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2006 PBA draft

Fil-Ams Rob Reyes and Joe Devance were scrapped from the list of rookie hopefuls after failing to submit their requirements even after PBA Commissioner Noli Eala extended the deadline of submission to August 13, 2006.

Alenia Marconi Systems

In 2001 AMS' missile systems division was merged with Aerospatiale Matra Missiles and Matra BAe Dynamics to form MBDA.

Algebraic combinatorics

This period is reflected in the area 05E, Algebraic combinatorics, of the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification, introduced in 1991.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

AMS-02 was delivered to the International Space Station on May 19, 2011 as part of station assembly flight ULF6 on shuttle flight STS-134, commanded by Mark Kelly.

Ams AG

ams´ Foundry is aimed at fabless companies, chip designers and integrated semiconductor providers which don’t have their own Wafer factory.

AMS Device Manager

AMS Device Manager supports digital instrument inputs and outputs; FOUNDATION fieldbus, HART, PROFIBUS DP, PROFIBUS PA, and WirelessHART.

AMS Euler

First implemented in METAFONT, AMS Euler was first used in the book Concrete Mathematics, co-authored by Knuth, which was dedicated to Euler.

Amsterdam Internet Exchange

AMS-IX members connect to the platform with 1, 10, 100 Gbit/s Ethernet connections, or using multiple gigabit or 10 gigabit aggregated ports, utilizing the 802.3ad standard.

Arthur Morgan School

AMS is located on 100 acres of farm and wilderness in the Celo Community, about an hour north of Asheville, North Carolina, and 20 minutes southeast of Burnsville, North Carolina.

Association for Women in Mathematics

Mary W. Gray was the early organizer, placing an advertisement in the February 1971 Notices of the AMS, and writing the first issue of the AWM Newsletter that May.

BAE Systems Integrated System Technologies

Insyte was formed on May 3, 2005, by bringing together BAE Systems' interests in C4ISR and the UK operations of AMS following the Eurosystems Transaction.

Clay Mathematics Monographs

Clay Mathematics Monographs is a series of expositions in mathematics co-published by AMS and Clay Mathematics Institute.

Eugene Trubowitz

with Joel Feldman, Horst Knörrer: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus, AMS (American Mathematical Society) 2003

Fritz Gesztesy

with Sergio Albeverio, Raphael Høegh-Krohn and Helge Holden: " Solvable Models in Quantum Mechanics", 2nd edition, AMS-Chelsea Series, Amer.

Glozel

Alice and Sam Gerard together with Robert Liris in 1995 managed to have two bone tubes found in Tomb II C-14 dated at the AMS C-14 laboratory at the University of Arizona, finding a 13th-century date.

Gorham's Cave

AMS dating gives dates for this level of between 33 and 23 kyr BP — the researchers felt that the uncertainties at this time depth made calibration impractical.

Horst Knörrer

With Joel Feldman, Eugene Trubowitz: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus, AMS (American Mathematical Society) 2003

IPCC Second Assessment Report

The position of the lead author of Chapter 8, Benjamin D. Santer, was supported by fellow IPCC authors and senior figures of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Karen Parshall

with David E. Rowe: The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore, AMS/LMS History of Mathematics 8, Providence/London 1994

with Jeremy J. Gray (eds.): Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950), AMS/LMS History of Mathematics 32, Providence/London 2007 (Conference at MSRI 2003)

KFSN-TV

Doug Collins (member, AMS; member, NWA) - meteorologist; weekday mornings on Action News A.M. Live (4:30-7) and weekdays at 11 a.m.

Kurt Ams

Ams was also selected to officiate the Bronze Medal game between Chile and China at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympics.

Levi L. Conant

In 2000 the Society established a yearly prize (Levi L. Conant Prize) in his name to honor the best expository paper published in the Bulletin of the AMS or the Notices of the AMS in the past five years.

Levi L. Conant Prize

2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices. Notices of the AMS, Vol.

2002: Elliott Lieb und Jakob Yngvason for A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Notices of the AMS, Vol.

Mathlete

Publications such as the MAA's The American Mathematical Monthly and the AMS's Notices of the American Mathematical Society are widely read to maintain and hone mathematical ability.

New England Cable News

Matt Noyes (member, AMS; member, NWA) - chief meteorologist; weekday mornings (5:00-10:00 a.m.)

NEXRAD

Atlas, David, Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference, published by the American Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990, 806 pages, ISBN 0-933876-86-6, AMS Code RADMET.

Paolo Baltaro

As producer he worked with Jazz Bigbox (Banksville Records), Even Vast (Black Lotus), Gabriel Delta (Banksville Records), McAllan (Ariston), Arcansiel (Musea), Roulette Cinese (Toast Records), Società Anonima Decostruzionismi Organici (Btf-Ams), Mhmm (Banksville), Sorella Maldestra (Banksville) and Terry Dene.

Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer device AMS-02, recently mounted on the International Space Station uses a RICH detector in combination with other devices to analyze cosmic rays.

The Bandit Run

Following the same route that the characters Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Jerry Reed) made in the 1977 movie, a group of about 30 Trans Ams started out in Texarkana on May 15, 2007.

Time Warner Cable News Capital Region

Mike Bono (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop

United States Military Standard

In their place, the DOD encouraged the use of industry standards, such as ISO 9000 series for quality assurance (see COTS), SAE standards such as the AS and AMS series (e.g., AS9100, AMS 2404), and others.

Verilog-A

There was considerable delay (possibly procrastination) between the first Verilog-A language reference manual and the full Verilog-AMS, and in that time Verilog moved to the IEEE, leaving Verilog-AMS behind at Accellera.

WNCN

The WNCN Precision Weather team includes chief meteorologist Wes Hohenstein (AMS Seal of Approval; weeknights at 6:00, 7:00 and 11:00 pm), and meteorologists Alyssa Corfont (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval; Saturdays at 7:00 and weekends at 6:00 and 11:00 pm) and Bill Reh (AMS Seal of Approval; weekday mornings on WNCN Today from 4:30-7:00. Also weekdays at 11:00 am starting January 27).

WNLO

Mike Cejka (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekends at 10:00 p.m.


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