ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) of the American Mathematical Society December 2017 Volume 64, Number 11 Ad Honorem Charles Fefferman page 1254 An Old Problem Resurfaces Nonlocally page 1275 Marcel Berger Remembered page 1285 Notices of the American Mathematical Society December 2017 FEATURED 1254684 1275 26 1285 Ad Honorem Charles An Old Problem Resurfaces Marcel Berger Remembered Fefferman Nonlocally: Gamow's Liquid by Claude LeBrun, Gérard Besson, Misha Gromov, Jim Simons, Jeff Cheeger, Jean- by Antonio CÓrdoba, Elias Stein, Drops Inspire Today's Pierre Bourguignon, Dennis Sullivan, Terence Tao, Louis Nirenberg, Joseph Research and Applications Jacques Lafontaine, Jerry Kazdan, Marie- J. Kohn, Sun-Yung Alice Chang, C. Louise Michelsohn, Pierre Pansu, Robin Graham, Diego CÓrdoba, Bo'az by Rustum Choksi, Cyrill B. 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