Council Minutes 18 January 2000 Abstract The Council of the Society met at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 18 January 2000, in Virginia Suite A/B of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC. Council Minutes January 18, 2000 Page 2 Contents 1. AGENDA ................................................................................................................................. 4 1. Call to Order ........................................................................................................................ 4 2. Minutes ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 2.1. Minutes of the April 1999 Council ............................................................................................................ 4 2.2. Minutes of Business by Mail...................................................................................................................... 4 3. Consent Agenda ............................................................................................................................................... 4 3.1. Progress in Mathematics Committee.......................................................................................................... 4 3.2. Summer Institutes and Special Seminars Committee ................................................................................. 5 3.3. Task Force on Excellence .......................................................................................................................... 5 3.4. Task Force on Membership........................................................................................................................ 5 4. Reports of Boards and Standing Committees ................................................................................................... 5 4.1. Tellers’ Report on the 1999 Elections ....................................................................................................... 5 4.1.1. Tellers’ Report on the Elections of Officers ........................................................................................ 5 4.1.2. Tellers’ Report on the Elections to the Nominating Committee .......................................................... 6 4.1.3. Tellers’ Report on the Elections to the Editorial Boards Committee................................................... 6 4.2. Editorial Boards Committee Report .......................................................................................................... 6 4.2.1. Appointment to the Notices of the AMS Editorial Board .................................................................... 6 4.2.2. Appointment to the Mathematical Reviews Editorial Committee........................................................ 6 4.2.3. Appointment to the Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Editorial Committee ............................. 6 4.3. Notices Editor Search Committee ............................................................................................................ 7 4.4. Executive Committee and Board of Trustees............................................................................................. 7 4.4.1. Joint Summer Research Conferences Advisory Panel ......................................................................... 7 4.4.2. Gifts from Ky and Yu-fen Fan ............................................................................................................. 7 4.4.3. Appointment of Certain AMS Officers ............................................................................................... 8 4.4.3.1. Associate Secretary for the Southeastern Section......................................................................8 4.4.3.2. Associate Secretary for the Eastern Section............................................................................... 8 4.4.3.3. Associate Treasurer ................................................................................................................... 8 4.4.3.4. Treasurer.................................................................................................................................... 8 4.4.3.5. Secretary.................................................................................................................................... 8 4.4.4. Support for the AMS President............................................................................................................ 8 4.5. Committee on the Profession (on the Levi L. Conant Prize)...................................................................... 9 4.6. Committee on Publications ........................................................................................................................ 9 4.6.1. Additions to the Charge of the Book Editorial Committee .................................................................. 9 4.6.2. Reprinted Books Committee................................................................................................................ 9 4.6.3. Revising the Notices .......................................................................................................................... 10 4.7. Committee on Education.......................................................................................................................... 11 4.8. Committee on Meetings and Conferences................................................................................................ 11 4.9. Archives Committee................................................................................................................................. 11 4.10. Mathematical Reviews Editorial Committee.......................................................................................... 12 4.11. AMS Council Representative to the Canadian Mathematical Society ................................................... 12 4.12. AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize Committee........................................................................................ 12 5. Old Business .................................................................................................................................................. 12 6. New Business ................................................................................................................................................. 12 6.1. Reciprocity Agreement with the European Mathematical Society........................................................... 12 6.2. Report and Greetings from the European Mathematical Society ............................................................. 12 6.3. Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics Editorial Committee ...................................................... 12 6.4. Resolution on Open Science and Security ............................................................................................... 13 6.5. Long-term Support for the Epsilon Program............................................................................................ 14 Council Minutes January 18, 2000 Page 3 6.6. AMS-MAA Joint Meetings Committee ................................................................................................... 14 7. Announcements, Information and Record....................................................................................................... 15 7.1. Budget....................................................................................................................................................... 15 7.2. Mathematical Challenges Travel Grant..................................................................................................... 15 8. Adjournment .................................................................................................................................................. 15 II ATTACHMENTS Attachment A. 1999 Council ........................................................................................................................... 16 Attachment B. 2000 Council ........................................................................................................................... 18 Attachment C. Minutes of Business by Mail .................................................................................................. 20 Attachment D. Report of the AMS Task Force on Membership...................................................................... 21 Attachment E. Tellers’ Report on the 1999 AMS Elections .......................................................................... 41 Attachment F. A Counterproposal for Revising the Notices ........................................................................... 42 Attachment G. Proposal for Ky and Yu-fen Fan Endowment.......................................................................... 45 Attachment H. Reciprocity with European Math Society................................................................................ 50 Attachment I. AMS Epsilon Program ............................................................................................................ 55 Council Minutes January 18, 2000 Page 4 1. AGENDA 1. Call to Order and Introductions The meeting began promptly at 1:00 p.m. President Browder, who presided throughout, called on the members and guests to introduce themselves. The members present were James G. Arthur, Francis Bonahon, Felix E. Browder, Robert L. Bryant, Robert J. Daverman, Clifford Earle, Jr., Robert A. Fefferman, Robert M. Fossum, John