their educational and research mis- Selected Publications: 1. Homological dimensions of mod- sions. Given the current atmosphere in American industry, ules, CBMS Regional Conf. Ser. in Math., no. 12, Amer. Math. it may happen that schools will be asked to improve their Soc., Providence, RI, 1973. MR 56 #5525; 2. Projective di- productivity. In both cases it may seem that the basic im- mension of “nice” directed unions, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 13 portance of mathematics and its increasing importance in (1978), 179–219. MR 81d:16019; 3. Cyclic modules whose all areas of science and technology will shield mathemat- quotients have all complement submodules direct sum- ics, but the Rochester incident should awaken us to real- mands, J. Algebra 139 (1991), 342–354. MR 92f:16030; 4. ity. Constructing nonstandard uniserial modules over valuation The increasing use of electronic means of communication domains, Azumaya Algebras, Actions, and Modules, Con- is affecting mathematics as it is affecting all fields. The AMS temp. Math., vol. 124, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1992, has been among the leaders in adapting to the new era, but pp. 151–164. MR 93d:13006 (Also see MR 92c:13022.); 5. the fact remains that these changes are threatening the fi- Minimal cogenerators need not be unique, Comm. Algebra nancial strength of the Society. 19 (1991), 2071–2080. MR 92k:16008. To face all of these challenges, the AMS needs the strongest Statement: It is important to get candidates for AMS of- leadership possible. It is the job of the Nominating Com- fices who are receptive to input from all of the member- mittee to seek out the most qualified of our colleagues and ship. There are many very good ideas out there and hard to encourage them to assume leadership positions in the workers who can greatly contribute to the organization. We Society. I would be proud to help in doing this important should think very carefully about the best ways to tap that job. potential, especially in these difficult times. James D. Stasheff John C. Polking Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Professor, Rice University. Chapel Hill. Born: June 6, 1934, Breda, Iowa. Born: January 15, 1936, New York, New York. Ph.D.: University of Chicago, 1966. Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1961. AMS Offices: Board of Trustees, 1990–1995. D. Phil: Oxford University, 1961. AMS Committees: Committee on Science Policy, 1988–1991, AMS Committees: Committee to Select Hour Speakers for 1993–1995; Committee to Select the Winner of the Award Southeastern Sectional Meetings, 1977–1978; Transactions for Public Service, 1989–1995; Committee to Review Mem- and Memoirs Editorial Committee, 1978–1981; Committee bership Publications, 1992–1993. on Teaching Loads and Class Size, 1980–1982; Committee Selected Addresses: Invited Address, Memphis, Novem- on Science Policy, 1980–1983; Nominating Committee, ber 1977. 1982–1984; Committee on Recruitment of Young Mathe- Additional Information: Convener of the Steering Com- maticians, 1986–1988 (chair). mittee, IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, 1993– . Selected Addresses: Summer Institute on Algebraic Topol- Selected Publications: 1. with Reese Harvey, Removable ogy, Madison, 1970; Invited Address, Kalamazoo, August singularities of solutions of linear partial differential equa- 1975; Special Session on Algebraic Topology, Seattle, Au- tions, Acta Math. 125 (1970), 39–56. MR 43 #5183; 2. with gust 1977; Special Session on de Rham Homotopy, Bloom- F. Reese Harvey, Fundamental solutions in complex analy- ington, April 1980; Special Session on Algebraic Topology, sis, I. The Cauchy-Riemann operator, Duke Math. J. 46 Cincinnati, January 1982; Special Session on Mathematical (1979), 253–300. MR 81c:32042a; and Fundamental solu- Physics, San Antonio, January 1987; Special Session on tions in complex analysis, II. The induced Cauchy-Riemann Moduli Spaces, Operads, and Representation Theory, Hart- operator, Duke Math. J. 46 (1979), 301–340. MR 81c:32042b; ford, March 1995. 3. with F. Reese Harvey, The δ-Neumann solutions to the Additional Information: NSF Foundation Grants, 1964–; inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equation on the ball in Cn, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1964–1965, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 281 (1984), 587–613. MR 85e:32006; 1969–1970, fall 1987; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1969–1970; 4. The Cauchy-Riemann equations in convex domains, Proc. Danforth Fellow; Marshall Fellow; Member: AMS, MAA. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 52, part 3, Amer. Math. Soc., Prov- Selected Publications: 1. H-spaces from a homotopy point idence, RI, 1991, pp. 309–322. MR 92j:32058; 5. Ordinary of view, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 161, Springer- differential equations using MATLAB, Prentice-Hall, Engle- Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1970. MR 42 #5261; 2. with John wood Cliffs, NJ, 1995. W. Milnor, Characteristic classes, Ann. of Math. Stud., vol. Statement: The American Mathematical Society is facing 76, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1974. MR 55 several critical issues at the present time. #13428; 3. with Michael Schlessinger,The Lie algebra struc- The decreasing level of support for individual research is ture of tangent cohomology and deformation theory, J. Pure causing us to look closely at how these resources can best Appl. Algebra 38 (1985), 313–322. MR 87e:13019; 4. Closed be used. string field theory, strong homotopy Lie algebras and the The current imbalance between the numbers of Ph.D.’s operad actions of moduli spaces, Perspectives in Mathe- produced and available academic jobs is causing us to re- matical Physics (R. C. Penner and S. T. Yau, eds.), Conf. Proc. think our use and treatment of graduate students and the Lecture Notes Math. Phys., III. International Press, Cam- purpose of the Ph.D. itself. bridge, MA, 1994, pp. 265—288. MR 96e:81225; 5. Homo-
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logical (ghost) methods in mathematical physics, Infinite- all, we must maintain our traditional high standards for Dimensional Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry, Op- the quality and interest of the mathematics published by erator Algebras, Fundamental Interactions, World Scientific the AMS. Any changes in publishing will have an impact Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 1995, pp. 242–264. on the crisis our libraries are currently going through. In Statement: The most important role of the Nominating the area of soliciting and handling nominations for the AMS Committee is ensuring diversity in the selection of nomi- editorial committees, the principal mission of this com- nees, not only in terms of race and gender, but also in terms mittee, it is important to use balanced judgment and good of diversity of interests, geography, and institutions: aca- sense. demic and not, public and private, of all sizes and degrees of prestige. Russel Caflisch Professor, University of California, Los Angeles. Editorial Boards Committee Born: April 29, 1954, Charleston, West Virginia. Ph.D.: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New Eric Bedford York University, 1978. Professor of Mathematics, In- Selected Addresses: International Symposium on Rar- diana University at Blooming- efied Gas Dynamics, Pasadena, 1988; AMS-SIAM Summer ton. Seminar on Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Methods, Seattle, Born: December 23, 1947, Salt June 1990; SIAM Conference on Simulation and Monte Lake City, Utah. Carlo Methods, San Francisco, 1993; International Confer- Ph.D.: University of Michigan, ence on Free Boundary Problems, Sevilla, 1993; Canadian 1974. Mathematical Society, PDE meeting, The Fields Institute, AMS Committees: Commit- 1995. tee to Select Hour Speakers Additional Information: Hertz Graduate Fellowship, for Central Section Meetings, 1975–1978; Sloan Research Fellowship, 1984–1989; De- 1983–1985 (chair, fense Science Study Group, 1985–1988. 1984–1985); Proceedings Edi- Selected Publications: 1. The fluid dynamic limit of the non- torial Committee, 1992– ; linear Boltzmann equation, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 33 Committee on Committees, (1980), 651–666. MR 81j:76072; 2. with M. Miksis, G. C. Pa- 1995– . panicolaou, and L. Ting, Effective equations for wave prop- Selected Addresses: Special Sessions on Several Complex agation in bubbly liquids, J. Fluid Mechanics 153 (1985), Variables, Ann Arbor, November 1976; Providence, August 259–273; 3. with O. Orellana, Singular solutions and ill- 1978; Bryn Mawr, March 1982; and Muncie, October 1989; posedness for the evolution of vortex sheets, SIAM J. Math. Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Anal. 20 (1989), 293–307. MR 90d:76020; 4. Singularity for- Providence, October 1980; Invited Address, Baton Rouge, mation for complex solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler September 1982; Invited Address, All-Union Conference on equations, Phys. D 67 (1993), 1–18. MR 94h:76013; 5. with Complex Analysis, Tashkent, former USSR, June 1989; In- W. Morokoff, Quasi-Monte Carlo integration, J. Comp. Phys. ternational Congress of Mathematicians, 1990. 122 (1995), 218–230. Additional Information: Sloan Foundation Fellow, Statement: Maintenance of high-quality journals and other 1979–1981; Editorial boards/committees: Indiana Univer- publications is at the heart of the mission of the AMS. At sity Mathematics Journal, 1986– ; Journal of Geometric the same time, we need to take advantage of the new pos- Analysis, 1989– . sibilities in electronic publishing and to address the fi- Selected Publications: 1. with B. A. Taylor, The Dirichlet nancial difficulties of many academic libraries. problem for a complex Monge-Ampere equation, Invent. Math. 37 (1976), 1–44. MR 56 #3351; 2. with B. A. Taylor, Richard S. Palais A new capacity for plurisubharmonic functions, Acta Math. Professor, Brandeis University. 149 (1982), 1–41. MR 84d:32024; 3. with W. Klingenberg, Born: May 22, 1931, Lynn, Massachusetts. Jr., On the envelope of holomorphy of 2-sphere in C2, J. Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1956. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1991), 623–646. MR 92j:32034; 4. with AMS Offices: Board of Trustees, 1972–1981. J. Smillie, Polynomial diffeomorphisms of C2: Currents, AMS Committees: Transactions and Memoirs Editorial equilibrium measure and hyperbolicity, Invent. Math. 103 Committee, 1966–1969; AMS Representative, Conference (1991), 69–99. MR 92a:32035; 5. with M. Lyubich and J. Smil- Board of the Mathematical Sciences, 1978; Committee to lie, Polynomial diffeomorphisms of C2: The measure of Monitor Problems in Communication, 1988–1990 (chair, maximal entropy and laminar currents. IV. The measure of 1989); Committee on Electronic Exchange of Information, maximal entropy and laminar currents, Invent. Math. 112 1989 (chair); Bulletin (New Series) Editorial Board, (1993), 77–125. MR 94g:32035. 1990–1994; Committee on Information Policy, 1990–1995 Statement: The technology of publishing is in a state of (chair). rapid development, and it is necessary to be informed on Selected Addresses: International Congress of Mathe- the technical state of the art, in both print and electronic maticians, Nice, 1970. forms, to be able to take advantage of the benefits of tech- Additional Information: NSF Fellow, 1963; Sloan Fellow, nology without suffering its negative side effects. Above 1965–1967; Member: ACM, AMS, MAA.
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Selected Publications: 1. Seminar on the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, Ann. Math. Stud. No. 33, Princeton Univer- sity Press, 1965. MR 33 #6649; 2. Foundations of global non- linear analysis, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York-Amster- dam, 1968. MR 40 #2130; 3. The geometrization of physics, Tsing-Hua University Press, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1981; 4. with C. -L.Terng, Critical point theory and submanifold geome- try, Lecture Notes in Math., no. 1353, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1988. MR 90c:53143; 5. The life and math- ematics of Shiing-Shen Chern, Chern—A Great Geometer of the Twentieth Century (S.T. Yau, ed.), International Press, Hong Kong, 1992; 6. with E. Heintze, G. Thorbergsson, and C. -L. Terng, Hyperpolar actions and k-flat homogeneous spaces, J. Reine Angew. Math. 454 (1994), 163–179. MR 96b:53062.
Ronald J. Stern Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine. Born: January 20, 1947, Chicago, Illinois. Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles, 1973. AMS Committees: Committee on Far Western Sectional Meetings (Select Hour Speakers For), 1986–1987, and West- ern Section Program Committee, 1991–1992 (chair, 1992); Committee on the Profession, 1994– ; Proceedings Editor- ial Committee, 1993–1995. Selected Addresses: MAA Invited Address, Eugene, August 1984; Invited Address, Laramie, August 1985; Spitafield Day, London Mathematical Society, 1994. Additional Information: Editorial Boards: Topology and its Applications, 1986– , and New York Journal of Mathemat- ics, 1993; Secretary, Board of Trustees, MSRI, 1992–1996; President and chair, Board of Governors, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 1995. Selected Publications: 1. with R. Fintushel, Instanton ho- mology of Seifert fibred homology three spheres, Proc. Lon- don Math. Soc. (3) 61 (1990), 109–137. MR 91k:57029; 2. with R. Fintushel, Surgery in cusp neighborhoods and the geography of irreducible 4-manifolds, Invent. Math. 117 (1994), 455–523. MR 95f:57040; 3. with R. Fintushel, The immersed Thom conjecture, Turkish J. Math. 19 (1995), 27–40; 4. with R. Fintushel, Immersed 2-spheres in 4-man- ifolds and the structure of the Donaldson invariants for 4- manifolds of simple type, J. Differential Geom. 42 (1995), 577–633; 5. with R. Fintushel, The blowup formula for Don- aldson invariants, Ann. of Math., to appear. Statement: A primary function of the AMS is its publica- tion program and thus the dissemination of mathematics to the worldwide research community. The primary re- sponsibility of the Editorial Board is to monitor the func- tions of the editorial committees and to nominate candi- dates for the editorial committees to the Council. It is essential, then, that the Editorial Boards Committee ensure that the editorial boards of the AMS journals adhere to the high standards of excellence to which the AMS is commit- ted and also to reflect the broad diversity of research mathematicians in both the academic and nonacademic communities.
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