bios.qxp 5/8/98 4:00 PM Page 1007 Biographies of Candidates 1995 Biographical information about the candidates President-Elect has been verified by the candidates, although in a few instances prior travel arrangements of Frederick W. Gehring the candidate at the time of assembly of the in- T. H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Pro- formation made communication difficult or im- fessor, University of Michigan; chair, Depart- possible. A candidate had the opportunity to ment of Mathematics, University of Michigan, make a statement of not more than 200 words 1973–1975, 1977–1980, and 1981–1984. on any subject matter without restriction and to Born: August 7, 1925, Ann Arbor, Michigan. list up to five of her or his research papers. Ph.D.: Cambridge University, 1952; Honoris Abbreviations: American Association for the Causa: University of Helsinki, 1977, and Uni- Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Math- versity of Jyväskylä, 1990. ematical Society (AMS); American Statistical As- Sc.D.: Cambridge University, 1976. sociation (ASA); Association for Computing Ma- AMS Offices: Member-at-Large of the Council, chinery (ACM); Association for Symbolic Logic 1980–1982; Executive Committee, 1973–1975, (ASL); Association for Women in Mathematics 1980–1982; Board of Trustees, 1983–1992 (chair, (AWM); Canadian Mathematical Society, Société 1986, 1991). Mathématique du Canada (CMS); Conference AMS Committees: Proceedings Editorial Com- Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS); In- mittee (Associate Editor), 1962–1964; Math- stitute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS); In- ematical Reviews Editorial Committee, ternational Mathematical Union (IMU); London 1969–1975 (Chair, 1973–1975); Nominating Com- Mathematical Society (LMS); Mathematical As- mittee for the 1975 Election (chair); Editorial sociation of America (MAA); National Academy Committee for the Research Expository Journal, of Sciences (NAS); National Academy of Sci- 1977–1978; Bulletin Editorial Committee (Asso- ences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC); ciate Editor for Research Expository Articles), National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1979–1983; Committee on Membership (Board (NASA); National Council of Teachers of Math- of Trustees), 1979–1992 (chair, 1989–1992); ematics (NCTM); National Science Foundation Committee on Committees, 1980–1982; Com- (NSF); Operations Research Society of America mittee on Science Policy, 1981–1987; Commit- (ORSA); Society for Industrial and Applied Math- tee on Steele Prizes, 1984–1987; Search Com- ematics (SIAM); The Institute of Management mittee for the Position of Executive Director, Sciences (TIMS). 1987; Committee on Institutional Membership Each candidate had the opportunity to sup- (Board of Trustees), 1987–1992 (chair, ply a photograph to accompany his or her bio- 1989–1992); Committee on Academic Review, graphical information. 1989– ; Bergman Trust Committee, 1990–; Com- SEPTEMBER 1995 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1007 bios.qxp 5/8/98 4:00 PM Page 1008 From the AMS mittee on Governance (Board of Trustees), 1993 prominent researchers from abroad now elect to (chair). spend time at American institutions. However, Selected Invited Addresses: AMS, Milwaukee, productive graduate programs, another influx of November 1961; International Congress of Math- foreign mathematicians, and recent spending ematicians, Moscow, August 1966; MAA, Madi- cuts at the federal, state, and local levels have son, August 1968; International Congress of resulted in a shrinking academic job market, re- Mathematicians, Vancouver, August 1974; Ple- duced research budgets, and a decline in achieve- nary Address, International Congress of Math- ment levels of entering undergraduates. ematicians, Berkeley, August 1986. The Society has grown from 3,000 members Additional Information: Guggenheim Fellow and a $50,000 budget in 1945 to 30,000 mem- and Fulbright Fellow Research Scholar, bers and a $19,000,000 budget; its activities 1958–1959; National Science Foundation Fellow, have broadened from a focus on scholarship 1959–1960; Foreign Member, Finnish Academy and research to include professional issues such of Sciences, 1974– ; UK Science Research Coun- as employment, mathematics education, research cil Senior Visiting Fellowship, 1981; Alexander funding, public awareness, and representation von Humboldt Fellowship, 1981–1982, 1988; of women and minorities in the profession. Un- Commander of the Order of Finland’s White fortunately, the Society also faces a potentially Rose, 1986– ; Member, U.S. National Academy of serious problem, since current programs are Sciences, 1989– ; Member, American Academy of supported by publication of journals and books, Arts and Sciences, 1989– . MAA: Chauvenet Prize the income from which could change substan- Committee, 1988–1991 (chair, 1991). NAS/NRC: tially with the advent of electronic publishing. Nominating Committee, 1972–1973; ICM Travel All these problems must be addressed. If Grants Committee, 1978 (chair); Board on Math- elected, my experience as department chair at a ematical Sciences, 1988–1991; Selection Com- major public university, trustee, member of mittee for Award in Mathematics, 1992. NSF: many governing and ad hoc committees, and Board of Governors, Institute for Mathematics consultant for two commercial publishers would and its Applications, 1980–1984; Search Com- prove useful. mittee for Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, 1985–1986 (chair); Geometry Arthur M. Jaffe Center External Advisory Committee, 1991–1995 Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and (chair). SIAM: Polyá Prize Committee, 1993; Theoretical Science, Harvard University. Served on fifteen external review committees Born: December 22, 1937, New York, New York. for mathematics departments in the United Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1966. States, Canada, and Japan, 1979–1995. Editor: AMS Offices: Executive Committee of the Coun- Duke Mathematical Journal, 1963–1980; Edito- cil, 1991–1994. rial Boards: Indiana University Mathematical AMS Committees: Committee to Monitor Prob- Journal, 1966–1975; Complex Variables Theory lems in Communication, 1986–1991 (chair); and Applications, 1981– ; Michigan Mathemati- Committee to Select the Gibbs Lecturers for cal Journal, 1989–. Member: AMS, 1952– ; AWM, 1987 and 1988 (chair); Committee on Steele 1973– ; MAA, 1962– , as well as five European Prizes, 1990–1992; Committee on Long-Range mathematical societies. Consultant: D. Van Nos- Planning, 1993 (chair); Science Policy Committee: trand, 1963–1970; Springer-Verlag, 1974– . Federal Policy Agenda Subcommittee, Selected Publications: 1. Rings and quasicon- 1993–1994; Agenda and Budget Committee, formal mappings in space, Trans. Amer. Math. 1994. Soc. 103 (1962), 353–393. MR 25 #3166; 2. with Selected Addresses: AMS Summer Research In- J. Väisälä, The coefficients of quasiconformality stitute on Partial Differential Equations, Berke- of domains in space, Acta. Math. 114 (1965), ley, August 1971; International Congress of Math- 1–70. MR 31 #4905; 3. The Lp- integrability of ematicians, Helsinki, 1978; Invited Address, New the partial derivatives of a quasiconformal map- York, New York, 1978; Symposium on the Math- ping, Acta. Math. 130 (1973), 265–277. MR 53 ematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré, 1980; Spe- #5861; 4. Spirals and the universal Teichmüller cial Session on Nonlinear Generalizations of space, Acta. Math. 141 (1978), 99–113. MR 58 Maxwell’s Equations, Amherst, October 1981; #17076; 5. with G. J. Martin, Commutators, col- Special Session on Gauge Theory and Applica- lars and the geometry of Möbius groups, J. tions, Brooklyn, April 1994. d’Analyse Math. 63 (1994), 175–219. Additional Information: Academic positions: Statement: American mathematics, which has ex- Chair, Department of Mathematics, Harvard Uni- perienced meteoric growth since 1945, faces se- versity, 1987–1990. Appointments: Lecturer: rious problems. Immigrating scientists, plus con- Varenna Summer School, 1968; Les Houches siderable federal support following Sputnik, Summer School, 1970, 1984, 1995; Erice Summer stimulated a flowering so dramatic that many School, 1973, 1983, 1985; Special Lecturer, Acad- 1008 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 42, NUMBER 9 bios.qxp 5/8/98 4:00 PM Page 1009 From the AMS emia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977; Porter Lecturer, integral point of view, Second edition, Springer- Rice University, 1983; Alumni Lecturer, Penn- Verlag, New York, Berlin, 1987. MR 89k:81001; sylvania State University, 1983; Frank Hahn Lec- 5. with A. Lesniewski and K. Osterwalder, Quan- turer, Yale University, 1985; Balomenos Lecturer, tum K-theory, I. The Chern character, Comm. University of New Hampshire, 1987; Lecturer, Math. Phys. 118 (1988), 1–14. MR 90a:58170; Collège de France, 1990. Awards: New York Acad- 6. Noncommutative geometry and mathematical emy of Sciences Prize for the Mathematical and physics, New Symmetry Principles in Quantum Physical Sciences, 1979; Dannie Heinemann Prize Field Theory, Plenum Press, London, 1992. MR for Mathematical Physics, 1980. Committees and 94f:46095. panels: Member, David Committee: committee’s Statement: This was a banner year for math- work led to the report, “Renewing American ematics, with major mathematical progress made Mathematics” (1981–1984); author of the ap- in many areas! We are certainly doing something pendix, Ordering the universe: The role of math- right and justifiably might conclude that math- ematics; member of several visiting committees, ematics is fundamentally healthy. However, we including Princeton University, 1977–1980,