ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) of the American Mathematical Society December 2018 Volume 65, Number 11 The Mathematics of Richard Schoen page 1349 Ad Honorem Yves Meyer page 1378 Felix Browder (1927–2016) page 1398 THE 2019 AMS EMPLOYMENT CENTER AT THE JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETINGS, HALL E, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland January 16–18, 2019 OPEN HOURS: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Only Photo Credits: Kate Awtrey, Atlanta Conventioninterviewing Photography a few people? Try a ONE DAY TABLE Visit www.ams.org/emp-reg for registration instructions. Notices of the American Mathematical Society December 2018 FEATURED 1349684 1378 261398 The Mathematics of Ad Honorem Yves Meyer Felix Browder (1927–2016) Richard Schoen We close the year with tributes to Rick Schoen, who won the 2017 Wolf Prize, and Yves Meyer, who won the 2017 Abel Prize. We remember Felix Browder, former president of our Society, recognized by President Clinton with the National Medal of Science. We finish our term as editors with much gratitude (see page 1414), especially for you our readers, and best wishes to the incoming Editor-in-Chief Erica Flapan (see page 1412) and all. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief ALSO IN THIS ISSUE ALSO IN THIS ISSUE, CT'D. 1412 Erica Flapan to Top Notices Masthead 1444 Fostering Inclusive Communities Sophia D. Merow Katharine A. Ott 1414 Goodbye 1487 2018 Notices Index Frank Morgan 1415 Letter to the Editor: Young Cathleen Morawetz and the Fields Medal GRADUATE STUDENT SECTION 1424 Book Review: Humanizing Mathematics and its 1416 Wei Ho Interview Philosophy Alexander Diaz-Lopez Joseph Auslander 1419 WHAT IS...a Multilayer Network? 1431 Report on 2016–2017 Academic Recruitment, Mason A. Porter Hiring, and Attrition Amanda L. Golbeck, omas H. Barr, and Colleen A. 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His Preface older brothers, Hal and Jim, were both math majors and For more than forty years Richard Schoen has been a inspired him to study mathematics. leading figure in geometric analysis, connecting ideas In 1972 Schoen (Figure 1) graduated summa cum between analysis, geometry, topology, and physics in fas- laude from the University of Dayton and received an cinating and unexpected ways. In 2017 Richard Schoen NSF Graduate Fellowship.