Jill Pipher, Vice President for Research and Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, begins her term as AMS President today, February 1, 2019. “It is quite an honor to be starting my term as President of the American Mathematical Society,” she says. “I’ve spent this past year as President-elect thinking hard about priorities for the next two years. I’ve been listening to the ideas and suggestions of many colleagues and learning in depth about the operations of AMS, from publications to meetings to long-range planning, and have formulated some priorities for this next two years.”