THE AUTHORS THE AUTHORS THE AUTHORS Notices of the American Mathematical Society Karim Adiprasito Karim Adiprasito January 2017 Karim Adiprasito FEATURES June Huh June Huh 8 32 2626 June Huh JMM 2017 Lecture Sampler The Graduate Student Hodge Theory of Barry Simon, Alice Silverberg, Lisa Section Matroids Jeffrey, Gigliola Staffilani, Anna Interview with Arthur Benjamin Karim Adiprasito, June Huh, and Wienhard, Donald St. P. Richards, by Alexander Diaz-Lopez Eric Katz Tobias Holck Colding, Wilfrid Gangbo, and Ingrid Daubechies WHAT IS?...a Complex Symmetric Operator by Stephan Ramon Garcia Graduate Student Blog Enjoy the Joint Mathematics Meetings from near or afar through our lecture sampler and our feature on Hodge Theory, the subject of a JMM Current Events Bulletin Lecture. This month's Graduate Student Section includes an interview Eric Katz Eric Katz with Arthur Benjamin, "WHAT IS...a Complex Symmetric Operator?" and the latest "Lego Graduate Student" craze. Eric Katz The BackPage announces the October caption contest winner and presents a new caption contest for January. As always, comments are welcome on our webpage. And if you're not already a member of the AMS, I hope you'll consider joining, not just because you will receive each issue of these Notices but because you believe in our goal of supporting and opening up mathematics. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 40 My Year as an AMS Congressional Fellow Anthony J. Macula 44 AMS Trjitzinsky Awards Program Celebrates Its Twenty-Fifth Year 47 Origins of Mathematical Words A Review by Andrew I. Dale 54 Aleksander (Olek) Pelczynski, 1932–2012 Edited by Joe Diestel 73 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Matroids (top) and Dispersion in a Prism (bottom), from this month's contributed features; see pages 8 and 26. Notices AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY of the American Mathematical Society Now Available! IN EVERY ISSUE 50 BookShelf 52 Mathematics People 60 Mathematics Opportunities 62 Inside the AMS 63 New Publications Offered by the AMS 68 Classified Advertisements Gallery of the Infinite 71 Mathematics Calendar Richard Evan Schwartz, Brown University, Providence, RI 75 Meetings and Conferences of the AMS Gallery of the Infinite is a mathematician’s unique view of the infinitely many sizes of infinity. Written in a playful 96 The Back Page yet informative style, it introduces important concepts from set theory (including the Cantor Diagonalization Method and the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem) using col- orful pictures, with little text and almost no formulas. It requires no specialized background and is suitable for anyone with an interest in the infinite, from advanced middle-school students to inquisitive adults. 2016; 187 pages; Softcover; ISBN: 978-1-4704-2557-9; List US$29; AMS members US$23.20; Order code MBK/97 Also written by Richard Evan Schwartz: (800)321-4267 (US & Canada) (401)455-4000 (Worldwide).