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Math in Moscow Scholarships 

Awarded

The AMS has made awards to five mathematics stu-

dents to attend the Math in Moscow program in the 

spring of 2012. Following are the names of the under-

graduate students and their institutions: Ping Ngai

(Brian) Chung

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 

Joseph W. Ferrara

, University of California, Berkeley; 

Jordan J. Franks

, Rice University; Jeremy Lee Garcia, 

University of Northern Colorado; and Ethan J. McCarthy, 

Michigan State University.

Math in Moscow is a program of the Independent 

University of Moscow that offers foreign students (under-

graduate or graduate students specializing in mathemat-

ics and/or computer science) the opportunity to spend a 

semester in Moscow studying mathematics. All instruction 

is given in English. The fifteen-week program is similar to 

the Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs 

that are held each summer across the United States.

The AMS awards several scholarships for U.S. students 

to attend the Math in Moscow program. The scholarships 

are made possible through a grant from the National Sci-

ence Foundation. For more information about Math in 

Moscow, consult http://www.mccme.ru/mathinmoscow 

and the article “Bringing Eastern European mathematical 

traditions to North American students”, Notices, November 

2003, pages 1250–4.

—Elaine Kehoe 

From the AMS Public 

Awareness Office

AMS at the 2011 SACNAS National Conference. The AMS 

hosted an exhibit and a version of the Who Wants to Be a 

Mathematician game for undergraduate students at the 

2011 SACNAS National Conference in San Jose, California, 

October 26–29, 2011. The conference had record-breaking 

attendance (approximately 4,000) and a record-breaking 

number of student poster presentations in the mathemati-

cal sciences; the game drew approximately 3,000. See a re-

port by the Public Awareness Office on all the mathematics 

at the conference, as well as photographs and video clips, 

at http://www.ams.org/meetings/sacnas2011-mtg.

Math in the Media. Recent media coverage of math-

ematics and mathematicians includes reviews of the 

“Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes” exhibition, 

the 2011 Nobel Prize for quasicrystals, mathematics of 

finance, and the Museum of Mathematics. View the most 

recent issue of Math in the Media and explore the archive 

of Tony Phillips’s Take and Math Digest summaries at 

http://www.ams.org/mathmedia/.

This Mathematical Month: February. Read about 

events that occurred in the month of February, such 

as AMS President Thomas S. Fiske’s presidential ad-

dress, “Mathematical Progress in America”, published 

in the February 1905 issue of the Bulletin of the AMS, 

and the birth of John W. Milnor in February 1931, at 

http://www.ams.org/samplings/this-math-month/

thismathmonth-feb. 

—Annette Emerson and Mike Breen 

AMS Public Awareness Officers

[e-mail]

AMS Email Support for 

Frequently Asked Questions

A number of email addresses have been established for 

contacting the AMS staff regarding frequently asked ques-

tions. The following is a list of those addresses together 

with a description of the types of inquiries that should be 

made through each address.

[e-mail] for questions regarding a particu-

lar abstract or abstracts questions in general.

[e-mail] to contact the AMS Acquisitions 

Department.

[e-mail] to contact the Society’s headquarters in 

Providence, Rhode Island.

[e-mail] to contact the Society’s office in 

Washington, D.C.

[e-mail] to request information about mem-

bership in the AMS and about dues payments or to ask 

any general membership questions; may also be used to 

submit address changes.

[e-mail] for information or questions 

about the Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences or 

to request reprints of survey reports.

[e-mail] for inquiries related to the online 

AMS Bookstore.

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[e-mail] to submit classified advertising for 

the Notices.

[e-mail] for general information about AMS 

products (including electronic products), to send address 

changes, place credit card orders for AMS products, to 

correspond regarding a balance due shown on a monthly 

statement, or conduct any general correspondence with 

the Society’s Customer Services Department.

[e-mail] for information about giving 

to the AMS, including the Epsilon Fund.

[e-mail] to request information about Em-

ployment Information in the Mathematical Sciences (EIMS). 

For ad rates and to submit ads go to http://www.eims.

ams.org.

[e-mail] for information regarding AMS 

employment and career services.

[e-mail] for technical questions re-

garding AMS electronic products and services.

[e-mail] to send information to be included 

in the “Mathematics Calendar” section of the Notices.

[e-mail] for questions about the online job 

application service for Mathjobs.org.

[e-mail] to submit reviews to Mathematical 

Reviews and to send correspondence related to reviews or 

other editorial questions.

[e-mail] to request general information about 

Society meetings and conferences.

[e-mail] for information or questions about 

registration and housing for the Joint Mathematics Meet-

ings (Mathematics Meetings Service Bureau).

[e-mail] for technical questions regard-

ing MathSciNet.

[e-mail] to send correspondence to the man-

aging editor of the Notices, including items for the news 

columns. The editor ([e-mail]) is the 

person to whom to send articles and letters. Requests for 

permission to reprint from the Notices should be sent to 

[e-mail] (see below).

[e-mail] to submit electronically paid 

display ads for the Notices.

[e-mail] to submit suggestions for 

books to be included in the “Book List” in the Notices.

[e-mail] to submit letters and opinion 

pieces to the Notices.

[e-mail] to comment on or send sug-

gestions for topics for the “WHAT IS…?” column in the 

Notices.

[e-mail] to contact the AMS Public Aware-

ness Office.

[e-mail] to contact the president of the 

American Mathematical Society.

[e-mail] to send correspondence about AMS 

professional programs and services.

[e-mail] to send correspondence to the 

AMS Publication Division.

[e-mail] to submit accepted electronic 

manuscripts to AMS publications (other than Abstracts). 

See  http://www.ams.org/submit-book-journal to 

electronically submit accepted manuscripts to the AMS 

book and journal programs.

[e-mail] to request permission to 

reprint material from Society publications.

[e-mail] to inquire about reselling or distributing 

AMS publications or to send correspondence to the AMS 

Sales Department.

[e-mail] to contact the secretary of the 

Society.

[e-mail] for questions about AMS pro-

grams and services for students.

[e-mail] to contact the Society’s typeset-

ting Technical Support Group.

[e-mail] to request examination copies 

or inquire about using AMS publications as course texts.

[e-mail] for general information or for 

assistance in accessing and using the AMS website.

Deaths of AMS Members

Pao-Hsien Fang

, of Belmont, Massachusetts, died on Octo-

ber 21, 2011. Born on August 18, 1923, he was a member 

of the Society for 1 year.

Stoughton Bell

, professor, University of New Mexico, 

died on November 18, 2010. Born on December 20, 1923, 

he was a member of the Society for 56 years.

Boris V. Dekster

, of New Brunswick, Canada, died on 

September 21, 2008. Born on October 8, 1938, he was a 

member of the Society for 32 years.

Eugene M. Friedman

, of Los Angeles, California, died 

on July 13, 2011. Born on July 1, 1927, he was a member 

of the Society for 47 years.

Dave Furth

, of the Netherlands, died on February 11, 

2011. Born on February 11, 1941, he was a member of the 

Society for 31 years.

Frank E. Gerth III

, of Austin, Texas, died on May 23, 

2006. Born on October 8, 1945, he was a member of the 

Society for 38 years.

Herbert Aaron Hauptman

, of Buffalo, New York, died 

on October 23, 2011. Born on February 14, 1917, he was 

a member of the Society for 56 years.

Michal Krynicki

, professor, University of Warsaw, 

died on October 12, 2011. Born on February 3, 1950, he 

was a member of the Society for 22 years.

John McCarthy

, of Stanford, California, died on Octo-

ber 23, 2011. Born on September 4, 1927, he was a member 

of the Society for 61 years.

James E. Simpson

, of Corvallis, Oregon, died on

April 2, 2011. Born on July 6, 1931, he was a member of 

the Society for 51 years.

G. Ralph Strohl

, of Annapolis, Maryland, died on 

May 28, 2010. Born on October 19, 1919, he was a member 

of the Society for 62 years.

Robert H. Szczarba

, professor, Yale University, died 

on October 18, 2011. Born on November 27, 1932, he was 

a member of the Society for 54 years.

Robert C. Whitton

, of Davidson, North Carolina, died 

on November 11, 2011. Born on February 1, 1944, he was 

a member of the Society for 42 years.

Max A. Woodbury

, of Birmingham, Alabama, died on 

January 30, 2010. Born on April 30, 1917, he was a member 

of the Society for 68 years.