Stephan Ramon Garcia is W .M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Pomona College. He is the author of five books and over 100 research articles in operator theory, complex analysis, matrix analysis, number theory, discrete geometry, and combinatorics. He has served on the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Involve, and The American Mathematical Monthly. He received six teaching awards from three different institutions and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, which has awarded him the inaugural Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research.