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Graduate Programs in Statistics/Biostatistics Table A New York City Program (Apri 114-15)- Page 310 Salt Lake City Program (April 29-30)- Page 323 Notices of the American Mathematical Society April 1983, Issue 225 Volume 30, Number 3, Pages 249-384 Providence, Rhode Island USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings THIS CALENDAR lists all meetings which have been approved by the Council prior to the date this issue of the Notices was sent to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the Ameri­ can Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and second announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of tho meet­ ing. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the office of the Society in Providence. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for ab­ stracts submitted for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information consult the meeting announcement and the list of organizers of special sessions. MEETING ABSTRACT NUMBER DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 803 April 14-15, 1983 New York, New York EXPIRED April 804 April 29-30, 1983 Salt Lake City, Utah EXPIRED April 805 August 8-12, 1983 Albany, New York MAY 17, 1983 August (87th Summer Meeting) 806 October 28-29, 1983 Fairfield, Connecticut AUGUST 23, 1983 October 807 November 11-12, 1983 San Luis Obispo, California AUGUST 25, 1983 October 808 November 11-12, 1983 Evanston, Illinois AUGUST 29, 1983 October 809 January 25-29, 1984 Louisville, Kentucky NOVEMBER 2, 1983 January (90th Annual Meeting) 1984 April 6-7, 1984 Notre Dame, Indiana January 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) January 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising (june Issue) April 21,1983 (August Issue) june 8, 1983 News/Special Meetings: Uune Issue) April 5, 1983 (August Issue) May 23, 1983 Other Events Sponsored by the Society April12-13, 1983, AMS-SIAM Symposium on Inverse Problems, New York Statler Hotel, New York, New York. This issue, page 312. May 1983, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, Detroit, Michigan. This issue, page 331. June 5-August 13, 1983, AMS Summer Research Conferences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. January issue, page 7 4. June 27 -July 8, 1983, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Large-scale Computations in Fluid Mechanics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, LaJolla, California. February issue, page 199. July 11-29, 1983, AMS Summer Research Institute on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, University of California, Berkeley. This issue, page 332. August 6-7, 1983, AMS Short Course: Population Biology, Albany, New York. This issue, page 336 Subscnbers' changes of address should be reported well in advance to avoid disruption of service: address labels are prepared four to six weeks in advance of the date of mailing. Requests for a change of address should always include the member or subscriber code and preferably a copy of the entire mailing label. 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