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This season of the Perseid meteor shower August 12 and the third sighting in June make our cover feature on the discovery of gravitational waves stirring and profound. Later in the issue, James Tanton tells you how to prepare for Global Math Week, coming in October. Enjoy the summer while you can. —Frank Morgan, Editor-in-Chief

FROM THE AMS SECRETARY711 Voting Information for 2017 AMS Election

COMMENTARY676 Letters to the Editor

682 Opinion: International Mobilityand US MathematicsMoon Duchin

709 Opinion: Post-Quantum Cryptography:A New Opportunity and ChallengeJintai Ding and Daniel Smith-Tone

758 Book Review: One Hundred Twenty-One DaysJohn McCleary

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE712 Th e Global Math Project: Uplifting Mathematics

for AllJames Tanton and Brianna Donaldson

727 2015–2016 Doctoral Degrees Conferred

761 Interview with Michèle AudinAllyn Jackson

772 Th e “ Wide Infl uence” of Leonard Eugene DicksonDella Dumbaugh and Amy Shell-Gellasch

779 Ellenberg in GiftedAllyn Jackson

684 26Gravitational WavesIntroduction by Christina SormaniHow the Green Light was Given for Gravitational Wave Searchby C. Denson Hill and Paweł NurowskiGravitational Waves and Their Mathematicsby Lydia Bieri, David Garfinkle, and Nicolás Yunes

The Travel Ban: Affected Mathematicians Tell Their Storiesby Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Allyn Jackson, and Stephen Kennedy

The Graduate Student SectionKaren E. Smith Interviewby Laure FlapanWHAT IS...a CR Submanifold?by Phillip S. Harrington and Andrew Raich

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Cover: The gravitational waves first detected December 26, 2015, came from the spiraling merger of two black holes. The cover image is from a video that shows numerical simulation of the event GW151226 associated to a binary black-hole coales-cence.Credits: Numerical-relativistic Simulation: S. Ossokine,A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for GravitationalPhysics), Simulating eXtreme SpacetimesProject.Scientific Visualization: T. Dietrich, R. Haas (MaxPlanck Institute for Gravitational Physics).