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Seeing the Monodromy Group of a Blaschke Product
This article aims to demonstrate how phase plots can serve as tools for exploring algebraic properties of complex functions. To illustrate these ideas, we have chosen the class of Blaschke products. In particular, we study their monodromy groups and investigate whether a given function is a (nontrivial) composition.
CAT(0) Geometry, Robots, and Society
This article seeks to explain that, for many objects that move discretely, the resulting “map of possibilities” is a CAT(0) cubical complex: a space of nonpositive curvature made of unit cubes. When this is the case, we can use ideas from geometric group theory and combinatorics to move an object optimally from one given position to another.
From Permutation Patterns to the Periodic Table
This article first presents a brief overview of pattern avoidance and a survey of enumeration results. Then, we turn our attention to a newer optimization problem of pattern packing. We survey pattern packing results in the general case before we consider packing in a specific type of permutation that leads to a surprising connection with physical chemistry.
Invitations from the AMS
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Early Career
A community project since 2019, these thematic-compilations of articles inform graduate students, job seekers, early career academics, and mentors.
- 1. Hitting the Wall by Laura Taalman
- 2. The Unnecessary Struggle of Self-Mandated Isolation by Alicia Prieto-Langarica
- 3. A View of Mathematics from Behind the Veil by Robin Wilson
- 4. A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed by Terence Tao
- 5. My Journey from Slippery Rock to Duluth by Joseph Gallian
From the Secretary
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- 2019 Contributors
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- Calls for Nominations: Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference, Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department, Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
- State of the AMS: Report of the Executive Director
- Voting Information for 2020 AMS Election
Education
A new section for 2019 whose articles discuss and highlight reports, surveys, trends, and the pivotal role education plays in STEM.
- Don’t Miss the Boat, Mini-Conference Presenters Urge
- Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics—How Are We Doing?
- Reflections of a Mathematics Teacher Educator: Considerations for Mathematicians Who Teach Teachers
- Three Countries, Two Continents: Common Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching First-Year Mathematics
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Congressional Briefings April 2020
AMS President Jill Pipher to Congress: "No Longer Secure: Cryptography in the Quantum Era"
Keystones May 2020
Probabilistic Inference for Trust
Math Outside The Bubble June/July 2020
"Creative Mathematician" Transforms Student Errors into "Sartorial Celebration"
Math Reviews® News June/July 2020
Jane Kister: Executive Editor Extraordinaire
Short Stories
On the Kinematic Formula in the Lives of the Saints
Washington Update December 2019
What the AMS Office of Government Relations is doing to connect the mathematics community to DC decision makers.
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