Volume 68, Number 4, April 2021 Notices of the American Mathematical Society

April 2021 Front Cover
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
Table of Contents
Masthead
A Word From...by Kirsten Bohl, and David Eisenbud
The Coupling/Minorization/Drift Approach to Markov Chain Convergence Rates by Yu Hang Jiang, Tong Liu, Zhiya Lou, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Shanshan Shangguang, Fei Wang, and Zixuan Wu
AMS Graduate Student Chapters
The Structure of Homeomorphism and Diffeomorphism Groups by Kathryn Mann
On the Mathematics of Swarming--Emergent Behavior in Alignment Dynamics by Eitan Tadmor
Enumerative Combinatorics of Lattice Polymers by Nathan Clisby
Designing Stable Elections by Steven Heilman
Early Career
In Memoriam: Peter L. Montgomery (1947-2020) by Joppe W. Bos and Kristin E. Lauter
Elias M. Stein (1931-2018) by Lillian B. Piere, William Beckner, Galia Dafni, Charles Fefferman, Alexandru Ionescu, Vickie Kearn, Carlos E. Kenig, Anthony W. Knapp, Steven G. Krantz, Loredana Lanzani, Alexander Nagel, Duong H. Phong, Fulvio Ricci, Linda Rothschild, Rami Shakarchi, Christopher Sogge, Jeremy Stein, Karen Stein, Terence Tao, Stephen Wainger, and Harold Widom
Mathematical Moments
The Dawning of a New Era in Applied Mathematics by Weinan E
What is...the VC-Dimension? by Samuel C. Tenka
Hilbert's Tenth Problem, a Review by Alexandra Shlapentokh
Bookshelf
AMS Bookshelf
Heat Flow and Sets of Finite Perimeter by Fabrice Baudoin
On Sets and Patterns by Malabika Pramanik
Modeling and Forecasting COVID-19 by Li Wang, Guannan Wang, Xinyi Li, Shan Yu, Myungjin Kim, Yueying Wang, Zhiling Gu, and Lei Gao
Free AMS Content
Geography and MathSciNet/Mathematical Reviews by Edward Dunne
Call for Applications and Nominations AMS Associate Secretaries
Call for Applications & Nominations Associate Treasurer
Calls for Nominations & Applications AMS Prizes and Awards
2021 George David Birkhoff Prize
2021 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra
2021 Levi L. Conant Prize
2021 Mary P. Dolciani Prize
2021 Ulf Grenander Prize
Grad Program sin the Mathematical Sciences
2021 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student
2021 Bertrand Russell Prize
2021 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize
Thank You
2021 Leroy P. Steele Prizes
2021 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize
2021 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award
MathSciNet
2021 Cass of Fellows of the AMS
An Interview with Jill Pipher by Evelyn Lamb
Mathematics People
Community Updates
Mathematics Opportunities
Classified Advertising
New Books Offered by the AMS
Meetings & Conferences of the AMS April Table of Contents
Meetings & Conferences of the AMS
MCA 2021
Call for Submissions