As a grad student, life can be hectic—with classes, homework, teaching responsibilities and more—so taking the time out of an already busy schedule to read the AMS Notices “cover to cover” is not always something that seems easily attainable. In fact, if you are like me, often when you get the email notification that the Notices is published and you quickly file it away into a folder to check out at a later date, but let’s be honest, you rarely enter that folder to peruse them after you click the button to file it away. Now as a mathematician, staying up to date is important and filing away the Notices for some future date may not be the best habit to have. That’s where this post and future posts come in handy. Every time that the Notices have a new edition available, we will be spotlighting an article that we think is of particular interest for us as graduate students. We encourage you to take a moment out of your busy schedule to read the article or, if you aren’t interested in the topic we are emphasizing, to peruse the other articles and find one that catches your eye. So without further ado, our first spotlighted article.

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