Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences Section
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Boulder Meeting {August 7-10) page 701 JULY/AUGUST 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 6 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings which have been approved prior to Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices the date this issue of Notices was sent to the press. The summer which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be sub and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Associ mitted on special forms which are available in many departments of ation of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meet mathematics and from the headquarters office of the Society. Ab ing dates which fall rather far in the future are subjeet to change; this stracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been as at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on signed. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special have appeared in earlier issues. sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are pub additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the lished in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American list of organizers of special sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 850 • August 7-10, 1989 Boulder, Colorado Expired July I August (92nd Summer Meeting) 851 • October 21-22, 1989 Hoboken, New Jersey August 16 October 852 • October 27-28, 1989 Muncie, Indiana August 16 October 853 • November 18-19, 1989 Los Angeles. California August 16 November 854 • January 17-20, 1990 Louisville, Kentucky October 11 December t (96th Annual Meeting) • March 16-17, 1990 Manhattan, Kansas December 12 February March 23-24, 1990 Fayetteville, Arkansas December 12 February •• April 7-8, 1990 University Park, Pennsylvania January 25 March August 8-11, 1990 Columbus, Ohio (93rd Summer Meeting) November 2-3, 1990 Denton. Texas January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California (97th Annual Meeting) August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine (94th Summer Meeting) January 8-11 , 1992 Baltimore, Maryland (98th Annual Meeting) June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) January 5-8, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (100th Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 752 for listing of special sessions. •• Please note a change in this date making it earlier than previously published. t Preregistration/Housing deadline is November 17 I Conferences June 3-August 5, 1989: Joint Summer Research August 7, 1989: AMS-SIAM-SMB Symposium on Some Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Humboldt Mathematical Questions in Biology, Sex Allocations and State University, Arcata, California Sex Change: Experiments and Models, University of August 6-7. 1989: AMS Short Course on Cryptology and Toronto. Computational Number Theory, Boulder, Colorado June/July 1990: AMS-Siam Summer Seminar on Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Methods, location to be announced. Deadlines October Issue November Issue December Issue January Issue Classified Ads* Aug 28, 1989 Oct 3, 1989 Oct 27, 1989 Nov 27, 1989 News Items Aug 29, 1989 Oct 5, 1989 Nov 2, 1989 Nov 27, 198~ Meeting Announcements•• • Aug 22, 1989 Sept 26, 1989 Oct 26, 1989 Nov 22, 1989 • 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 ARTICLES DEPARTMENTS 669 Feminist Critiques of Science 667 Letters to the Editor Are certain radical feminist critiques discouraging women from entering 684 News and Announcements mathematics and science? In this article, Allyn Jackson surveys recent literature that has drawn fire from some women mathematicians. 695 Funding Information for the Mathematical Sciences 699 Meetings and Conferences of the AMS (Listing) 758 1989 AMS Elections FEATURE COLUMNS 759 Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences 674 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise 770 New AMS Publications Four programs for use with matrices, calculus, typesetting, and 2 - D 781 Miscellaneous cellular automata are reviewed in this column. Also included is one letter Personal Items, 781 from a reader who discusses why mathematics departments routinely Deaths, 781 to comments about favor the PC environment, and another responding 782 Visiting Mathematicians a proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. (Supplement) 682 Washington Outlook Kenneth M. Hoffman 784 Reciprocity Agreements This month's column, written by Hans J. Oser, questions the slowness 792 New Members of the AMS of key Bush administration appointments and provides an inside look at 796 AMS Policy on Recruitment recent Capitol Hill hearings on the state of mathematics and science education. Advertising 797 Classified Advertising 817 Forms JULY/AUGUST 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 6 665 International Cooperation in Mathematics Mathematics often is referred to as an "international language," allowing commu AMERICAN MATHEMATICAl. SOCIETY nication and understanding beyond limitations that might otherwise be imposed by language and cultural barriers. Where the free flow of information has been possible, we see collaborative development in mathematics, irrespective of national differences. Recent developments in electronic communication are having a dramatic effect on the EDITORIAL COMMITTEE flow of information. It is now commonplace to carry on an interactive exchange with Robert J. Blattner, Michael G. Crandall colleagues located in various parts of the world via electronic mail andfor facsimile. Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) While these mechanisms are not always readily available for communication with the Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis Soviet Union, "glasnost" has inaugurated an exciting era of information exchange and Nancy K. Stanton, Robert E. L. Turner collaboration with our Soviet colleagues. INTERIM MANAGING EDITOR James W. Maxwell A principal goal of the Society is facilitating exchange of mathematical information, primarily through its publication and meetings programs. Both activities have long ASSOCIATE EDITORS promoted international cooperation, but we are now seeing them take on an even Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles broader scope. Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The Society has been a leading supplier of mathematical literature translated from Subscription prices for Volume 36 (1989) are Russian and other Slavic languages and has begun a translation program from Chinese $1081ist; $86 institutional member; $65 individual and Japanese. Two new series of publications in the Russian Translation Program member. (The subscription price for members is will appear during the next year, Proceedings of Regional Conferences and Advances included in the annual dues.) A late charge of 10% of the subscription price will be imposed in Soviet Mathematics. The AMS will also translate a new Soviet journal, Algebra upon orders received from nonmembers after and Analysis, which will be published as The Leningrad Mathematical Journal. The January 1 of the subscription year. Add for post London Mathematical Society, a long-term partner with the AMS in the publication age: Surface delivery outside the United States of the English translation of the Soviet journal, Trudy Moscow, has now joined the and lndia-$10; to lndia-$20; expedited deliv AMS in publishing a new series devoted to the history of mathematics. The Society ery to destinations in North America-$15; else is also supporting the efforts of the Third World Academy of Sciences, the American where-$38. Subscriptions and orders for AMS Association for the Advancement of Science, and others in providing mathematical publications should be addressed to the Amer literature to our colleagues around the world. ican Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, An nex Station, Providence, Rl 02901-9930. All or ders must be prepaid. Meetings involving Society sponsorship are also incorporating greater international co operation. The AMS is jointly sponsoring a meeting with the London Mathematical ADVERTISING Society, which is to be held in Cambridge, England, in the summer of 1992, and is Notices publishes situations wanted and classi exploring the possibility of joint meetings with representatives of other mathematical fied advertising, and display advertising for pub lishers and academic or scientific organizations. organizations around the world. New international agreements and programs are be Copyright@ 1989 by the American Mathemat ing developed for collaborative meeting activity; examples include the new agreement ical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the established between the National Science Foundation and the Soviet Academy of Sci United States of America. ences reported in this issue of Notices and an increase in support for mathematicians The paper used in this journal is acid-free and travelling between North and South America. falls within the guidelines established to ensure permanence and durability. €9 Most of this pub The Society