NEWS Mathematics People UCSD. He was awarded a Simons Collaboration Grant for Pollack Awarded Mathematicians in 2018. He intends to use the Centennial Fellowship for course release and to visit the University of AMS Centennial Fellowship Utah, Columbia University, and ESI Vienna. He says, “I am The AMS has awarded its Centennial grateful to the AMS for the support the fellowship provides, Fellowship for the academic year which allows me to have more time to focus on research.” 2021–2022 to Aaron Pollack of the The stipend for the 2021–2022 Centennial Fellowship is University of California, San Diego. US$50,000. The award was made at the recommendation Pollack tells the Notices: “My re- of the Centennial Fellows Selection Committee. The pri- search centers around automorphic mary selection criterion is the excellence of the candidate’s forms, specifically automorphic research. forms on exceptional groups and the Please note: Information about the competition for the L-functions of automorphic forms. 2022–2023 AMS Centennial Fellowship will be published in the “Mathematics Opportunities” section of an upcom- Aaron Pollack Much of my recent work has been focused on trying to understand if ing issue of the Notices. there exists a robust arithmetic theory of modular forms —Elaine Kehoe on exceptional groups, similar to the arithmetic theory of classical holomorphic modular forms. “In more detail, classical holomorphic modular forms 2021 MAA Annual occupy a special place in the world of all automorphic forms. They have a classical Fourier expansion and Fourier Meeting Prizes coefficients, and through the Fourier coefficients one can see connections to other areas of number theory. For ex- The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) awarded ample, sometimes the Fourier coefficients of holomorphic several prizes at the 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings, held modular forms count arithmetic or geometric objects. The virtually January 6–9, 2021. arithmeticity properties of the Fourier coefficients also play Nathan Carter of Bentley Univer- key roles in work on special values of L-functions. sity received the Beckenbach Book “For reductive groups G for which the associated sym- Prize for Introduction to the Mathemat- metric space is not a complex manifold, one can ask if there ics of Computer Graphics (Mathemat- exists any parallel theory of special automorphic forms ical Association of America, 2016). for G that have the potential to take the place of the holo- The prize citation reads in part: “In morphic modular forms. Gan, Gross, Savin, and Wallach an inviting and readable style, Car- singled out a special class of such automorphic forms on ter leads us through a cornucopia of the so-called quaternionic exceptional groups. Much of my mathematical tricks and structure, work has been focusing on developing the theory of these Nathan Carter illustrating them step-by-step with quaternionic modular forms, including results on their the freeware POV-Ray—an acronym Fourier expansion and Fourier coefficients.” for Persistence of Vision Raytracer. Each section of his book Pollack received his PhD from Princeton University in starts with a natural question: Why is this fun? Of course, 2014 under the direction of Christopher Skinner. He held the answer is a striking image or two—to which a reader’s a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at impulsive response is, How might I do that? Whereupon, Stanford University from 2014 to 2017. He was assistant Carter proceeds to demonstrate. He leads us through vec- professor at Duke University from 2017 to 2020 and spent tors, geometrical transformations in two and three dimen- the academic year 2017–2018 as a member of the Institute sions, lines of sight and perspective, the theory of color and for Advanced Study. He is currently assistant professor at lighting techniques, animation, applications of Bernstein 824 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 68, NUMBER 5 Mathematics People NEWS polynomials and Bezier curves, and finishes with subdi- speak to the very core of what it means to be human.” The vision algorithms. Nathan Carter’s book is a modern-day prize citation states: “Su’s writing artfully blends personal version of the master woodcutter Albrecht Dürer’s 1525 narrative with scholarly perspectives and mathematical mathematical and artistic treatise The Art of Measurement problems that challenge the reader to engage in their own with Compass and Straightedge.” Carter received his PhD mathematical journey as the book unfolds. As powerful as from Indiana University in 2004. He uses computer science Su’s narrative is, his thesis is driven home in dramatic fash- to advance mathematics by writing open-source software ion through the included writings of Christopher Jackson, for university mathematics education in areas including whose own journey led him to discover the transformative mathematical logic and abstract algebra visualization. He power of mathematics from behind prison walls.” Su writes is a past recipient of several awards from the MAA, includ- about the dignity of human beings and the wonder of ing the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching mathematical teaching. He received his PhD from Harvard by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty University. He is a former MAA president and current AMS Member (2010), the Beckenbach Book Prize for Visual Group vice president. His research is in geometric combinatorics Theory (2012), and the Trevor Evans Award (2012). His and applications to the social sciences, and he has coau- honors from Bentley University include Outstanding Schol- thored numerous papers with undergraduates. His awards arly Contribution (2012) and two Innovation in Teaching from the MAA include the Haimo Award for distinguished Awards (2014, 2016). Carter tells the Notices: “My hobbies teaching of mathematics and the 2018 Halmos–Ford Award are mostly biking to work and playing video games with for mathematical writing. He authors the Math Fun Facts my children. But probably the most important fact about website and is the creator of @mathfeed, a math news me as a person is that I am a Christian.” aggregator on Twitter. Christopher Jackson works in the Travis Kowalski of the South Dakota School of Mines education department at the Coleman Federal Prison in and Technology was awarded the Chauvenet Prize for his Florida and has helped more than fifty inmates so far learn article “The Sine of a Single Degree,” The College Mathe- math to get their General Equivalency Diplomas. His hob- matics Journal 47 (2016). The citation reads in part: “In a bies include studying, reading, working out, and keeping standard trigonometry course, one typically considers the current with world events. His goal is to use his experiences sine of standard angles 30˚, 45˚, and 60˚, but what about to get people excited about math education in particular sine of 1˚? This paper boldly asks if it is possible to find an and also education in general. exact value for sin 1˚ in terms of ratios of radicals and inte- Deanna Haunsperger of Carleton gers, and then takes the reader on a beautiful mathematical College was honored with the Gung tour involving geometry, algebra, and complex numbers to and Hu Award for Distinguished Ser- answer that question.” Kowalski earned his undergraduate vice to Mathematics “for her prolific and graduate degrees from the University of California and service to mathematics, including spent two years as a visiting professor at Colorado Col- with the Mathematical Association lege. He has been a professor of mathematics at the South of America; for her influential lead- Dakota School of Mines and Technology since 2004 and ership of women in mathematics; currently serves as its interim head of mathematics. He is for her long focus on inclusion and a recipient of the MAA’s 2017 George Polya Award and the Deanna Haunsperger on building inclusive mathematical 2019 Burton W. Jones Award for Distinguished Teaching. communities; and for a laudable His mathematical interests include complex analysis and career that has been rich in mathematical research, mathe- formal power series; mathematical pedagogy; and exploring matical education, and mathematical exposition.” She has the intersection of mathematics, history, art, and culture. been coeditor of Math Horizons, cofounder and codirector He also enjoys creating napkin art, playing tabletop games of the Summer Mathematics Program for Women Under- with his family, and panicking at the ever-increasing size graduates (SMP), and a member of many MAA committees. of his email inbox. The SMP program (which she cofounded with her husband Francis Su of Harvey Mudd Stephen Kennedy) was recognized with the AMS Mathe- College and Christopher Jack- matics Programs That Make a Difference Award in 2014. son were honored with the Haunsperger received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award Euler Book Prize for Mathemat- for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women in Mathematics ics for Human Flourishing, with from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2012 reflections by Christopher Jackson and (with Kennedy) the MAA Meritorious Service Award in (Yale University Press, 2020), 2016. She helped found and chaired the first committee for Francis Su (left) and which presents mathematics the MAA Inclusivity Prize. Haunsperger received her PhD in Christopher Jackson (right) “as a discipline that has the mathematics from Northwestern University in 1991. From power to transform lives and 1991 to 1994 she and Kennedy taught at St. Olaf College, MAY 2021 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 825 Mathematics People NEWS and they joined the Carleton faculty in 1994. She tells the mathematical community through mathematical creativ- Notices: “I’m an avid photographer, and I’ve never met a ity.” Austin received his PhD from the University of Utah craft I haven’t liked.” under Ron Stern. After holding a postdoctoral position at The Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the University Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathe- of British Columbia, then moved to Grand Valley State Uni- matics were awarded to Dave Kung of St.