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Abbreviations: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Mathematical Society (AMS); American Statistical Association (ASA); Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL); Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM); Canadian Mathematical Society, Société Mathématique du Canada (CMS); Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS); Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Insti- tute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS); International Mathematical Union (IMU); London Mathematical Society (LMS); Mathematical Association of America (MAA); Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI); National Academy of Sciences (NAS); National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM); National Science Foundation (NSF); Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). President Association for Advancement of Science, 2002, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008, SIAM 2009. John Guckenheimer Selected Publications: 1. with P. Holmes, Nonlinear Oscilla- A. R. Bullis Professor of Mathe- tions, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields, matics, Cornell University, Ithaca, Springer-Verlag, 1983. MR0709768 (85f:58002); 2. with NY. S. Johnson, Distortion of S-unimodal maps, Ann. of Math. Born: September 26, 1945, Baton (2), 132 (1990), No. 1, 71–130. MR1059936 (91g:58157); Rouge, LA, USA. 3. with S. Gueron and R. Harris-Warrick, The dynamics of Ph.D.: University of California, a conditionally bursting neuron, Phil. Trans., 341 (1993), Berkeley, 1970. 345–359; 4. with M. Wechselberger and L.–S. Young, Cha- Selected Addresses: ICM Berke- otic attractors of relaxation oscillators, Nonlinearity 19 ley, Invited Address on behalf (2006), No. 3, 701–720. MR2209295 (2006k:37085); 5. with of Michael Jakobson, 1986; Past C. Kuehn, Computing slow manifolds of saddle type, SIAM Presidential Address, SIAM, 1999; J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 8 (2009), No. 3, 854–879. MR2533627 Charles Amick Lecturer, Univer- (2010g:37156). sity of Chicago, 1999; Frontiers Lecturer, Texas A&M, Statement: As president of the AMS, I will enthusiastically 2000; New Zealand Society of Mathematics Lecturer, 2000. pursue its goals, which include promoting mathemati- Additional Information: SIAM Board of Trustees, 1994– cal research and communicating its results, supporting 1999, President, 1997–1998, Founding Chair, Activity mathematical education at all levels, advancing the status Group on Life Sciences, 1999–2001, Chair, Activity Group of the profession and fostering connections with other on Dynamical Systems, 2003–2005, Mathematics Aware- disciplines. ness Month Advisory Committee, 2011; Boards of Direc- tors/Trustees of Mathematics Institutes: MSRI, 1982–1985, Recent financial crises have constricted professional Fields Institute, 2004–2008, MBI 2008–; Advisory Boards: opportunities for young mathematicians and threaten European Science Foundation Network on Nonlinear Sci- the resources we need for our work. In response, the AMS ence, 1988–1991, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell needs to advocate even more strongly the importance of University, 1989–1991, The Geometry Center, 1992–1996; mathematics. Indeed, the current era demands that we do Panel member, International Review of Mathematics in more. Society expects us to participate in research that United Kingdom, 2003; Fellow, American Association for enhances human welfare and ameliorates the increasing Advancement of Science, 2002, American Academy of Arts environmental impacts of mankind. It behooves us to and Sciences, 2008, SIAM, 2009; Editorial Boards: Physica accept this responsibility and enlarge the scope of our D, 1986–1992, SIAM Review, 1989–1986, Journal of Experi- activities. Fundamental mathematics research has much mental Mathematics, 1995–2007, Moscow Mathematical to gain from this engagement. The infusion of problems Journal, 2001–, SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Sys- and insights from other disciplines has long stimulated tems, 2002–; Guggenheim Fellow, 1984; Fellow, American far reaching mathematical discoveries, for example in the 1154 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 58, NUMBER 8 From the AMS Secretary—Election Special Section work of Gauss. I am well prepared to lead the AMS in ad- 2001–2002; Journal of Representation Theory: Manag- dressing these issues. ing Editor, 1996–2003, Editorial Board, 2003–; Member, Throughout my career, I have pursued mathematics Board of Directors, The Giving Back Fund, (http://www. research on dynamical systems together with interdisci- givingback.org) 2000–; Member, American Academy of plinary collaborations. I have been fortunate to participate Arts and Sciences, 1996–; Levi Conant Prize for Mathemati- in mathematical discoveries that give striking insight into cal Exposition, 2011. universal phenomena occurring in seemingly unrelated Selected Publications: 1. The unitary dual of GL(n) over settings. The diversity of my research is reflected by pub- an Archimedean field, Invent. Math., 83 (1986), No. 3, lications in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and 449–505. MR0827363 (87i:22042); 2. Unitary Represen- engineering journals and by two books that make math- tations of Reductive Lie Groups, Annals of Mathematics ematics accessible to broader scientific audiences. My col- Studies, Princeton University Press, 1987. MR0908078 laborations have posed fascinating questions that became (89g:22024); 3. with J. Adams and D. Barbasch, The part of my mathematics research and contributed to my Langlands Classification and Irreducible Characters for skills in representing mathematics to larger communities. Real Reductive Groups, Progress in Mathematics, 104, My experience includes a term as president of the Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., 1992. MR1162533 (93j:22001); 4. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a depart- with A. Knapp, Cohomological Induction and Unitary Rep- ment chairmanship and membership on boards of three resentations, Princeton Mathematical Series, 45, Princeton mathematics institutes. I have continuously championed University Press, 1995. MR1330919 (96c:22023); 5. The the importance of fundamental mathematics research in character table for E , Notices Amer. Math. Soc., 54 (2007), all these endeavors, because effective solutions of many 8 No. 9, 1122–1134. MR2349532 (2008g:22020). applied problems require new mathematical theory. I will seek to deepen connections with other disciplines, thereby Statement: Most of the wonderful mathematics that I stimulating research in core mathematics and enhancing have experienced has been a gift from someone else: the status of our profession. I will be especially pleased from teachers, from fellow students, from colleagues and, to lead the AMS during the 2013 Emphasis Year on Math- perhaps most of all, from my own students. We are stew- ematics of Planet Earth, a global initiative of mathematics ards of a powerful and beautiful collection of tools. Our societies and institutes. responsibility, our privilege, and our joy is to pass along The AMS and our profession will thrive by embracing those tools, in a form even more powerful and beautiful a broad view of mathematics that engages our curiosity than we received them. The members of the AMS do this about the world around us as well as the world inside us. I work every day. It is the task of the Society to support will be honored to serve as AMS president while it extends that work, particularly in directions that we can’t do as its boundaries. individuals. The publications of the Society, from MathS- ciNet to the journals to the book series, are perhaps the David Vogan most visible presence of the Society in our daily lives. Professor of Mathematics, Massa- The meetings of the Society, the large lectures there, and chusetts Institute of Technology, the special sessions are an important part of how we give Boston, MA. mathematics to each other. All of these things have been in Born: September 8, 1954, Mercer, existence for longer than I can remember (a phrase which PA, USA. grows more impressive every day), and all of them have Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of changed, mostly for the better, in fundamental ways. I’ve Technology, 1976. learned in mathematics that new ideas are usually wrong, AMS Offices: Member at Large of and often a step backward. But occasionally—and these the Council, 1985–1987. are the occasions we are always working for—new ideas AMS Committees: Review Com- can open up our understanding with breathtaking power. mittee for JPBM, 1987; Commit- I hope to work for the AMS by thinking about change and tee on Science Policy, 1989–1991; by listening to suggestions for change, with an attitude in- Committee to Select the Gibbs Lecturer, 1990–1991; Task formed by that mathematical experience. Not surprisingly, Force on Excellence in Mathematics Scholarship, 1993– some of the areas where we mathematicians have made 1998; Committee on