Notices of the American Mathematical Society

August 2023 Front Cover Voting Information 2023 AMS Election Stefan Bergman Fellowship Table of Contents Masthead Letters to the Editor Position Available Executive Director A Word from...Catherine A Roberts Tropical Geometry Forwards and Backwards by Dhruv Ranganathan Normalizing Flows Aided Variational Inference: A Useful Alternative to MCMC? by Sumegha Premchandar, Bhattacharya Shrijita, and Maiti Tapabrata The Art of Measuring the Stregnth of Theories by Michael Rathjen Support the Epsilon Fund Mathematizing Human Perception by Brett Jefferson Early Eareer European Mathematical Society/Member Program Christine Bessenrodt, 1958-2022 by Jorn B. Olsson Math Variety Show Remembrances of Chandler Davis (1926-2022_ by Sheldon Axler, John J. Benedetto, Rajendra Bhatia, Man-Duen Choi, Aaron Davis, Natalie Zemon Davis, Simone Weil Davis, John Friedlander, Mary Gray, Stephen Halperin, Peter Rosenthal, Marjorie Senechal, and Hannah Davis Taieb AMS Student Travel Grants Carolien Seely at the AMS (1913-1935): From Executive Assistant to Associate Editor by James J. Tattersall and Shawn L. McMurran Topology of Numbers, A Review by D. D. Long Bookshelf AMS Bookshelf Modeling America's Racial Wealth Disparities--Mathematical Models Help Chart Pathways for Closing Racial Wealth Gaps by Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Jonathan Lamb, Osonde Osoba, and Jonathan Welburn Mathematics Research Communities A Path Through the Roots by Danny Calegari Calls for Nominations & Applications AMS Fellowships AMS Updates Mathematics People New Books Offered by the AMS Meetings & Conferences of the AMS August Table of Contents AMS Undergraduate Student Travel Grants Meetings & Conferences of the AMS Math Poetry AMS Open Math Notes