2021 Election - American Mathematical Society

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Acronyms: AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science); AMS (American Mathematical Society); ASA (American Statistical Association); AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics); CBMS (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences); IAS (Institute for Advanced Study); ICM (International Congress of Mathematicians); IMA (Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications); IMU (International Mathematical Union); IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics); LMS (London Mathematical Society); MAA (Mathematical Association of America); MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute); NAS (National Academy of Sciences); NRC (National Research Council); NSF (National Science Foundation); PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences); SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics); STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

Candidate Biographies

FROM THE AMS SECRETARY

2021 Election

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PresidentDavid JerisonProfessor of Mathematics, MIT

PhD: Princeton University, 1980

AMS Offices: Vice President, 2017–2020.

AMS Committees: Associate Edi-tor, Transactions and Memoirs of the

AMS, 1991–1995; Associate Editor, Notices of the AMS, 1998–2000; Editorial Boards Committee, 1998–2001; Notices Editor Search Committee, 1999; Colloquium Lec-ture Committee, 1999–2002; Nominating Committee, 2004–2006; Bôcher Prize Selection Committee, 2010.

Selected Addresses: Invited AMS Address, Salt Lake City, 1987; Invited Speaker, ICM, Zürich, 1994; Principal Lec-turer, CBMS Conference, Wayne State University, 2003; Plenary Lecturer, SIAM Analysis of PDE Conference, Miami, 2009; Principal Lecturer, Minicourse for Symposium on Analysis and PDEs, Purdue University, 2015.

Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1980–1982; Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1985; Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985–1990; Fellow,

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999; Chair, MIT Pure Math Committee, 2002–2004, 2009–2011; Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT’s highest undergraduate teaching award, 2004; Faculty advisor to over 250 under-graduate and high school research projects over twelve years during 2006–present in SPUR (Summer Program for Undergraduate Research) and RSI (Research Science Institute); Lecturer for MIT Open Courseware single vari-able calculus class with nearly ten million distinct views since 2007; Bergman Prize, 2012; Fellow, AMS, 2012; MIT Institute Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, 2012–2015 (Chair, 2014–2015); Principal designer of online single variable calculus class offered on edX starting in 2015; Simons Fellowship, 2018; Guggen-heim Fellowship, 2019. Non-AMS Editorial Boards: Duke Mathematical Journal, 1988–present; Journal of Geometric Analysis, 1990–2006; Asterisque, 1996–2000; Current De-velopments in Mathematics, 1996–present; International Mathematics Research Notes, 1998–2000; Inventiones Math-ematicae, 2000–2009; Cambridge Journal of Mathematics, 2013–present.

Selected Publications: 1. with J. M. Lee, Extremals for the Sobolev inequality on the Heisenberg group and the CR Yamabe problem, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1988), no. 1, 1–13. MR0924699 (89b:53063); 2. The diameter of the first nodal line of a convex domain, Ann. of Math. (2) 141 (1995), no. 1, 1–33. MR1314030 (95k:35148); 3. A

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PresidentBryna KraSarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern Uni-versity

PhD: Stanford University, 1995

AMS Offices: Member at Large, 2008–2014; Executive Committee of the Council, 2010–2014; Board of

Trustees, 2016–2021 (Chair, 2019–2020).

AMS Committees: Associate Editor, Bulletin of the Amer-ican Mathematical Society, 2006–present; Committee on Ethics in Hiring, 2008–2009; Central Section Program Committee, 2008–2010; Committee on the Profession, 2008–2010, 2016–2017; Editor, Proceedings of the Ameri-can Mathematical Society, 2008–2012; Taskforce on Prizes, 2009–2011; Committee on Committees, 2009–2011, 2012–2014; Selection Committee for Programs that Make a Difference, 2010–2011; Taskforce on Open Access Publish-ing, 2013–2014; Fellows Selection Committee, 2013–2016; Colloquium Lecture Committee, 2014–2017; Prize Venue Committee, 2016–2017; Committee on Meetings and Con-ferences, 2017–2018; Congressional Fellowship Selection Committee, 2017–2018; Fund for the Next Generation, 2017–2019; Executive Committee and Board of Trustees Nominating Committee, 2018–2019; Committee on Edu-cation, 2018–2019, 2020–2021; Audit and Risk Committee, 2018–2020; Long Range Planning Committee, 2018–2020; Associate Editor, Notices of the American Mathematical Soci-ety, 2019; Committee on Publications, 2019–2020; Agenda and Budget Committee, 2019–2020; Secretary Search Committee, 2019–2020; Liaison Committee, 2019–2020; Salary Committee, 2019–2020; Development Committee, 2019–2021; Committee on Science Policy, 2020–2021; Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, 2020–2021; Editorial Board, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 2020–present; Mathematics Research Communities Advi-sory Board, 2021–2022.

Selected Addresses: Invited Sectional Talk, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, 2006; Invited Ad-dress, AMS Fall Sectional Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, 2006; AMS–MAA Invited Address, Joint Meeting of AMS–MAA, New Orleans, LA, 2007; Arnold Ross Lecture of the AMS, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, 2013; AWM–AMS Noether Lecture, Joint Meeting of AMS–MAA, Baltimore, MD, 2019.

Additional Information: Centennial Fellowship, AMS, 2006; Chair, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern

Minkowski problem for electrostatic capacity, Acta Math. 176 (1996), no. 1, 1–47. MR1395668 (97e:31003); 4. with L. A. Caffarelli and C. E. Kenig, Some new monotonicity theorems with applications to free boundary problems, Ann. of Math. (2) 155 (2002), no. 2, 369–404. MR1906591 (2003f:35068); 5. with L. Levine and S. Sheffield, Loga-rithmic fluctuations for internal DLA, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (2012), no. 1, 271–301. MR2833484 (2012i:60093).

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to stand for elec-tion as president of the AMS. If elected, it will be a joy to represent and serve the mathematical community. We live in a golden age of mathematics, and I look forward to explaining our subject and the importance of our work to a broad audience.

I trace my beginnings as a mathematician to the sum-mers I spent as a camper and counselor at the Ross Program at OSU. I have spent many subsequent summers at MIT talking to undergraduates and high school students about research projects and helping graduate student mentors. I have also taught many large, elementary classes and put my lectures and problem sets online on MIT’s Open Course-ware, MITx, and edX.

I am very grateful to have been given many opportunities to learn new mathematics, moving from Fourier analysis to PDE, geometry, and physics. I am proud that my work in an ongoing Simons Collaboration on waves in disorder has had an impact on the real world, contributing to an algorithm crucial to improving the efficiency of LEDs.

The AMS strives to give each of us the kinds of oppor-tunities I have had. AMS programs helped me meet new people, learn of new developments, and find new research directions. We must maintain that role with our excellent staff and the host of volunteers reviewing papers, editing journals, and organizing meetings.

The Society also has an increasingly important duty to help students, beginning researchers, and teachers navigate their careers. The pandemic year has been a difficult one for many and a traumatic one for some. There is great un-certainty as I write in March 2021; we may have to focus on practical and moral support for mathematicians, young and old, in a newly skewed environment.

One virtue of the US mathematical community is that it is variegated and disorganized. Unlike in many coun-tries, the US system allows for more than one route to success—not the least by coming from another country. The AMS has found a few ways to widen the appeal of and access to mathematical careers. But the discussion of how to encourage inclusiveness needs to continue. I approach this problem with humility. I don’t know the answers, and I will listen to yours.

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Fellowship, affording me productive time to think and write. Perhaps most importantly, this fellowship helped me maintain research momentum while juggling the demands of a household and family with young children. As a way of giving back to the AMS community, I have served on all policy committees and numerous others, co-organized a Mathematics Research Community program, and served on the Council, Executive Committee, and Board of Trustees.

The AMS provides research support to a large swath of the mathematics community, and it is time to expand its reach and broaden its constituency. I will continue working to increase participation of historically underrepresented groups in AMS activities, providing support for all mathe-maticians and future mathematicians, while preserving the commitment to the highest standards of research mathe-matics. The AMS also plays a key role in the teaching and mentoring of the next generation, who face challenges of reduced funding and increased work load. I will continue to seek creative solutions to address the growing stresses on our community, communicating with the general public to make a compelling case for the support of mathematics. I look forward to working with the AMS, promoting both mathematics and mathematicians.

Vice PresidentJesús A. De LoeraProfessor of Mathematics and Chair of the Graduate Group of Applied Mathematics, University of Califor-nia, Davis

PhD: Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 1995

AMS Committees: Member at Large, AMS Council (special assignment to Committee on Edu-cation), 2012–2017; AMS Representative to International Congress of Mathematics Education (ICME), 2015–2017; Member, AMS Executive Committee, 2015–2019; Task Force for creation of a Prize Oversight Committee, 2019–2020.

Selected Addresses: Plenary Speaker, 2nd Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM), Montreal, May 2009; Plenary Speaker, MAA Halmos Distinguished Lecture Series, Carriage House, Washington, DC, September 2012; Plenary Speaker, 2017 SIAM Conference in Applied Algebraic Geometry, Georgia Tech, July 2017; Plenary Speaker, 2018 FPSAC (Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics), Dartmouth College, July 2018; Plenary Speaker, AMS Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January 2019.

Additional Information: Awards and Distinctions: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2004; UC Davis

University, 2009–2012; Levi L. Conant Prize, 2010; Board of Trustees, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathemat-ics, 2011–2015; Inaugural Fellow, AMS, 2012; Executive Committee, Association for Women in Mathematics, 2014–2018; Steering Committee, Park City Mathematics Institute, 2014–2018; Founder, Graduate Research Op-portunities for Women (GROW) Conferences (recipient of 2020 AMS Programs That Make a Difference Award); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016; Simons Fellow, 2016–2017, 2021–2022; Advisory Board, MoMath, National Museum of Mathematics, 2018–present; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2019; Co-founder and Co-organizer, Causeway Postbaccalaureate Program, 2019–present.

Selected Publications: 1. with B. Host, Nonconventional ergodic averages and nilmanifolds, Ann. of Math. (2) 161 (2005), no. 1, 397–488. MR2150389; 2. The Green–Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes: an ergo-dic point of view, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 43 (2006), no. 1, 3–23. MR2188173; 3. with V. Bergelson and B. Host, Multiple recurrence and nilsequences, with an appendix by Imre Ruzsa, Invent. Math. 160 (2005), no. 2, 261–303. MR2138068; 4. with V. Cyr, Nonexpansive ℤ2-subdynamics and Nivat’s conjecture, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 367 (2015), no. 9, 6487–6537. MR3356945; 5. with V. Cyr, Counting generic measures for a subshift of linear growth, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 21 (2019), no. 2, 355–380. MR3896204.

Statement by Candidate: I would be honored to serve as president of the American Mathematical Society. I look for-ward to strengthening the fundamental role of the Society in advancing mathematics research, while also expanding its reach and broadening its constituency.

Throughout my career, I have aimed for a balance of scholarship and service. My research lies in dynamical sys-tems and ergodic theory, with an emphasis on connections to other fields of mathematics. While my scholarship is evidenced by publications and awards, I equally value my other activities that are not as easily quantifiable. I have worked to increase representation of women in math-ematics, establishing Graduate Research Opportunities for Women (GROW), an annual conference to encourage women to pursue graduate studies in the mathematical sciences. More than 500 undergraduates have already participated in GROW and the program was recognized in 2020 with the Programs that Make a Difference Award from the AMS. More recently, I co-founded the Causeway Postbaccalaureate Program, designed to increase the num-ber of mathematics PhDs awarded to people from groups historically underrepresented in mathematics.

I have been involved in the AMS throughout my career and have benefited from the support it provides. At a crucial time for my research, I was awarded an AMS Centennial

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Vice PresidentTalitha WashingtonProfessor of Mathematics and Di-rector, Clark Atlanta University and Atlanta University Center

PhD: University of Connecticut, 2001

AMS Offices: Member at Large, Council, February 2017–January 2020.

AMS Committees: Committee on Science Policy, 2017–2018; Committee on Meetings and Conferences, 2018–2020; Committee on Committees, 2019–2021.

Selected Addresses: Virginia L. Chatelain Memorial Lec-turer, Kansas State University, 2017; MAA James R. C. Leit-zel Lecturer, 2018; Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium, University of Michigan, 2018; Data Science Coast to Coast Seminar Series, Six Academic Data Science Institutes, 2020; NAM Cox-Talbot Address, 2021.

Additional Information: Phi Beta Kappa, Academic Honor Society, Gamma of the District of Columbia Chapter at Howard University, April 2017; James R. C. Leitzel Lecturer and Prize Winner, Mathematical Association of America, August 2018; ASI Fellow, African Scientific Institute (ASI), December 2018; BEYA STEM Innovator Award, Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA), February 2019; NSF Women’s History Maker, National Science Foundation (NSF), March 2019; Outstanding Faculty Award 2018–19, College of Arts and Sciences (COAS), Howard University, April 2019; Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Honor Society, Howard University Chapter, April 2019; Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment, National Science Founda-tion (NSF), May 2020; Fellow of the American Mathemat-ical Society, 2021; Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2021. Professional Associations other than AMS: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Statistical Association (ASA); Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM); Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS); Mathematical Association of America (MAA); National Association of Mathematicians (NAM); National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM); National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE); Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS); Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM); Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB).

Chancellor’s Award in undergraduate research mentoring, 2013; Fellow of the AMS, 2014; Golden Section Teaching Award of the Mathematical Association of America, 2017; Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathemat-ics, 2019; Winner of the Farkas Prize, INFORMS Optimiza-tion Society, 2020. Editorial Boards: SIAM Journal of Applied Algebra and Geometry; SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics; Discrete Optimization. Professional Societies: AMS, SIAM, MAA, and INFORMS. Scientific Boards: AIM, ICERM. He has been part of the program committees of many inter-national conferences and workshops.

Selected Publications: 1. with T. Hogan, Stochastic Tver-berg theorems with applications in multiclass logistic regression, separability, and centerpoints of data, SIAM J. Math. Data Sci. 2 (2020), no. 4, 1151–1166. MR4185083; 2. with X. Goaoc, F. Meunier, and N. Mustafa, The discrete yet ubiquitous theorems of Carathéodory, Helly, Sperner, Tucker, and Tverberg, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (2019), no. 3, 415–511. MR3974609; 3. with S. Borgwardt and E. Fin-hold, The Hirsch conjecture holds true for all network-flow polytopes, Mathematical Programming 171 (2018), no. 1–2, Ser. A, 283–309. MR3844539; 4. with R. Hemmecke and M. Köppe, Algebraic and geometric ideas in the theory of discrete optimization, SIAM–MOS Series on Optimization, vol. 14, SIAM, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61197-243-6, 322 pp. MR3024570; 5. with F. Santos and J. Rambau, Triangula-tions: Structures for algorithms and applications, Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol. 25, Springer-Verlag, 2010, 545 pp. MR2743368.

Statement by Candidate: AMS has a responsibility to positively influence the future of mathematics worldwide. I am honored by the opportunity to serve. I particularly care about: 1) An AMS for everyone: How can we open mathe-matical opportunities to more people? The failure to attract underrepresented groups to careers in mathematics is not only a moral failure but it threatens the sustainability of a high-tech economy. AMS must become the example of a welcoming and inclusive organization. 2) AMS as advocate for mathematics: How can we make decision makers and the public recognize that mathematics is key to a modern society? What are good strategies to convince others that mathematics truly matters and it deserves more support and interest? 3) AMS as infrastructure builder: How can AMS help design and support the future infrastructure for mathematicians? AMS has been successful in creating wonderful popular tools (e.g., MathSciNet, Mathjobs.org, Math Reviews), but what are new roles that AMS can play in the development and use of technology for education and research? What role should AMS play in the affordable distribution of mathematics content at all levels and world-wide (over the internet and other media or new formats, e.g., videoclips, multilingual books, games)?

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Board of TrusteesJennifer TabackIsaac Henry Wing Professor of Math-ematics, Bowdoin College

PhD: University of Chicago, 1998

AMS Offices: Council, 2014–2018; Executive Committee, 2016–2018.

AMS Committees: Eastern Sectional Program Committee, 2012–2014; Rebranding Committee, 2016–2017; Campaign for the Next Generation, Co-chair, 2017–2019.

Selected Addresses: Automorphisms of Diestel–Leader groups, Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Ap-plications, Invited Speaker, The City College of New York, 2013; The large scale geometry of some infinite groups, Colloquium, Dartmouth College, 2018; Medium-scale curvature in solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups, Geometric Group Theory Seminar, Tufts University, 2018; Growth and medium-scale curvature in solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups, New York Group Theory Seminar, 2019; Groups, graphs and trees, Claremont Colloquium, Claremont Colleges, 2021.

Additional Information: NSF research grants, 2003, 2006, and 2011; Collaborative seminar in algebra and topology, 2007; Mellon Foundation Grants: Crossing Boundaries: Fostering communication and collaboration among alge-braists, number theorists and topologists, 2010; Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians, 2014.

Selected Publications: 1. with A. Akhmedov and M. Stein, Free limits of Thompson’s group F, Geom. Dedicata 155 (2012), no. 1, 163–176. MR2863899; 2. with S. Cleary, S. Hermiller, and M. Stein, Tame combing and almost con-vexity conditions, Math. Z. 269 (2011), no. 3, 879–915. MR2860269; 3. with M. Stein and P. Wong, Automorphisms of higher rank lamplighter groups, Internat. J. Algebra Com-put. 25 (2015), no. 8, 1275–1299. MR3438162; 4. with A. Walker, Conjugation curvature in solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups, to appear in Journal of Topology and Analysis; 5. with A. Walker, A new proof of the growth rate of the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups, to appear in Geometriae Dedicata.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to stand for nom-ination to the Board of Trustees. Throughout my career I have sought to bring people into the mathematical commu-nity and provide opportunities encouraging their success. As a Board member, I would work with AMS leadership to support programs increasing participation in our discipline

Selected Publications: 1. with R. E. Mickens, A note on a positivity preserving nonstandard finite difference scheme for a modified parabolic reaction-advection-diffusion PDE, J. Difference Equ. Appl. 26 (2020), no. 11-12, 1423–1427. MR4188867; 2. with O. Adekanye, Nonstandard finite difference scheme for a Tacoma Narrows Bridge model, Appl. Math. Model. 62 (2018), 223–236. MR3834137; 3. with V. R. Morris, The role of professional societies in STEM diversity, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 65 (2018), no. 2, 149–159, reprinted with permission of NTA; 4. with R. De Veaux, M. Agarwal, M. Averett, B. Baumer, A. Bray, T. Bres-soud, L. Bryant, L. Cheng, A. Francis, R. Gould, A. Y. Kim, M. Kretchmar, Q. Lu, A. Moskol, D. Nolan, R. Pelayo, S. Raleigh, R. J. Sethi, M. Sondjaja, N. Tiruviluamala, P. Uhlig, C. Wesley, D. White, and P. Ye, Curriculum guidelines for undergraduate programs in data science, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 4 (2017), 2.1–2.16; 5. with R. E. Mickens and J. Munyakazi, A note on the exact discret-ization for a Cauchy-Euler equation: Application to the Black-Scholes equation, J. Difference Equ. Appl. 21 (2015), no. 7, 547–552. MR3376179.

Statement by Candidate: I am the inaugural director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative and a full professor of mathematics at Clark Atlanta University. As director, I oversee and provide strategic direction and coor-dination of data science research, education, and industry engagement across Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman Col-lege, and the AUC Woodruff Library. As a former program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Convergence Accelerator, we leveraged research such as AI, quantum, and technology to deliver significant societal impact. Previously, I was instrumental in building and establishing NSF’s first Hispanic-Serving Institutions Pro-gram, which funded $40,000,000 in awards in FY19. My research interests include the applications of differential equations to problems in biology and engineering and the development of nonstandard finite difference schemes to numerically solve dynamical systems. In 2019, I received the distinguished Outstanding Faculty Award from Howard University. In 2020, I received the NSF Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment. Previously, I served on the AMS Council and am honored to be an AMS Fellow and an AWM Fellow. If you elect me to be your AMS vice president, I will strategically work to position our AMS to best support mathematical research and scholarship.

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for Research Inc., Vice President 2012–2018, President 2018; Vice President, Kansas University Center for Tech-nology Commercialization, 2018; Co-chair of the Human Resources Advisory Committee and Ex officio Member of the Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, California, 2019–2021; Member of the Board of Directors, Institute for Research on Innova-tion & Science (IRIS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2019–2021; Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, University of California, River-side, 2019–present; Member of the Executive Committee, Council on Research, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), 2020–2023.

Selected Publications: 1. Boundedness results for op-erators with singular kernels on distribution spaces, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 90 (1991), no. 442. MR1048075 (91g:47044); 2. with R. Prum, S. Williamson, and J. Dick, Coherent light scattering by blue feather barbs, Nature 396 (1998), 28–29; 3. with L. Grafakos, Multilinear Calderón–Zygmund theory, Adv. Math. 165 (2002), no. 1, 124–164. MR1880324 (2002j:42029); 4. with Á. Bényi, C. Demeter, A. R. Nahmod, C. M. Thiele, and P. Villarroya, Modulation invariant bilinear T(1) theorem, J. Anal. Math. 109 (2009), 279–352. MR2585397 (2011b:42032); 5. with Á. Bényi, J. M. Martell, K. Moen, and E. Stachura, Boundedness results for commutators with BMO functions via weighted esti-mates: a comprehensive approach, Math. Ann. 376 (2020), no. 1–2, 61–102. MR4055156.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to be nominated for the AMS Board of Trustees. I have been fortunate to serve in numerous boards and leadership appointments, which have allowed me to promote mathematics and science in different contexts, as well as have oversight and fiduciary responsibility for several organizations. The Board of Trustees’ charge is to conduct the business and financial affairs of the Society, and I am looking forward to utilizing my experience in this role and further my efforts to aid the AMS in advancing the scientific and other diverse interests of our vibrant mathematical community.

Member at LargeIan AgolProfessor, UC Berkeley

PhD: UCSD, 1998

AMS Committees: Editorial Boards Committee, 2019.

and promoting new research, and to oversee the Society’s financial policies. My AMS service includes the Council and Executive Committee, and I co-chaired the Campaign for the Next Generation, raising an endowment providing permanent funding for programs supporting young math-ematicians. As department chair, I have worked to build a community of scholars and students unified by shared joy in the exploration of mathematics. Additionally, I spear-headed curriculum development highlighting the use of mathematics for the common good, and fostered strong representation of women among mathematics majors. I have supported undergraduate research through NSF grants, and administered a Luce Foundation grant funding research by female students. I have worked in and founded K–12 outreach programs from Chicago to Maine, includ-ing the Bowdoin College Math Circle. As a member of the Board I would join ongoing efforts of the AMS to broaden our community and strengthen research mathematics through scholarly and professional support.

Board of TrusteesRodolfo H. TorresDistinguished Professor of Mathe-matics and Vice Chancellor for Re-search & Economic Development, University of California, Riverside

PhD: Washington University in St. Louis, 1989

AMS Committees: Central Section Program Committee, 2004 and 2005; Fellows Selection Committee, Member 2019–2022, Chair 2020.

Selected Addresses: Invited Address, AMS Sectional Meet-ing, Kent State University, 1995; Invited Hour Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Argentine Mathematical Society, Neuquen, Argentina, 2004; Invited Lecture to the Royal Academy of Science of Seville, Spain, 2011; Public Lecture, The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Providence, Rhode Island, 2016; Congressional Briefing of the Mathematical Sciences Re-search Institute and the American Mathematical Society, Washington, DC, 2018.

Additional Information: Kemper Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Kansas, 2003; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013 (inaugural class); Morrison Foundation Teaching Award, University of Kansas, 2017; Featured in Lathisms Calendar, Latin@s and Hispanics in Mathematical Sciences, 2017. Appoint-ments: President of the Faculty Senate, University of Kan-sas, 2011–2012; Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Kansas, 2012–2018; Kansas University Center

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Member at LargeArt DuvalProfessor, University of Texas at El Paso

PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology, 1991

AMS Committees: JMM Program Committee, 2020–2022.

Selected Addresses: Invited Plenary Speaker, Eighth Mathe-matical Society of Japan International Research Institute, on Computational commutative algebra and combinatorics, Osaka University, 1999; Invited Plenary Speaker, Com-binaTexas, Texas A&M University, 2007; Invited Plenary Speaker, Southwest Local Algebra Meeting (SLAM), Texas State University, 2016; Invited Speaker, Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics Conference, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2016; Invited Speaker, 30 Semana Nacional de Investigación y Cocencia en Matematicás, Universidad de Sonora, 2020.

Additional Information: Award for Distinguished College or Teaching of Mathematics, MAA Southwestern Section, 2005; Chancellor’s Council Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas at El Paso, 2006; Member, Item Review Panels, National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2007–2019; Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, Univer-sity of Texas System, 2009; Contributing Editor, On Teach-ing and Learning Mathematics (AMS blog), 2014–2019; Member, MAA Committee on Edyth May Sliffe Awards, 2018–2021.

Selected Publications: 1. Algebraic shifting and sequen-tially Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complexes, Electron. J. Combin. 3 (1996), no. 1, Research Paper 21, 14 pp. MR1399398; 2. Free resolutions of simplicial posets, J. Al-gebra 188 (1997), no. 1, 363–399. MR1432361; 3. with V. Reiner, Shifted simplicial complexes are Laplacian integral, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), no. 11, 4313–4344. MR1926878; 4. with C. J. Klivans and J. L. Martin, Sim-plicial matrix-tree theorems, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), no. 11, 6073–6114. MR2529925; 5. with B. Goeck-ner, C. J. Klivans, and J. L. Martin, A non-partitionable Co-hen-Macaulay simplicial complex, Adv. Math. 299 (2016), 381–395. MR3519473.

Statement by Candidate: The pandemic was a great chal-lenge for the world, including the academic community. We quickly learned how to teach online, and even hold conferences online. As we welcome the gradual return to normal, we can also look for opportunities to keep those

Member at LargeGunnar CarlssonProfessor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University


Selected Addresses: Invited Address, AMS Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, 1984; Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berke-

ley, CA, 1986; Rademacher Lectures, University of Pennsyl-vania, Philadelphia, PA, 2011; AMS Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting of SIAM, Minneapolis, MN, 2012; Joint Invited Address, AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2018.

Additional Information: Worked on California Mathe-matics Academic Content Standards for the State Board of Education, jointly with R. Cohen, S. Kerckhoff, and R. J. Milgram, 1997–1998; Initiator (with Rick Jardine) of the ATMCS series of conferences in computational topol-ogy, 2001; Founder and former President of Ayasdi, Inc., which commercializes aspects of topological data analysis, 2008–2019; AMS Fellow, 2017.

Selected Publications: 1. Equivariant stable homotopy and Segal’s Burnside ring conjecture, Ann. of Math. 120 (1984), 189–224. MR0763905; 2. Equivariant stable homotopy and Sullivan’s conjecture, Invent. Math. 103 (1991), no. 3, 497–526. MR1091616; 3. Topology and data, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), no. 2, 255–308. MR2476414; 4. with M. Nicolau and A. Levine, Topology based data analysis identifies a subgroup of breast cancers with a unique mu-tational profile and excellent survival, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., April 26, 2011; 5. with J. Chan and R. Rabadan, Topology of viral evolution, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110 (2013), no. 46, 18566–18571. MR3153945.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to be nominated as a member at large of the Council. I believe that it is vitally important to increase the reach of mathematics within the sciences, engineering, and the commercial world, and am committed to the idea that all mathematics is potentially applicable. I am also convinced that, because of the avail-ability of new technologies, there is now a great oppor-tunity to involve many people who have not previously been involved in the research effort. If I were to be elected, I would expect to advocate for developments in these directions, and would work to advance the development of mathematics generally. I think the opportunities for mathematics to affect the world have never been greater.

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to review IAS, 2014; Fellow, Washington Academy of Sci-ences, 2016; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Fall 2017; Selection Committee, King Faisal International Prize in Science, 2018; Faculty, Summer REU on “Low-dimensional topology and geometry,” ICERM, 2018; ICERM Scientific Advisory Board, 2019–2022.

Selected Publications: 1. with D. Fried, Three-dimensional affine crystallographic groups, Adv. in Math. 47 (1983), no. 1, 1–49. MR0689763; 2. with J. Millson, The deforma-tion theory of representations of fundamental groups of Kaehler manifolds, Publ. Math. d’IHES 67 (1988), 43–96. MR0972343; 3. Ergodic theory on moduli spaces, Ann. Math. 146 (1997), 1–33. MR1491446; 4. Complex hyperbolic geometry, Oxford Mathematical Monographs, Oxford Sci-ence Publications, The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999, xx+316 pp., ISBN: 0-19-853793-X. MR1695450; 5. with F. Labourie and G. Margulis, Proper affine actions and geodesic flows on hyperbolic surfaces, Ann. Math. 170 (2009), 1051–1083. MR2600870.

Statement by Candidate: I am deeply honored to be nominated to serve again on the AMS Council. In these challenging and rapidly changing times, the AMS plays a crucial role in representing the community of research mathematicians. Throughout my career I have tried to share my fascination with mathematics with others. Personally I feel extremely fortunate in these efforts. The NSF-funded GEAR Network has supported many researchers all over the world. Many beneficiaries are early-career mathematicians, while others are active researchers who lack external fund-ing. Fostering collaborations has been the Network’s goal. The AMS’s Mathematics Research Communities program has successfully initiated collaborations with students and postdocs. Using modern technology to both investigate and communicate research has been a key theme in my activities, from the Geometry Center, subsequent Geometry Labs, to recent activities at ICERM. If elected, I plan to give back by exploring creative ways to: (1) provide employ-ment and increase funding for students we have trained; (2) spread the benefits to a more diverse community; (3) adapt our profession to technological advances and emerg-ing interactions with other disciplines; and (4) develop outreach activities which convey the appeal and utility of mathematics to a broader audience.

new habits that improve upon, or complement, existing practices. The past year has also reminded us of the impor-tance of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This is especially true in mathematics, which for too long has not felt like a welcoming place for too many promising people. Working at a majority Hispanic university, I am keenly aware of the necessity of making information and resources readily available for those who have lacked both, and of the value of listening to a variety of voices. I have experience hosting research conferences and working with teachers, including working with our local community college and local school districts on teacher preparation. An important role for the AMS is to speak for our community, including being a fierce advocate for our discipline, our students, and our profes-sion. I would be honored by your vote for me to represent you on the AMS Council.

Member at LargeWilliam GoldmanProfessor, University of Maryland

PhD: University of California, Berke-ley, 1980

AMS Committees: AMS-IMA-SIAM Committee on Joint Summer Re-search Conferences, 2003–2006; Member at Large, Council, 2006–

2009; Committee on Education, 2006–2009; Advisory Board, Mathematics Research Communities, 2010–2014; Committee on the Profession, 2012–2015; AWM–AMS Noether Lecture Committee, 2021–2023.

Selected Addresses: Invited Address, AMS meeting, Am-herst, Massachusetts, 1990; Invited Address, ICM Hyder-abad, 2010; Distinguished Visitor, Department of Mathe-matics, Oberlin College (public lecture and two classes), 2013; Invited Address, AMS meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2014; MSRI–Evans Colloquium, “Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures,” Spring 2015.

Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1980–1981; Sloan Fellow, 1987–1989; Board of Governors, Geometry Center (Minnesota), 1992–1995; Co-founder and Co-director, Experimental Geometry Lab (Mary-land), 2000–present; Editor-in-chief, Geometriae Dedicata, 2003–2013; Director, University of Maryland VIGRE pro-gram, 2004–2010; University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar–Teacher, 2007; Co-PI and Executive Committee for GEAR Research Network in Mathematical Sciences, 2011–present; AMS Fellow, 2013 (inaugural class); Co-or-ganizer, workshop “Exotic Geometric Structures,” Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathe-matics (ICERM), 2013; Simons Fellow, 2014; NSF site visit

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remember that we all have something very special in com-mon. Even when coming from entirely different personal backgrounds, even when having different beliefs and convictions, even whether analysts or algebraists, we all share something crucial that a person who hates the word “proof” can never understand. I see one of the goals of my potential role at the Council in helping to uphold the role of the AMS as an organization that unites and welcomes us all, that promotes, advocates for, and supports our com-mon identity as mathematicians. Also, I have been greatly involved in K–12 outreach for almost 20 years and I firmly believe that K–12 is where the key efforts to diversify and strengthen our talent pool should be focused. I hope to deepen the AMS involvement in teacher training programs and outreach, as well as in advocating for changes in the curriculum at the state and national levels.

Member at LargeLily S. KhadjaviProfessor of Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University

PhD: UC Berkeley, 1999

Selected Addresses: Invited Speaker, AMS Special Session on Mathematics and Public Policy, JMM, Seattle, 2016; Invited Speaker, AMS Special Session

on Number Theory and Cryptography, JMM, Seattle, 2016; Plenary Address on “Mathematics for Social Justice, from basic examples to unexpected journeys,” MAA Southern California–Nevada Section Meeting, 2017; Plenary Address on “Women and Mathematics: Inspiration, Obstacles, and Opportunities,” Celebrating the Mathematical Legacy of Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, UCLA, 2017; Plenary Ad-dress on “Policing and the Issue of Racial Profiling in Los Angeles,” Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference, IPAM, 2018.

Additional Information: Service: Co-chair of the Infinite Possibilities Conference supporting BIPOC women in mathematics, 2012, 2015, 2018, and Board Member of Building Diversity in Science; Board Member, Harvard Gender Sexuality Caucus, 2016–2018; Co-organizer, “The Mathematics and Mathematicians Behind Hidden Figures,” JMM, 2017; Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute’s Human Resources Advisory Committee (MSRI HRAC), 2020–2023; Appointee of the Attorney General of California to the Racial Identity and Profiling Advisory Board, Stop Data Analysis Subcommittee, State and Local Policies and Accountability Subcommittee, 2020–2024. Grants: Co-PI, NSF award 1135426, 2011–2012; Co-PI, NSF award 1464089, 2015–2016; Principal Investigator,

Member at LargeSvetlana JitomirskayaDistinguished Professor of Math-ematics, University of California, Irvine

PhD: Moscow State University, 1991

AMS Committees: Editorial Boards Committee, 2002–2005; Commit-tee on Publications Representative,

2003; Western Section Program Committee, 2004–2006, Chair 2005–2006; Satter Prize Committee, 2012–2016; Centennial Fellowship Committee, 2016–2018, Chair 2017–2018.

Selected Addresses: Invited Speaker, International Con-gress of Mathematicians, Beijing, 2002; Plenary Speaker, XV International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Rio de Janeiro, 2006; Invited One-hour Address, Joint Mathemat-ics Meetings, San Antonio, 2006; Aisenstadt Lectures, CRM, Montreal, 2018; Invited Lectures, Current Developments in Mathematics, Harvard/MIT, 2019.

Additional Information: Editor: JMP, 2006–2009; JST, 2009–present; JFG, 2013–present; IMRN, 2014–present; CRM Short Course Series, 2016–present; PAFA, 2018–pres-ent; GAFA, 2018–present; BAMS Book Reviews, 2021–2024. Sloan Fellow, 1996; AMS Satter Prize, 2005; ERC Advanced Grant Panel, 2009–2017; International Association of Mathematical Physics, Vice President, 2012–2014; Simons Fellow, 2014, 2020; EMS/EWM Scientific Committee, 2014–present; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018; CRM–Fields–PIMS Prize Committee, 2018, 2019, Chair 2019; American Academy of Arts and Sciences Mathematics Membership Panel, 2019–2020; APS & AIP Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 2020.

Selected Publications: 1. Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator, Ann. of Math. (2) 150 (1999), no. 3, 1159–1175. MR1740982; 2. with J. Bourgain, Abso-lutely continuous spectrum for 1D quasiperiodic operators, Invent. Math. 148 (2002), no. 3, 453–463. MR1908056; 3. with A. Avila, The Ten Martini Problem, Ann. of Math. (2) 170 (2009). MR2521117; 4. with W. Liu, Universal hi-erarchical structure of quasiperiodic eigenfunctions, Ann. of Math. (2) 187 (2018), no. 3, 721–776. MR3779957; 5. with S. Becker and R. Han, Cantor spectrum of graphene in magnetic fields, Invent. Math. 218 (2019), no. 3, 979–1041. MR4022084.

Statement by Candidate: As mathematicians are getting more and more diverse, it is particularly important to

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International Mathematics Forum, Sanya, China, 2013; Invited Speaker, Geometric Analysis Conference at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, 2014; Invited Lecturer, Simons Center Spring School on Geometric Aspects of Gen-eral Relativity, Stony Brook, USA, 2018; Invited Lecturer, Mini-Course on Mathematical Relativity: A Riemannian Approach, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2019.

Selected Publications: 1. Geometric relativity, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, vol. 201, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2019. MR3970261; 2. with M. Eich-mair, L.-H. Huang, and R. Schoen, The spacetime positive mass theorem in dimensions less than eight, J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 18 (2016), no. 1, 83–121. MR3438380; 3. with A. Neves, The Penrose inequality for asymptotically locally hyperbolic spaces with nonpositive mass, Comm. Math. Phys. 339 (2015), no. 2, 327–352. MR3370607; 4. with H. L. Bray, On the Riemannian Penrose inequality in dimensions less than eight, Duke Math. J. 148 (2009), no. 1, 81–106. MR2515101; 5. On the near-equality case of the positive mass theorem, Duke Math. J. 148 (2009), no. 1, 63–80. MR2515100.

Statement by Candidate: It is a tremendous honor to be nominated for the AMS Council. I believe that the greatest challenge that the AMS faces today is finding ways to im-prove equity, diversity, and inclusion in the mathematical profession. These concerns permeate all aspects of the Society’s mission and its activities. I would relish the op-portunity to serve this community by supporting measures that are both ambitious and workable. If elected, I will do my best to represent the views and interests of my fellow mathematicians and work toward consensus within the Council and other policy committees to meet these chal-lenges head on and strive for improvement.

Member at LargeGail LetzterTechnical Director, Mathematics Research Group, National Security Agency


AMS Committees: Editor and Com-mittee Member, Proceedings of the AMS, 2007–2011; Committee on the

Profession, 2021–2024.

Selected Addresses: Invited Address and AWM Lecture, Lie Theory and Its Applications, UCSD, 2011; Invited Address, Algebra Extravaganza!, Temple University, 2017; Colloquium Lecture, University of Minnesota, 2017; Invited Address, Quantum Homogeneous Spaces, International

NSF award 1642548, 2016–2019; Principal Investigator, NSF award 2015440, 2020–2023.

Selected Publications: 1. with R. Malek-Madani and T. Moore, Navigating an uncharted path: The life and legacy of Dr. Gladys B. West, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 68 (2021), no. 3, 357–364; 2. with T. Moore, K. Weems, and U. Wilson, Shining a light on a hidden figure: Dorothy Hoover, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 67 (2020), no. 3, 368–372. MR4184556; 3. with R. Bryant, R. Buckmire, and D. Lind, The origins of Spectra, an organization for LGBT mathematicians, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (2019), no. 6, 875–882. MR3929579; 4. edited with G. Karaali, Mathematics for social justice: Resources for the college classroom, Classroom Resource Materials, vol. 60, MAA Press, Providence, RI, 2019, vii+277 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4704-4926-1. MR3967051; 5. Driving while black in the City of Angels, Chance 19 (2006), no. 2, 43–46. MR2247023.

Statement by Candidate: I am deeply honored to be nomi-nated as a candidate for member at large of the AMS Coun-cil. The AMS plays a critical role both in the internal health of the mathematical community and as a public face of the mathematical sciences. I believe the AMS is strengthened when a broad array of perspectives and experiences is rep-resented, as we promote mathematical research and address the needs of the community. Throughout my career, I have worked to broaden participation of women and historically underrepresented groups in the mathematical sciences with NSF-funded initiatives, and I bring an enthusiasm for supporting the research activities of mathematicians, with a focus on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. If serving on the Council, I would seek diverse viewpoints as we collectively address both ongoing, systemic issues and sudden challenges, such as the vulnerable position of stu-dents and professionals in the face of travel bans. In service to AMS members, I would also bring experience working on advisory boards for the state of California, MSRI, and other STEM-focused non-profits. These activities have informed my awareness of the vital public role that mathematics can play in creating a more equitable and just society.

Member at LargeDan A. LeeAssociate Professor, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center

PhD: Stanford, 2005

Selected Addresses: Invited Speaker, International Conference on Geome-try and Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,

2008; Invited Speaker, Third Conference of Tsinghua Sanya

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I am passionate about ensuring a positive, harass-ment-free, inclusive environment where diverse mathema-ticians can thrive. As chair of AWM’s Policy and Advocacy Committee, I drafted statements in response to troubling current events, developed policies for advancing women and underrepresented minorities, and expanded AWM’s Capitol Hill Visit advocacy initiative. I gained valuable in-sights that will aid me in advising AMS leadership during challenging times.

Member at LargeJose PereaAssistant Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Sci-ence & Engineering (CMSE) and De-partment of Mathematics, Michigan State University


Selected Addresses: Speaker, The Blackwell-Tapia Conference, NIMBioS, University of Ten-nessee-Knoxville, October 2016; Keynote Speaker, Under-represented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS 2018), Reed College, April 2018; Speaker, The Abel Symposium, Norwegian Mathematical Society, June 2018; Speaker, Minisymposium on Geometry and Topology in Data Analysis, International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia, Spain, July 2019; Plenary Speaker, XXII International Symposium on Mathematical Methods Applied to Sciences (SIMMAC), University of Costa Rica, February 2020.

Additional Information: Top 5% Teacher at Duke Uni-versity, 2013; Co-organizer, REU Summer, ICERM, 2017; Mathematically Gifted and Black honoree, 2018; NSF CAREER award, 2020; Lathisms Hispanic Heritage Month honoree, 2020; Co-organizer, AMS Mathematics Research Communities (MRCs), 2022; MAA-NAM Inaugural Lec-turer, 2022–2024.

Selected Publications: 1. Sparse circular coordinates via principal ℤ-bundles, in: N. Baas, G. Carlsson, G. Quick, M. Szymik, and M. Thaule (eds.), Topological Data Analysis, Abel Symposia, vol. 15, Springer, Cham, 2020, https:// doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43408-3_17; 2. Topo-logical time series analysis, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (2019), no. 5, 686–694, https://doi.org/10.1090 /noti1869. MR3929469; 3. with C. J. Tralie, (Quasi)peri-odicity quantification in video data, using topology, SIAM J. Imaging Sci. 11 (2018), no. 2, 1049–1077, https:// doi.org/10.1137/17M1150736. MR3796363; 4. with J. Harer, Sliding windows and persistence: An application of topological methods to signal analysis, Found. Comput.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, 2018; Invited Address, Hypergeometry, Integrability, and Lie Theory, Lo-rentz Center for Scientific Workshops, Netherlands, 2020.

Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT, 1991–1994; NSF POWRE Research Enhancement Grant, 1997–2000; Virginia Tech College of Science Teach-ing Excellence Award, 2006; Technical Director, Director’s Summer Program, NSA’s premier REU for undergraduate math majors, 2011–2012; NSA Director’s Reserve Award, 2016; Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Mathematical Sciences: Research from the 2015 AWM Research Symposium, Springer, 2016; Chair, AWM Policy and Advocacy Committee, 2016–2019; Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, AWM, 2016–2020; Invited Panelist, “Careers in Intelligence,” Gra-duCon, University of Chicago, 2018; Member, the White House National Science and Technology Council Sub-committee on Safe and Inclusive Research Environments, 2019–2020; Member, Oversight Board, UMD/NIST Joint Center for Quantum Information Science, 2019–present; AWM Fellow, Class of 2021.

Selected Publications: 1. Invariant differential operators for quantum symmetric spaces, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 193 (2008), no. 903, vi+90 pp. MR2400554; 2. Quantum zonal spherical functions and Macdonald polynomials, Adv. Math. 189 (2004), no. 1, 88–147. MR2093481; 3. Coideal subalgebras and quantum symmetric pairs, New directions in Hopf algebras, Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ., vol. 43, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002, 117–166. MR1913438; 4. with A. Joseph and S. Zelikson, On the Brylinski-Kostant filtration, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 13 (2000), no. 4, 945–970. MR1775740; 5. with A. Joseph, Separation of variables for quantized enveloping algebras, Amer. J. Math. 116 (1994), no. 1, 127–177. MR1262429.

Statement by Candidate: Through its programs, publi-cations, and outreach, AMS creates a vibrant community that reaches far beyond an individual’s workplace. I am very honored to be nominated for member at large on the Council. If elected, I will work to enhance AMS support of research and education, to strengthen connections be-tween academia, industry, and government, and to make a welcoming, inclusive environment for all mathematicians a reality.

My perspectives are shaped by a career in universities and government. I have experienced the satisfaction of discovering new theories and the excitement of solving concrete problems. As professor, I advised students on courses of study and research projects. At NSA, I created individualized problem spaces for undergraduates, younger colleagues, and academic consultants. I strongly value col-laboration and hope that my skills will help to promote a broad vision of the mathematics profession.

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and stories, Wiley & Sons, 2010; 5. with O. Bucicovschi, D. Copeland, and D. Meyer, Single-query quantum algorithms for symmetric problems, Quantum Inf. Comput. 16 (2016), 19–38. MR3495470.

Statement by Candidate: I believe that every human is born with mathematical potential and that creative teaching methods can make mathematics accessible and enjoyable for people of all backgrounds. I believe that the power of mathematics can help us understand and address the major challenges of today’s world, including climate change, racial and economic inequality, and the pandemic. I believe that increasing the mathematical literacy of the electorate would strengthen our democracy. These principles, in addition to support for basic mathematical research, should guide the AMS in fulfilling its mission.

I feel honored to be nominated to the AMS Council. If elected, my service would be informed by my experience as a researcher in several fields, a teacher, a department chair, and a textbook author. I have taught at a variety of institutions, including liberal arts colleges, prominent research universities, and large state schools with diverse populations. More than 30 summers teaching talented middle and high school students have made me passionate about fostering mathematical talent and positive attitudes toward math in young people, especially in women and underrepresented groups.

Nominating CommitteeAlejandro AdemProfessor, University of British Co-lumbia


AMS Offices: Member at Large, AMS Council, 2010–2013; Executive Com-mittee, AMS Council, 2016–2019.

AMS Committees: Selection Committee for Summer Research Conferences, 1997–2000; Editor, Transactions and Memoirs, 2005–2013; Committee on the Profession, 2008–2010 (Chair, 2009–2010); Committee on Science Policy, 2010–2013; Chair, Committee on Committees, 2011–2013, 2017–2019; Managing Editor, AMS Transactions and Memoirs, 2013–2020 (ex officio member of Council).

Selected Addresses: Plenary Address, AMS Central Section, Columbia, Missouri, 1996; Bourbaki Seminar, Paris, 2001; Plenary Address, Korean Mathematical Society, Jeju, 2008; Plenary Address, Joint Meeting of American/Mexican Math Societies, Berkeley, 2010; Plenary Address (Jeffery–Williams Prize), Canadian Math Society, Montreal, 2015.

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Statement by Candidate: I am deeply honored and ex-cited to stand for election to member at large for the AMS Council. Over the last few decades mathematics has gone through an exciting period where many areas have seen wide and compelling applications in science and engineer-ing. Today, mathematicians have the remarkable opportu-nity to help establish the technical foundations to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Not only does this further the common good, but these efforts aid in communicating to the wider public the value of investing in and training in mathematics, as well as to engage and attract traditionally underrepresented groups to the profession. If elected to serve, I will leverage my personal journey and experience to help craft directions to broaden the impact of mathematics and the participation of a vibrant community in the Society.

Member at LargeJamie PommersheimKatharine Piggott Professor of Math-ematics, Reed College


AMS Committees: Pure and Applied Undergraduate Texts Editorial Com-mittee, 2013–2021.

Selected Addresses: Lecture Series at Graduiertenkolleg, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1995; Invited Mini-course, CIRM, Luminy, France, 2012; Mathematician in Residence, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Summer 2019.

Additional Information: Instructor and Course Coordi-nator, The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, 1985–2019 (most summers); Member, IAS, 1992–1993; C.L.E. Moore Instructorship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993–1995; NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1995–1997; Visiting Faculty Member, UC San Diego, 2007–2008, 2009–2010, 2013–2014.

Selected Publications: 1. Toric varieties, lattice points, and Dedekind sums, Math. Ann. 295 (1993), 1–24. MR1198839; 2. Products of cycles and the Todd class of a toric variety, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1996), 813–826. MR1358042; 3. with H. Thomas, Cycles representing the Todd class of a toric variety, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (2004), 983–994. MR2083474; 4. with E. Flapan and T. Marks, Number theory: A lively approach with proofs, applications,

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Nominating CommitteeSylvia T. BozemanProfessor Emeritus of Mathematics, Spelman College

PhD: Emory University, 1980

AMS Committees: AMS Council, 2002–2004; Committee on Educa-tion, 2002–2004.

Selected Addresses: Invited Speaker, Inauguration of The Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium, Univ. of Michigan, 2000; Speaker, Congressional Briefing co-sponsored by MAA, Washington, DC, 2009; Invited Address, The Cox–Talbot Address of the National Association of Mathemati-cians (NAM) at JMM, Boston, 2012; Invited Address, James M. Leitzel Lecture, MAA MathFest, Milwaukee, 2012; Invited Address, Blackwell–Wilkins Keynote Speaker, Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sci-ences, Princeton Univ., 2014.

Additional Information: Co-founder/Co-director of the EDGE Program (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Educa-tion), 1998–2011, recognized by AMS under Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference, 2007; Recipient of Dr. Etta Z. Falconer Award for Mentoring and Commitment to Diversity, Infinite Possibilities Conference, 2007; AAAS Mentor Award, 2008; NAM Lifetime Service Award, 2012; AMS Fellow, 2013; AWM Fellow, 2018; MAA Award for Inclusivity, 2019.

Selected Publications: 1. with L. Kramarz, Approximating eigenfunctions of Fredholm operators in Banach spaces, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 105 (1985), no. 2, 433–444. MR0778477; 2. Black women mathematicians: in short supply, SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 6 (1989), no. 2, 18–23; 3. with R. Hughes, Improving the graduate school experience for women in mathematics: The EDGE Program, J. Women Minor. Scien. Eng. 10, i3 (2004), 243–253; 4. with S. D’Agos-tino and R. Hughes, An EDGE in mathematics for women: the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Program, Women in mathematics, Assoc. Women Math. Ser., vol. 10, Springer, Cham, 2017, 359–374. MR3775389.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to have been asked to stand for election to the AMS Nominating Committee. The AMS mission includes the support of mathematical education and research while facilitating broad participa-tion in both. If elected, I will work towards the identifi-cation of candidates for the AMS leadership who support this mission, with concerns for broader participation in the discipline at all levels. I will bring to this position my

Additional Information: Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Disserta-tion Fellowship, 1985; National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1992; Romnes Faculty Fellowship, Wis-consin Alumni Research Foundation, 1995; Chair, Depart-ment of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1999–2002; Vilas Associate Award, University of Wiscon-sin–Madison, 2003; Co-chair, MSRI Scientific Advisory Committee, 2003–2007; Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, 2004; Director, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, 2008–2015; Fellow, American Mathematical Society, 2012; Jeffery–Williams Research Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society, 2015; CEO & Scien-tific Director, Mitacs, 2015–2019; Corresponding Member, Mexican Academy of Sciences, 2017; IMU Committee on Women in Mathematics, 2019; President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2019; Fellow, Canadian Mathematical Society, 2020.

Selected Publications: 1. Characters and K-theory of dis-crete groups, Invent. Math. 114 (1993), no. 3, 489–514. MR1244911; 2. with J. H. Smith, Periodic complexes and group actions, Ann. of Math. (2) 154 (2001), no. 2, 407–435. MR1865976; 3. with R. J. Milgram, Cohomology of finite groups, Grundlehren Math. Wiss., vol. 309, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, viii+324 pp. MR1317096; 4. with J. Leida and Y. Ruan, Orbifolds and stringy topology, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, vol. 171, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, xii+149 pp. MR2359514; 5. with J. M. Gómez, A classifying space for commutativity in Lie groups, Algebraic & Geometric Topology 15–1 (2015), 493–535.

Statement by Candidate: If elected to the Nominating Committee, I will make every effort to recruit an excellent and diverse pool of candidates for election to AMS offices. As a Latino mathematician who has worked and studied at a variety of institutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, I have a broad perspective on how the AMS can contribute to strengthening and diversifying the math-ematical community. My thorough knowledge of AMS governance (including ten years on Council and close to four years on the Executive Committee) provides me with useful insight on the leadership needs for the AMS. My experience as a faculty member in the USA and Canada, as well as my administrative roles, allows me to have firsthand knowledge of the key issues that need to be addressed. I am committed to recruiting candidates who will fully represent the diverse membership of the AMS.

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the Women in Algebraic Geometry Collaborative Research Workshop and the Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry Semester Program at ICERM.

The AMS serves a broad population of mathematicians working at many different kinds of institutions. This breadth should be reflected among the candidates nomi-nated to AMS leadership positions. And we have a long way to go in actively supporting historically underrepresented groups and gender minorities. I would work to identify leaders who bring commitment and creativity to this mul-tifaceted problem.

Nominating CommitteeAbba GumelFoundation Professor of Mathemat-ics, Arizona State University

PhD: Brunel University London, 1994

AMS Committees: Chair, AMS West-ern Section Program Committee, 2020–2022.

Selected Addresses: Plenary Lecture, DIMACS Workshop on Mathematics of Planet Earth, DIMACS, Rutgers Univer-sity, 2018; Keynote Address on “STEM as Driver of Knowl-edge-based Economy,” Annual Meeting of the Southern African Mathematical Sciences Association (SAMSA), Bo-tswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana, November 19–22, 2018 (the President of Botswana, Dr. Mokgweetsi Masisi, was in attendance); Plenary Lecture, Hands-on Research in Complex Systems School, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 2019; Invited Lecture at Current Events Bulletin, AMS Joint Meetings (online), 2021; Speaker, 2021 AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics (online), 2021.

Additional Information: Fellow, African Academy of Sci-ence, 2009; Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science, 2010; Fellow, ASU-Santa Fe Institute Center for Biosocial Com-plex Systems, 2015. Member: Society of Mathematical Biology, SIAM, CAIMS (Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society).

Selected Publications: 1. with C. N. Ngonghala and E. Iboi, Could masks curtail the post-lockdown resurgence of COVID-19 in the US?, Math. Biosci. 329 (2020), 108452. MR4143540; 2. with I. Enahoro, S. Eikenberry, S. Huijben, and K. Paaijmans, Long-lasting insecticidal nets and the quest for malaria eradication: A mathematical modeling approach, J. Math. Biol. 81 (2020), 113–158. MR4123892; 3. with C. Bowman, P. van den Driessche, J. Wu, and H. Zhu, A mathematical model for assessing control strategies

experience as a faculty member, an administrator, and a champion of efforts to increase the number and diversity of people who seek careers in the mathematical sciences.

Nominating CommitteeMelody ChanAssociate Professor of Mathematics, Brown University

PhD: University of California Berke-ley, 2012

Selected Addresses: Géométrie Al-gébrique en Liberté (GAeL), Invited Lecture Series, Strasbourg, 2019;

Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture, Holy Cross, 2019; MSRI Recent Progress on Moduli Theory, 2019; Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Collo-quium, 2021; AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting Invited Ad-dress, 2022.

Additional Information: NSF Postdoctoral and Graduate Fellowships, 2007, 2012; Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship at Brown University, 2017; Sloan Research Fellowship, 2018; NSF CAREER award, 2019–2024; AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory, 2020.

Selected Publications: 1. with S. Galatius and S. Payne, Tropical curves, graph complexes, and top weight coho-mology of Mg, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (2021), 565–594; 2. with N. Pflueger, Euler characteristics of Brill-Noether varieties, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), 1513–1533. MR4216716; 3. with R. Cavalieri, M. Ulirsch, and J. Wise, A moduli stack of tropical curves, Forum Math. Sigma 8 (2020), e23. MR4091085; 4. with T. Church and J. Gro-chow, Rotor-routing and spanning trees on planar graphs, Int. Math. Res. Not. 11 (2015), 3225–3244. MR3373049; 5. Combinatorics of the tropical Torelli map, Algebra Number Theory 6 (2012), no. 6, 1133–1169. MR2968636.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to be asked to stand for election to the Nominating Committee, and grateful for an opportunity to give back to a community that has supported me so well.

One of the recommendations from the AMS Task Force studying racial discrimination was to solicit from candidates a more holistic account of their professional activities, past the papers, prizes, and lectures listed above. I agree with this recommendation. I am deeply invested in the other parts of my work, especially supporting ear-ly-career mathematicians. My perspective has been shaped by the students I have mentored. And I have experience co-organizing a range of programs and workshops, like the Horizons seminar at Brown for diversity and inclusion, and

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members of underrepresented groups in STEM, students, and junior faculty.

Additional Information: NSF Meritorious Service Award, 2002; NSF Distinguished Service Award, 2004; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013; SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, 2021. NSF Positions: Program Director for DMS Infrastruc-ture/Special Projects, 1988–1990, 1991–1993; Program Director for Applied Mathematics, 1993–2003; Deputy Division Director for Mathematical Sciences, 2004–2011; Deputy Division Director for Information and Intelligent Systems, 2011–2016; Deputy Assistant Director for Mathe-matical and Physical Sciences, 2016–2019. Past service to AAAS Mathematics Section (as Chair, Council Delegate, and member of Nominating Committee) and to SIAM (as member of Committee on Committees and Appointments, Chair of Selection Committee for the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize, and SIAM representative to the Joint Committee on Women in Mathematics). Member of AMS, SIAM, MAA, AWM, and AAAS.

Selected Publications: 1. Post-buckling dynamic behavior of periodically supported imperfect shells, Int. J. Nonlin-ear Mech. 17 (1982), 165–174; 2. Dynamic buckling of a damped externally pressurized imperfect cylindrical shell, J. Appl. Mech. 46 (1979), 372–376; 3. Dynamic buckling of a damped imperfect column on a nonlinear foundation, Quart. Appl. Math. 36 (1978), 49–55. MR0478937; 4. with J. C. Amazigo, Stability under step-loading of infinitely long columns with localized imperfections, Quart. Appl. Math. 34 (1976), 249–256; 5. with J. C. Amazigo, Dynamic buck-ling of externally pressurized imperfect cylindrical shells, J. Appl. Mech. 42 (1975), 316–320.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to be asked by the AMS to stand for election to the Nominating Committee. The AMS is a stellar organization that has been highly influential in promoting and supporting mathematical research and education, the development of an engaged and diverse mathematical workforce, and outreach to the public. Thus, it is essential that its leadership be composed of highly capable individuals who broadly represent the community and are committed to the AMS mission. Diver-sity of perspectives brings great value to the Society, since many issues can affect groups in different ways. Including diversity across mathematical interests, institutional type, gender, race, geography, career stage, and other character-istics can help the AMS respond to issues more effectively. A mix of experienced individuals and those bringing new perspectives to the Society is also desirable. In summary, identifying individuals who can lead the AMS in times of rapid change and strong challenges to the community as

against West Nile virus, Bull. Math. Biol. 67 (2005), 1107–1133. MR2216894; 4. Causes of backward bifurcations in some epidemiological models, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 395 (2012), no. 1, 355–365. MR2943627; 5. with S. M. Garba and J. M. Lubuma, Dynamically-consistent non-standard finite-difference method for an epidemic model, Math. Comput. Modelling 53 (2011), 131–150. MR2739251.

Statement by Candidate: It is a great honor to be asked to be a candidate for the AMS Nominating Committee. The Committee is tasked with the responsibility of recommend-ing to the AMS Council a slate of officers for nomination in the fall election. For the AMS to continue to effectively achieve its core mission, which includes securing funding for supporting mathematics research, conducting commu-nity outreach, and increasing the growth of the profession by effective outreach to underrepresented communities, it is imperative that its decision-making processes are informed by diverse voices, opinions, and perspectives. Hence, it is critical that a diverse slate of officers is continually nomi-nated to vie for AMS leadership positions. If elected, I will nominate candidates that are visionary, open-minded, and diligent, and advocate the diversity and perspectives within mathematics. I will be a voice for emphasizing the synergy between the theoretical and application components of the mathematical sciences. I have decades-long experience in providing access to high-quality mathematics training and mentoring to underrepresented communities. I am deeply committed to advocating for diversity in terms of race, gen-der, orientation, types of institutions where nominees are sought, geographical location, stage in nominee’s career, etc., in the nomination process.

Nominating CommitteeDeborah Frank LockhartRetired, National Science Founda-tion

PhD: Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-tute, 1974

AMS Committees: Committee on Science Policy (Chair), 2021–pres-ent.

Addresses: Several talks each year since 1988 on funding opportunities, current policies and initiatives, and proposal preparation and writing at the National Science Founda-tion. Presented at diverse venues, including meetings of principal investigators, workshops, professional society meetings, university campuses, science policy groups, groups of department chairs, and research conferences. Gave many talks on funding and career opportunities to

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AMS Council and Governance. If elected, I would strive to nominate slates of candidates that collectively represent the full range of experiences relevant to making the AMS take actions and stances that reflect the values of its diversifying membership to both mathematical communities and the public at large. This range of experiences includes institu-tional provenance (research-oriented universities, small lib-eral arts colleges, etc.), domains of mathematical expertise, and demographics. I find it particularly important to nom-inate AMS members who are also actively involved in other mathematical societies (AWM, NAM, MAA, SIAM, ASA, etc.), to take advantage of the points of contact between the AMS and its sister societies. Having just completed a three-year term as a member at large of the AMS Council, at a turbulent time for both the nation and the Society, I feel well-positioned to help identify candidates who will continue to promote the mission of the Society as a face for research mathematics while acknowledging the humanity of its members, through initiatives that inclusively sup-port the production of mathematical knowledge and the dissemination of mathematical activity. I am honored to be nominated for this position by President Charney and to have the opportunity if elected to help shape the AMS’s contributions to society for years to come.

Editorial Boards CommitteeMartin BridgemanProfessor of Mathematics, Boston College


AMS Committees: Eastern Section Program Committee, February 2016–January 2018 (Chair, February 2017–January 2018); Committee on Meet-

ings and Conferences, February 2019–January 2022 (Chair, February 2021–January 2022).

Selected Addresses: Van Vleck Lectures, Wesleyan Univer-sity, 2003; Masterclass Lecture Series, Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus, Denmark, 2013; Lec-ture Series, Mapping Class Groups and Teichmüller Theory Conference, Ramat Hanadiv, Israel, 2014; Plenary Speaker, Sixth Iberoamerican Congress on Geometry, CUNY, NY, 2014; Lecture Series on Quasifuchsian Groups, CIMPA Research School, Piriapolis, Uruguay, 2016.

Additional Information: Co-organizer of a working re-search group “Hyperbolic geometry and quasiconformal mappings” at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), August 2005; Founder and Co-organizer of William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2006–2018; Co-organizer

well as understand and promote the increasingly important role of mathematics in society is crucial. If elected, I will make every effort to help the Nominating Committee find such individuals who can help AMS successfully address current challenges and ensure a successful future.

Nominating CommitteeAnthony Várilly-AlvaradoProfessor of Mathematics, Rice Uni-versity

PhD: University of California at Berkeley, 2009

AMS Committees: AMS Council, 2018–2021; Committee on Science Policy, 2018–2021.

Selected Addresses: Invited Lecture Series, Arizona Winter School on Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Varieties, Tucson, AZ, 2015; Invited Speaker, AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015; Invited Lecture Series, Positivity in Arithmetic and Geometry, Uni-versité Paris-Sud, Orsay, 2017; Invited Address, Algebraic Geometry North Eastern Series (AGNES), Providence, RI, 2018; AMS Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver, CO, 2020.

Additional Information: NSF CAREER, 2014; Founder and Director, Patterns, Math and You (two-week summer outreach program for middle school students in the Hous-ton Independent School District), 2015–present; George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, Rice University (university-wide award), 2016, 2018, 2020; MSRI Human Resources Advisory Committee, 2017–2020; Fellow of the AMS, 2021.

Selected Publications: 1. with B. Viray, Abelian n-divi-sion fields of elliptic curves and Brauer groups of product Kummer & abelian surfaces, Forum Math. Sigma 5 (2017). MR3731278; 2. with D. Abramovich, Level structures on abelian varieties and Vojta’s conjecture, Compos. Math. 153 (2017). MR3705229; 3. with S. Tanimoto, Kodaira dimen-sion of moduli of special cubic fourfolds, J. Reine Angew. Math. 752 (2019), 265–300. MR3975644; 4. with N. Add-ington, B. Hassett, and Y. Tschinkel, Cubic fourfolds fibered in sextic del Pezzo surfaces, Amer. J. Math 141 (2019), no. 6, 1479–1500. MR4030521; 5. with M. Pieropan, A. Smeets, and S. Tanimoto, Campana points of bounded height on vector group compactifications, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3), to appear.

Statement by Candidate: The Nominating Committee of the AMS plays a decisive role in the composition of the

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Panagiota DaskalopoulosProfessor, Columbia University


AMS Committees: Committee on Committees, Chair, 2019–2020.

Selected Addresses: Invited Speaker, ICM Special Section in PDE, Seoul, Korea, 2014; AMS In-vited Address, Joint Meetings, Seattle, 2016.

Selected Publications: 1. with S. Angenent and N. Sesum, Uniqueness of two-convex closed ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow, Ann. of Math. (2) 192 (2020), no. 2, 353–436. MR4151080; 2. with S. Brendle and K. Choi, Asymptotic behavior of flows by powers of the Gaussian curvature, Acta Math. 219 (2017), no. 1, 1–16. MR3765656; 3. with N. Sesum, Ancient solutions to geometric flows, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 67 (2020), 467–474. MR4186264; 4. with K. Lee, Worn stones with flat sides all time regularity of the interface, Invent. Math. 156 (2004), no. 3, 445–493. MR2061326; 5. with R. Hamilton, Regularity of the free boundary for the porous medium equation, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1998), no. 4, 899–965. MR1623198.

Statement by Candidate: It is my honor to be nominated for a position on the AMS Editorial Boards Committee. The AMS journals and book series are of the highest quality and have served the mathematics community, especially mathematics research and education, for many years and in many crucial and important ways. It is our duty to continue this tradition of excellence and help in any way we can to sustain and expand AMS publications towards these goals.

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Irene FonsecaKavcic-Moura University Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University

PhD: University of Minnesota, 1985

AMS Committees: AMS Nominating Committee, 2009–2011, 2019–2022;

AMS Short Course Subcommittee, 2016–2019; AMS Fellows Selection Committee, 2017–2020; AMS Prize Oversight Committee, 2019–2022.

of special session “Teichmüller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry” at AMS regional meeting, University of Con-necticut, Storrs, October 2006; Simons Fellow, 2013 and 2020; Co-organizer of the Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS, Boston College, April 2013; Co-organizer of conference “Hyperbolic Geometry and Minimal Surfaces,” IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2015; Co-organizer of conference “Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Mod-uli Spaces,” National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 2016; Co-organizer of the GEAR Network’s Third Annual Retreat, Stanford University, Palo Alto, August 2017; AMS Fellow, 2018; Co-organizer of conference “Workshop on Geometry of Teichmüller Space” at the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, August 27–31, 2018; Co-organizer of con-ference “Ventotene IV, Quasi-isometries,” Ventotene, Italy, September 9–14, 2019; Simons Research Professor, MSRI, Fall 2020; Member of GEAR Network (Geometric structures And Representation varieties); Co-organizer and Moderator of the townhall “The Future of the JMM and What to Expect at JMM2022” at the Joint Math Meeting, January 8, 2021.

Selected Publications: 1. Average bending of convex pleated planes in hyperbolic three-space, Invent. Math. 132 (1998), no. 2, 381–391. MR1621436; 2. Hausdorff dimen-sion and the Weil–Petersson extension to quasifuchsian space, Geom. Topol. 14 (2010), no. 2, 799–831. MR2602852; 3. Orthospectra of geodesic laminations and dilogarithm identities on moduli space, Geom. Topol. 15 (2011), no. 2, 707–733. MR2800364; 4. with R. Canary, F. Labourie, and A. Sambarino, The pressure metric for Anosov represen-tations, Geom. Funct. Anal. 25 (2015), no. 4, 1089–1179. MR3385630; 5. with J. Brock and K. Bromberg, Schwarzian derivatives, projective structures, and the Weil-Petersson gradient flow for renormalized volume, Duke Math. J. 168 (2019), no. 5, 867–896. MR3934591.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to be nominated for election to the AMS Editorial Boards Committee. The publications of the AMS are some of the most important publications in mathematics. The current academic pub-lishing world is in great flux with the rise of preprint servers and open access journals questioning the role of journals themselves, their pricing, and accessibility. The role of the AMS Editorial Boards Committee is to recommend appointees to editorial committees to the AMS president and the Council. In this role, if elected, my primary goal will be to recommend appointees to editorial committees that will address these issues so the AMS publications can thrive going forward and continue to provide a vital place for dialogue and communication in our community. I believe that to address the broad spectrum of issues, it is important that the editorial boards also reflect the diver-sity of our community, and if elected I will work towards achieving this.

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Abel Prize Committee, 2017–2019; AMS Mathematics Research Communities Advisory Board, 2017–2020; Alan T. Waterman (ATW) Award Committee, NSF, 2017–2020; ICM Emmy Noether Lecture Committee, Chair, 2018; SIAM SIAG APDE Chair, 2019–2020; ICM Structure Committee, International Mathematical Union, 2019–2022; AWM Sci-entific Advisory Committee, Chair, 2021.

Selected Publications: 1. The Wulff theorem revisited, Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 432 (1991), 125–145. MR1116536; 2. with S. Müller, Relaxation of quasiconvex functionals in BV(Ω,Rp) for integrands f(x,u,∇u), Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 123 (1993), 1–49. MR1218685; 3. with J. Malý, Relax-ation of multiple integrals below the growth exponent, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré, Anal. Non Linéaire 14 (1997), 309–338. MR1450951; 4. with S. Müller, A-quasiconvexity, lower semicontinuity, and Young measures, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 30 (1999), 1355–1390. MR1718306; 5. with G. Bouchitté and L. Mascarenhas, A global method for relaxation, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 145 (1998), 51–98. MR1656477.

Statement by Candidate: I am honored to have been nom-inated to the AMS Editorial Boards Committee. Living now in unprecedented pandemic times, the role of science and mathematics in keeping us safe and healthy is paramount. Publications are central to the dissemination of what are the next steps in scientific discovery, and the AMS plays a preeminent role worldwide, not only due to the prestige that its publications carry, but also due to the affordability of their access. Here I will bring forth my knowledge of and networking within areas of mathematics that are consid-ered to be applied, and as such may involve dialogue with neighboring disciplines, from physics, to engineering, to computer science.

I am looking forward to again serving the AMS, now in this capacity at the stewardship of AMS publications, which are among AMS’s most prominent services to the mathematics community.

Editorial Boards CommitteeRobert GuralnickProfessor, University of Southern California

PhD: UCLA, 1977

AMS Committees: Memoirs and Transactions Editorial Board, 2003–2013, Managing Editor, 2005–2013; Executive Committee of the AMS

Council, 2005–2009; AMS Council, 2005–2013, 2013–2022; Mathematical Surveys and Monographs Committee, 2013–2022, Chair, 2018–2022; University Lecture Series, 2013–2025, Chair, 2022–2025.

Selected Addresses: Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, November 12–13, 2012; Aziz Lectures, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2016; Colloquium, Applied Math and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania, April 2018; 2018 Por-celli Lectures at LSU (3 lectures), April 2018; One World PDE Seminar (OWPDE), October 27, 2020 (via Zoom).

Additional Information: Honors and Awards: Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Grande Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant’Iago da Espada (Portuguese Decoration), 1997; Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics (Chair), 2003–2018; AWM–SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2006, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, 2006; Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Ap-plied Mathematics, 2009; Fellow of the AMS, 2012; SIAM President Elect, 2012, SIAM President, 2013–2014, SIAM Past President, 2015; Elected to the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Portugal), 2018; Kavcic-Moura Professorship in Mathematics (Chair), 2018–2028; Turner Kirk Distin-guished Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Math-ematical Sciences, Cambridge (UK), 2019. Professional Societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Mathematical Society (AMS); Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM); Interna-tional Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Math-ematics; Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM); Society for Natural Philosophy. Editorial Boards: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, Springer; Advances in Calculus of Variations, De Gruyter, Berlin–New York; Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis; BCAM–SpringerBriefs; CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences (CIM–MS), Springer–Verlag; Communications of the AMS (CAMS), Senior Editor; Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, AIMS; De Gruyter Series in Applied and Numerical Mathematics; ESAIM: COCV (European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations), SMAI, Associate Editor; Evolution Equations and Control Theory (EECT), AIMS (American Insti-tute of Mathematical Sciences); Infosys Science Foundation Series in Mathematical Sciences, Springer, Editor-in-Chief; Journal of Nonlinear Science, Springer, Senior Editor; M3AS, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences; Mono-graph Series of the SPM; Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization; Portugaliae Mathematica; Ricerche di Matemat-ica, Springer. Selected Committees: SIAM Science Policy Committee, 2008–2022; Scientific Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg (Germany), 2014–2023; Scientific Advisory Board, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna (Austria), 2016–2024; Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Germany), Chair, 2017–2019; Board of Electors to Professorships, University of Cambridge (UK), 2017–2019;

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Selected Addresses: AMS Annual Meeting Plenary Lecture, San Diego, 2013; British Colloquium Plenary Lecture, 2014; ICM Invited Talk, Seoul, 2014; Distinguished Lecture Se-ries, Technion, 2016; AMS–Vietnam Plenary Lecture, Quy Nonh, 2019.

Additional Information: AMS Fellow, 2012; Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra, 2018; Managing Editor, Forum of Math, Pi and Sigma, 2018–2023.

Selected Publications: 1. with W. M. Kantor, M. Kassabov, and A. Lubotzky, Presentations of finite simple groups: a quantitative approach, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (2008), 711–774. MR2393425; 2. with P. H. Tiep, Symmetric powers and a problem of Kollár and Larsen, Invent. Math. 174 (2008), 505–554. MR2453600; 3. with M. E. Zieve, Polynomials with PSL(2) monodromy, Ann. of Math. 172 (2010), 1315–1359. MR2680492; 4. with M. W. Liebeck, E. A. O’Brien, A. Shalev, and P. H. Tiep, Surjective word maps and Burnside’s paqb theorem, Invent. Math. 213 (2018), 589–695. MR3827208; 5. with T. C. Burness and S. Harper, On the spread of finite groups, Ann. of Math. (2) 193 (2021), no. 2, 619–687.

Statement by Candidate: I have always been interested in mathematical publishing and served as managing editor for Transactions of the AMS for eight years. I am currently serving as managing editor of Forum of Math, Sigma and Pi and have been on the editorial boards of many journals (including Annals, Bulletin of the AMS, Linear Algebra and its Applications, and others). I have had quite a lot of experience in choosing editors and interacting with editors.

American Mathematical Society Policy on a Welcoming Environment(as adopted by the January 2015 AMS Council and modified by the January 2019 AMS Council)

The AMS strives to ensure that participants in its activities enjoy a welcoming environment. In all its activities, the AMS seeks to foster an atmo-sphere that encourages the free expression and exchange of ideas. The AMS supports equality of opportunity and treatment for all partici-pants, regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion or religious belief, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities, veteran status, or immigration status.

Harassment is a form of misconduct that undermines the integrity of AMS activities and mission.

The AMS will make every effort to maintain an environment that is free of harassment, even though it does not control the behavior of third parties. A commitment to a welcoming envi-ronment is expected of all attendees at AMS activities, including mathematicians, students, guests, staff, contractors and exhibitors, and par-ticipants in scientific sessions and social events. To this end, the AMS will include a statement concerning its expectations towards maintain-ing a welcoming environment in registration materials for all its meetings, and has put in place a mechanism for reporting violations. Violations may be reported confidentially and anonymously to 855.282.5703 or at www.mathsociety.ethicspoint.com. The report-ing mechanism ensures the respect of privacy while alerting the AMS to the situation.

For AMS policy statements concerning discrimination and harassment, see the AMS Anti-Harassment Policy.

Questions about this welcoming environment policy should be directed to the AMS Secretary.





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