ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) of the American Mathematical Society January 2018 Volume 65, Number 1 JMM 2018 Lecture Sampler page 6 Taking Mathematics to Heart y e n r a page 19 h C th T Ru a Columbus Meeting l i t h i page 90 a W il lia m s r e lk a W ca G Eri u n n a r C a rl ss on l l a d n a R na Da J i ll C . P ip her s e v e N ré F And e d e r i c o A rd ila s n e k c i M . E d al Ron Notices of the American Mathematical Society January 2018 FEATURED 6684 19 26 29 JMM 2018 Lecture Taking Mathematics to Graduate Student Section Sampler Heart Interview with Sharon Arroyo Conducted by Melinda Lanius Talithia Williams, Gunnar Carlsson, Alfi o Quarteroni Jill C. Pipher, Federico Ardila, Ruth WHAT IS...an Acylindrical Group Action? Charney, Erica Walker, Dana Randall, by omas Koberda André Neves, and Ronald E. Mickens AMS Graduate Student Blog All of us, wherever we are, can celebrate together here in this issue of Notices the San Diego Joint Mathematics Meetings. Our lecture sampler includes for the first time the AMS-MAA-SIAM Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Lecture, this year by Talithia Williams on the new PBS series NOVA Wonders. After the sampler, other articles describe modeling the heart, Dürer's unfolding problem (which remains open), gerrymandering after the fall Supreme Court decision, a story for Congress about how geometry has advanced MRI, “My Father André Weil” (2018 is the 20th anniversary of his death), and a profile on Donald Knuth and native script by former Notices Senior Writer and Deputy Editor Allyn Jackson. It is with some sadness and much appreciation that I report that Allyn, after over 30 years at the AMS, is moving on to other activities. The editors have found it an honor and privilege to work with her and wish her every happiness in whatever lies ahead; don't miss the appreciation on page 58. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 58 Allyn Jackson Concludes 31-Year Career at the AMS Frank Morgan 25 Dürer's Unfolding Problem for Convex Polyhedra Mohammad Ghomi 59 Native Script in MathSciNet: Celebrating Diversity Allyn Jackson 37 Can Math Help the Supreme Court Free Congress from Gerrymanders? Karen Saxe 86 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 40 From Blackboard to Bedside: High-dimensional Andy Magid Geometry is Transforming the MRI Industry David Donoho COMMENTARY 52 Cliff ord J. Earle: A Life in Mathematics and Music (1935–2017) 45 Letters to the Editor Linda Keen and Irwin Kra 63 Scripta Manent: How Mathematics Research Journals 54 My Father André Weil Select Articles Sylvie Weil Harriet Pollatsek Notices of the American Mathematical Society FROM THE AMS SECRETARY 72 AMS Press Release: AMS Acquisition of MAA Book Program CURRENT INVITATIONS FROM THE AMS 3 Call for Nominations: D.R. 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The correct time (in months) is 4.4. A MERICAN M ATHEMATICAL S OCIETY D. R. FULKERSON PRIZE The Fulkerson Prize Committee invites nominations for the Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize, sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society. Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at each (triennial) International Symposium of the MOS. The Fulkerson Prize is for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathe- matics. The prize will be awarded at the 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming to be held in Bordeaux, France on July 1–6, 2018. Eligible papers should represent the final publication of the main result(s) and should have been published in a recognized journal or in a comparable, well-refereed volume intended to publish final publications only, during the six calendar years preceding the year of the Symposium (thus, from January 2012 through December 2017). 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