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NOTICES of the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Flat-Rate Funding at NSF Flat-Rate Research Funding: Two Views page 3 The Endless Frontier Meets Today's Realities page 6 MSEB Comes of Age page 9 JANUARY 1993, VOLUME 40, NUMBER 1 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this issue be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of.the Mathe­ and from the headquarters office of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented matical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is particularly true Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. The abstract of meetings to which no numbers have been assigned. Programs of the meetings will deadlines listed below should be carefully reviewed since an abstract deadline may appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary announcements of the expire before publication of a first announcement. Note that the deadline for abstracts meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. Abstracts of papers presented at a for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to that specified below. For additional information, consult the meeting announcements the American Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices and the list of special sessions. which contains the program of the meeting, insoiar as is possible. Abstracts should Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 879 • March 26-27, 1993 Knoxville, Tennessee Expired March 880 • April9-10, 1993 Salt Lake City, Utah January 29 April 881 • April17-18, 1993 Washington, D.C. January 29 April 882 • May 20-23, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois February 26 May-June 883 • August15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia May 18 July-August (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) 884 • September 18-19, 1993 Syracuse, New York May 18 September 885 • October 1-3, 1993 Heidelberg, Germany May 18 September (Joint Meeting with the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung e.V.) 886 • October 22-23, 1993 College Station, Texas August4 October 887 • November 6-7,1993 Claremont, California August 4 October 888 • January 12-15, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio October 1 December (100th Annual Meeting) 889 • March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky 890 • March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas 891 * April9-10, 1994 Brooklyn, New York 892 • June 16-18, 1994 Eugene, Oregon October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, OklahOma January 25-28, 1995 Denver, Colorado (1 01 st Annual Meeting) March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois November3-4, 1995 Kent, Ohio January 10-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (102nd Annual Meeting) March 22-23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa • Please refer to page 43 for listing of Special Sessions. Conferences June 7-18, 1993: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics July 11-30, 1993: AMS Summer Institute on Stochastic Analysis, on Tomography, Impedance Imaging, and Integral Geometry, Mount Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. August 9-13, 1993: AMS Symposium on Mathematics of Computation July 10-August 6, 1993: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the 1943-1993: A Half-Century of Computational Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Washington. Other Events Cosponsored by the Society ~.--~·· ... ···········~··~················ ·············~···· ··~··········································································· ..... February 11-16, 1993: Section A (Mathematics) Sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. May 30-June 13,1993: First Caribbean Spring School of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics on Infinite Dimensional Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry, Operator Algebras, and Particle Physics, Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe. Cosponsored by the Societe Mathematique de France. Deadlines March Issue April Issue May-June Issue July-August Issue Classified Ads* February 4, 1993 February 24, 1993 April1, 1993 June 24, 1993 News Items January 22, 1993 February 19, 1993 March 19, 1993 June 8, 1993 Meeting Announcements•• January 26, 1993 February 22, 1993 March 23, 1993 June 14, 1993 • Please contact AMS Advertising Department for an Advertising Rate Card for display advertising deadlines. •• For material to appear in the Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences section. ···············································~·····~··········-··············------------ OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENTS ARTICLES 12 Forum 31 News and Announcements 3 Flat-Rate Research Funding: Two Views 36 Funding Information for the What are the advantages and problems associated with instituting a flat-rate Mathematical Sciences grant scheme at the NSF? This article presents two opposing viewpoints 37 1993 AMS Elections on this controversial issue, one written by former Division of Mathematical Sciences (OMS) program officer Robert Molzon and one written by former 41 Meetings and Conferences of OMS director John Polking. the AMS Knoxville, TN March 26-27, 41 6 The Endless Frontier Meets Today's Realities Richard H. Herman Invited Speakers, 43 The federal government and the general public are asking tough questions Joint Summer Research about how well higher education and scientific research are serving the Conferences in the Mathematical needs of the nation. This scrutiny comes at a time of dwindling resources Sciences, 47 for mathematics departments and for academia in general. This speech, 1993 Summer Seminar in Applied delivered at the annual Chairs' Colloquium last October, explores how Mathematics, 49 departments can respond to the changing climate. 1993 Summer Research Institute, 50 9 MSEB Comes of Age 1993 Symposium on Some . Mathematical Questions in Biology, The Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) has been a major 51 player in the mathematics education reform movement. With a new 1993 Symposium, Mathematics of executive director, Lynn Steen, and a number of other new senior staff Computation, 52 members, the MSEB is moving beyond just writing reports to taking a more active role in the implementation of reforms. Allyn Jackson reports on some 53 Mathematical Sciences Meetings of the current activities of the MSEB. and Conferences 65 New Publications Offered by the FEATURE COLUMNS AMS 68 AMS Reports and Communications 15 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin Reports of Past Meetings, 68 In this month's feature article, Larry Wos of the Argonne National Laboratory 70 Miscellaneous describes his experiences in developing and using the automated reasoning Personal Items, 70 system OTTER. Following the article, William Ruckle reviews Mathcad, Deaths, 70 Suzanne Molnar takes a look at Matrix Algebra, and Roger Pinkham road Visiting Mathematicians tests the Tl-85 calculator. Supplementary List, 70 71 New Members of the AMS 74 AMS Policy on Recruitment Advertising 75 Classified Advertising 91 Forms JANUARY 1993, VOLUME 40, NUMBER 1 1 Flat-Rate Research Funding: Two Views such as the Scientific Computing Research Equipment in the Mathematical Sciences program, have been set up to provide In the early fall of 1992, the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it support independent of salary. These programs have oper­ would institute a "ftat-rate" funding demonstration project. This ex­ ated to a large extent outside of the traditional disciplinary periment would have moved the DMS to a two-tiered grant system, programs in the DMS. The tradition within the disciplinary in which grantees would receive either $20,000 or $30,000, depend­ programs in the DMS was to make awards very closely ing on seniority, with additional fixed-rate supplements for graduate linked to a PI institution salary for the academic year, and the students and postdoctoral researchers (see ''NSF Proposes Changes Advisory Committee, in making a recommendation that the in Funding Mode for Mathematics", Notices, November 1992, page 1091, for more details on the project). Under pressure from the math­ DMS reconsider this close link between award size and salary, ematics community, the DMS decided to put the project on hold was certainly departing from tradition, but was not charting Another strong move against the project came when the NSF's Ad­ completely unknown territory. visory Committee for the Mathematical Sciences passed a resolution At its Spring 1992 meeting, the Advisory Committee saying they did not support implementation of the project at this time moved more firmly in this direction with a recommendation (see "Flat-Rate Funding Project at NSF', Notices, December 1992, system. The article "Flat­ page 1171). that the DMS set up a tiered award Although it appears that the flat-rate project will not be instituted Rate Funding Project at NSF' (Notices, December 1992, in the near future, there has been a great deal of discussion within the page 1171) discussed the history of the DMS response to community about the advantages and disadvantages of such a grant that recommendation and the subsequent response from the system. The following two articles present arguments
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