The American Institute of Mathematics is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven G. Krantz and Rachel A. Kuske to the AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC).

Steven Krantz, an active researcher in several complex variables and distinguished author, has been appointed Deputy Director of ARCC. Having recently served as Chairman of Mathematics and Head of the Division of Natural Sciences at Washington University in St Louis, Krantz has also held academic positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton University, and Penn State University.

Awarded the Chauvenet Prize and Beckenbach Book Award from the Mathematical Association of America, Krantz has authored over 50 books on topics of complex variables, partial differential equations, geometry, general mathematics, as well as mathematical writing and education. Founder of The Journal of Geometric Analysis, Krantz is also a member of several editorial boards.

Rachel Kuske, a Canadian Research Chair in Applied Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, has been appointed Associate Director for Program Diversity at ARCC. Kuske has served on the faculties of Stanford University, Tufts University, and the University of Minnesota, where she was a McKnight Landgrant Professor and Associate Director of the Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics. Her research interests extend over a number of areas of applied mathematics including modeling in stochastic dynamics, mathematical finance, and mathematical biology.

Kuske is also on the editorial boards for the SIAM Review and the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (SIAP) and was the founder and director for the Mentor Network of the Association for Women in Mathematics.