FROM THE AMS SECRETARY 2019 Contributor Dear AMS Members and Friends, Each year, we present this report to celebrate the many generous donors who have contributed to our community. This list inspires me for two reasons: your gifts enhance the lives and careers of mathematicians across the world, and your generosity affirms our shared appreciation for the AMS mission. Your donations in 2019 supported promising researchers and celebrated accomplished mathe- maticians; at the same time, through The Campaign for the Next Generation, you established new endowment that will nurture and encourage early career math- ematicians for decades to come. Many of our most popular programs depend on gifts from friends. Your gifts to the Mathematics Research Communities for early career mathematicians help us meet costs beyond what’s covered by federal grants. Your support of the Epsilon Fund for Young Scholars helps hundreds of mathematically inclined students to attend summer math camps. You create opportunities for mathematicians to participate in our community by subsidizing AMS memberships, conferences, Photo courtesy of Billy Durvin Photo courtesy book publications, and providing travel grants for students to the JMM and AMS Catherine A. Roberts Sectional meetings. You also helped us create opportunities for rising mathemati- AMS Executive Director cians to learn about careers outside academia through the BIG (Business, Industry, and Government) Career Preparation Initiative. But just as important as their immediate impact, your donations in 2019 also made a powerful statement of confidence in the AMS’s mission and vision by investing in our future. The Campaign for The Next Generation reached its goal to raise over $3 million to support early career mathematicians. The Thomas S. Fiske Society added new donors, creating a legacy of generosity through their estate plans. Additionally, 2019 saw the creation of nine Named Endowed Funds of at least $25,000 in support of the AMS. These exciting milestones, together with your contributions to our annual fundraising efforts in 2019, affirm the direction and priorities of the Society. It is not lost on any of us that our current environment offers many reasons for anxiety. Despite these uncertainties and challenges, I remain unwaveringly optimistic about our work and our impact. I am confident because I have a clear view of where we have been and how we arrived at this point. I see members of our math community “paying forward” the support you received earlier in your journeys. We share a commitment to sustaining mathematics. Your generosity in 2019 implies that many of you share my conviction that the AMS will continue to support our members, advance research, and connect the diverse global mathematical community. It is on behalf of this community, for which I know we all care deeply, that I hope you will accept my heartfelt thanks. Catherine A. Roberts Executive Director JUNE/JULY 2020 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 891 AMS Contributors FROM THE AMS SECRETARY Campaign for The Next Generation The following generous donors made gifts and pledges totaling over $3 million to The Campaign for the Next Generation, which concluded on October 16, 2019. The Next Generation Fund, created during the campaign and providing support for early career mathematicians, will remain a strategic fundraising priority for the AMS for many years to come. ($300,000 and above) Anonymous (1) High School math teacher and Next Generation Fund ($100,000 to $299,999) Campaign Committee Member Susan Wildstrom Sigurdur Helgason generously put up $10,000 in matching funds towards M. Susan Montgomery The Campaign for the Next Generation: “It can be hard to get the funding to go to meetings and conferences ($50,000 to $99,999) when you’re a rising mathematician. It’s good to know Anonymous (1) that the AMS will be there to support you when you need it.” —Susan Wildstrom, Campaign for Adrian D. Banner The Next Generation Committee Member Bonnie Berger and Tom Leighton Pro Mathematica Arte Ronald and Sharon Stern Leonard John Borucki Jordan Ellenberg Laurene Heybach Rudiger Braun E.G. Enbar David Hoffman ($25,000 to $49,999) David Bressoud Alex Eskin Nancy Hoffman Anonymous (3) John Brillhart John H. Ewing Tara Holm William J. Browning Christopher Carbone Benson Farb and and Timothy Riley Henry Cohn Roger Chalkley Amie Wilkinson John M. Hosack Craig Huneke Sun-Yung A. Chang David Fisher Whitfield Jordan Ann Kostant Ruth Charney and Erica Flapan and Howard Paul and Linda Muhly Stephan Cecchetti Francis Bonahon Freeman Hrabowski Susan Schwartz Trung Chau Sergey Fomin Paul D. and Wildstrom Dee Dee Shantell John Franks Bonnie Humke Chavers Solomon Friedberg Joan P. Hutchinson (Under $25,000) Dawei Chen William Fulton Ron Irving Anonymous (12) Jungkai Chen Ryan L. Garibaldi Beth Isaacs William Abikoff Herman Chernoff Stephen Gelbart Masanori Itai William Abrams Emma J. Chiappetta James Glimm Louise Jakobson Scot Adams Amy Cohen Michel Goemans David Jerison Jeffrey Adler Ralph Cohen and Dorian Goldfeld Bowen Jones Ian Agol Susan Million William H. Goldman Elaine Kamowitz Arzhang Alimoradi Whitney Colella David Goldschmidt Edgar Kann Colin Alstad John B. Conway Jerome Goldstein Herbert Kasube Matthew Ando Gary Cornell Carolyn S. Gordon Linda Keen Stuart Antman James Cornette Ryan Grady Chandrashekhar Khare James Arthur Robert J. Currier Matthew A. Grayson Garo Kiremidjian Jayadev S. Athreya James Damon Mark L. and Laurence and Joseph Ball Ingrid Daubechies Kathryn Kert Green Celia Kirsch William H. Barker Robert J. Daverman R. Griess Estate of Joseph E. Kist Hyman Bass Donald Davis Robert Andrew Grossman Jane E. Kister Frances B. Bauer Pierre R. Deligne Rosalind Guaraldo Beverly Kleiman Samuel Baumard Keith Dennis Robert Guralnick Janos Kollar Georgia Benkart Peter Der Alfred W. Hales Bryna Kra and Charles Bennett Shanna Dobson Thomas Hales Brian Platnick George Berzsenyi Dezmarie Doyle Robert M. Harington Robert Krasny Sara Billey Nathan Dunfield Jane Hawkins and Andrew Kresch Tom and Nancy Blythe Edward Dunne Michael Taylor Peter Kuchment Brian D. Boe Robert Edwards William R. Hearst, III Jim Kuhn Pardis Boroomand Mohamed Elhamdadi Ellen H. Heiser Alice Kurland 892 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 67, NUMBER 6 AMS Contributors FROM THE AMS SECRETARY Soun-Hi Kwon Frank J. Sottile and Jacques Lafontaine Sarah J. Witherspoon Carl Langenhop Gigliola Staffilani Gregory F. Lawler Norton and Irene Starr Walter Lawson Avi Steiner Robert K. Lazarsfeld T. Christine Stevens David B. Leep Victoria Stoneman Benjamin Leveque Armin Straub William Lewis Francis Su Anatoly Libgober David Sward Hilarie Lieb Jennifer Taback and Douglas Lind Thomas Pietraho Eric Linn Photography. Convention Atlanta Awtrey, of Kate Photo is courtesy Margaret W. Taft Robert J. Lipshutz Terence Tao John Locker The Next Generation Fund is a new resource Jean E. Taylor Susan Loepp at the AMS to help doctoral students and early Philippe Tondeur career mathematicians as they establish their Gerry Loon Mukut Tripathi professional lives. The goal of The Next Gener- Ivan Loseu ation Fund is to support many individuals each Loring W. Tu Adam Lowet year at modest but impactful levels. Designed Alice Staveley and Harry Lucas Jr. to adapt to future needs, it will provide secure, Ravi Vakil Brent Lyons dedicated support to influential career-build- Moshe Vard Robin Marek and ing programs such as AMS Graduate Student Anthony Varilly-Alvarado David Beutel Travel Grants, Mathematics Research Alexander Vauth Walter Markowitch, Jr. Communities, AMS Employment Center, David Vogan Howard Masur JMM Child Care Grants, and AMS Graduate Karen Vogtmann and Arthur Mattuck Student Chapters. John Smillie James Maxwell Sophie Vulpe William McCallum Judy and Mark Walker Donald and Edith Piatetski-Shapiro Ernst Ruh Tongtong Wang Mary McClure Jill C. Pipher Robert Sachs David Wegman Meaghan McConlogue Eric Todd Quinto and Mohammad Sajid Steven H. Weintraub John Meier Judith Ann Larsen Shoichiro Saka Rebecca Weiss Steven J. Miller Shrisha Rao Carla D. Savage Niles White Irina Mitrea Paul Redleaf Thomas R. Savage David Jacob Wildstrom Karen Mollohan Victor Reiner David Savitt Edward Witten and Rachel Moon Kenneth A. Ribet and Karen Saxe and Peter Webb Chiara R. Nappi Sachin Munshi Lisa Goldberg Richard Schoen Scott and Linda Wolpert Walter Neumann Emily Riley and Gerald Schwarz Melanie Wood Abigail Nichols Theodore Simon Alexandra Seceleanu George V. Woodrow III Zbigniew Nitecki Catherine A. Roberts Gary Seitz Alexander Wright M. Frank Norman David Rohrlich Timo Seppalainen Hung-Hsi Wu Hee Oh Jonathan Rosenberg Freydoon Shahidi Catherine Yan Kasso Okoudjou Joseph Rosenblatt and T. Shintani Paul Yang Ken Ono Gay Miller Brooke E. Shipley Roya Zamiri Akhlaghi Takashi Ono Linda Preiss Rothschild Richard Shore Robert J. Zimmer Matthew Papanikolas and Massimo Rovati Susan and Anton Zorich Katherine Veneman Min Ru Joseph Silverman Hemant Pendharkar Daniel Ruberman Kelvin Smith Maria Pereyra Alexey Rudako Campaign for the Next Generation Steering Committee *Campaign Co-Chair Hyman Bass Tara Holm Donald E. McClure Ronald J. Stern Henry Cohn Linda Keen Ken Ono Jennifer Taback* John Ewing Bryna Kra Kenneth Ribet* David Vogan Solomon Friedberg Robert K. Lazarsfeld* Catherine Roberts Susan Wildstrom Mark Green William McCallum Alice Silverberg Scott Wolpert JUNE/JULY 2020 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 893 AMS Contributors FROM THE AMS SECRETARY Named Endowed Funds Donors may establish named endowed funds at the AMS. The following funds were created within The Next Generation Fund. The AMS Trustee Fund The Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Fund The Wendell H. Fleming Fund The Nathan Jacobson Fund During the Campaign for the The Bertram & Ann Kostant Fund Next Generation, 75 donors The Tom Leighton and Bonnie Berger Fund made a gift to the Maryam The William J. LeVeque Fund Mirzakhani Fund, which honors this esteemed and The William Ted Martin Fund ground-breaking The Maryam Mirzakhani Fund mathematician. The Mikio Sato and John Tate Fund The Elias M. Stein Fund Photo is courtesy of Stanford University Photo is courtesy The Stephen H.