From the Editor
April is Math Awareness Month on the theme of “The Future of Prediction”; with that topic in mind we provide some essays from Lisa R. Goldberg and Olle Häggström, as well as greetings from some of our fellow math societies around the world. But first, our cover feature by Alice Barbara Tumpach provides the latest on modeling surfaces. You can see much more in the contents below, right up to the Back Page, which contains a new caption contest and the announcement of January’s caption contest winner. You can post general comments and suggestions for this and future issues below. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief
Feature Articles
Alexandre Grothendieck, 1928--2014, Part 2
Michael Artin, Allyn Jackson, David Mumford and John Tate
AMS Spring Sectional Sampler
Gauge Invariance of Degenerate Riemannian Metrics
Alice Barbara Tumpach
Mathematics Awareness Month: The Future of Prediction
Communications
2015--2016 Faculty Salaries Report
William Yslas Velez, Thomas H. Barr and Colleen A. Rose
Modeling Ebola at the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI)
C. Castillo-Chavez, K. Barley, D. Bichara, D. Chowell, E. Diaz Herrera, B. Espinoza, V. Moreno, S. Towers and K. E. Yong
New Directions in Numerical Computation
Tobin A. Driscoll, Endre Suli and Alex Townsend
Report on 2014--2015 Academic Recruitment, Hiring, and Attrition
William Yslas Velez, Thomas H. Barr and Colleen A. Rose
From the AMS Secretary
- 2016 Award for Distinguished Public Service
- 2016 Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory
- 2016 David P. Robbins Prize
- 2016 E. H. Moore Research Article Prize
- 2016 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student
- 2016 Leroy P. Steele Prizes
- 2016 Levi L. Conant Prize
- 2016 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
- 2016 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Graduate Students
Comments
Volume 63 · Issue 04
20 Years Ago in The Notices
"Group Representations and Harmonic Analysis from Euler to Langlands", by Anthony W. Knapp (Notices, April 1996). Master expositor Knapp traces the threads of contemporary research in harmonic analysis back to the eighteenth century (the first of a two-part article).
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