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OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 15, NUMBER 6 ISSUE NO. 108 OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Edited by Everett Pitcher and Gordon L. Walker CONTENTS MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings ..•..•....•..•....•...........•..•.. 846 Program for the October Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland ..••...•... 847 Abstracts for the Meeting- Pages 903-908 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS ••••..••••••.•••••.• 850 ACTIVITIES OF OTHER ASSOCIATIONS ••••••.•.•..••••••••••••••. 854 POLITICAL PRESSURE VS SCIENTIFIC UNITY .•••••..•••••.•••••••. 855 MEMORANDA TO MEMBERS Mathematical Sciences Employment Register ...........•...•.... 857 Retired Mathematicians ..•.•.••.•••••........•.•..•.•.... 857 Summer Employment Opportunities •••••••••••••••.....•.••••. 858 Periodicals Published by the London Mathematical Society ...•....... 858 DEFENSE RESEARCH: QUESTIONS FOR VIETNAM DISSENTERS •••••.•••• 859 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR •••••••••••••.•••••••••••••..•••••• 861 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS ••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••.••••.•. 863 NEWS ITEMS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 854, 856, 862, 865, 876 ANNUAL SALARY SURVEY ••••••••••••.••••••..•.•••••••••••. 869 PERSONAL ITEMS ••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••...••••... 872 DOCTORATES CONFERRED IN 1967-1968 ••••••••••..••.•.•••••••• 877 ABSTRACTS OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 903 ERRATA • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • • • . • • • • • • 949 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • . ••••••••••••.• 963 RESERVATION FORM .•••••••••••••••••.••••.•••••.•.•••••• 964 MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings NOTE: This Calendar lists all of the meetings which have been approved by the Council up to the date at which this issue of the cA~t~<MJ was sent to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change. This is particularly true of the meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Meet Deadline ing Date Place for No. Abstracts* 66() November 8-9, 1968 Clemson, South Carolina Sept, 25, 1968 661 November 16, 1968 Riverside, California Sept. 25, 1968 662 November 29-30, 1968 Evanston, Illinois Sept. 25, 1968 663 January 23-27, 1969 (75th Annual Meeting) New Orleans, Louisiana Nov. 8, 1968 664 April 2-5, 1969 New York, New York Feb. 14, 1969 665 A;>ril 18-19, 1969 Chicago, Illinois Feb. 14, 1969 666 April 26, 1969 Santa Cruz, California Feb. 14, 1969 August 25-29, 1969 (74th Summer Meeting) Eugene, Oregon January 22-26, 1970 (76th Annual Meeting) Miami, Florida August 24-28, 1970 (75th Sum mer Meeting) Laramie, Wyoming January 21-25, 1971 (77th Annual M-eeting) Atlantic City, New Jersey *The abstracts of papers to be presented in person at the meetings must be received in the Head quarters Offices of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before these deadlines. The dead lines also apply to news items. The next two deadlines for by-title abstracts will be November I, 1968. ··~~··· The cNotiaiJ of the American Mathematical Society is published by the Society in January, February, April, June, August, Oc~ober, November ~nd December. ~rice per annual volume is $12.00. Price per copy $3.00. Special price for copies sold at reg1stratwn desks of meetmgs of the Soc1ety, $1.00 per copy. Subscriptions, orders for back numbers (back issues of the last two years only are available) and inquiries should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6248, Providence, Rhode Island 02904. Second-class postage paid at Providence, Rhode Island, and additional mailing offices. Authorization is granted under the_ ~uthority of the act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the act of August 4, 1947 (Sec. 34,21, P. L. and R.). Accepted for mallmg at the spec1al rate of Postage provided for in section 34,40, paragraph (d). Copyright©. 1968 by the American Mathematical Society Printed in the United States of America 846 Six Hundred Fifty-Ninth Meeting The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland October 26, 1968 The six hundred fifty-ninth meeting buted ten-minute papers at 9:30a.m. and of the American Mathematical Society will at 3:15p.m. be held at The Johns Hopkins University in All sessions and registration will Baltimore, Maryland, on October 26, 1968. take place in Shaffer Hall. By invitation of the Committee to A section of the student cafeteria Select Hour Speakers for Eastern Sectional in Levering Hall serving soups, sand Meetings the following two lectures will be wiches, a small selection of salads, and presented: Professor Wilhelm Magnus of beverages will be open and can accommo New York University will speak on "Re date those attending the meeting. Restau sidually finite groups" at 11:00 a.m. Pro rants are also con.veniently located off fessor A vron Douglis of the University of campus. Maryland will speak on "The existence of Parking space will be available at weak solutions of first order partial dif the locations marked C, D, G, J, K, 4, and 7 ferential equations" at 2:00p.m. on the following map. There will be sessions for contri- 847 PROGRAM OF THE SESSIONS The time limit for each contributed paper is 10 minutes. The contributed papers are scheduled at 15 minute intervals. To maintain this schedule, the time limit will be strictly enforced. SATURDAY, 9:30 A. M. Session on Applied Mathematics and Analysis, Shaffer Hall, Room 1 9:30-9:40 ( 1) Modified Runge-Kutta-Nystrom methods Professor Srisakdi Charmonman* and Mr. D. G. Barry, University of Alberta (659-5) 9:45-9:55 (2) Holor representation of nonsinusoidal quantities Professor Parry Moon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pro fessor D. E. Spencer*, University of Connecticut (659-15) 10:00-10:10 ( 3) Identification and confidence regions Mrs. F. M. Carroll, Raytheon Company, Sudbury, Massachusetts (659-16) 10:15-10:25 (4) A Fubini-,jessen theorem for the generalized Lebesgue-Bochner integral Professor Witold Bogdanowicz, Catholic University of America, and Pro fessor Vernon Zander*, West Georgia College (659-13) 10:30-10:40 ( 5) An algebraic characterization of distributions Professor R. A. Struble, North Carolina State University, Raleigh (659-9) SATURDAY, 11:00 A.M. Invited Address, Shaffer Hall, Room 3 Residually finite groups Professor Wilhelm Magnus, New York University SATURDAY, 2:00P.M. Invited Address, Shaffer Hall, Room 3 The existence of weak solutions of first order partial differential equations Professor Avron Douglis, University of Maryland SA TU RDA Y, 3: 15 P. M. Session on Analysis, Shaffer Hall, Room 1 3:15-3:25 ( 6) On a problem of C. Renyi concerning Julia lines Professor K. F. Barth and Professor W. J. Schneider*, Syracuse Univer sity (659-17) 3:30-3:40 (7) Analytic continuation of local functional equations. I Mr. Bernard Berlowitz, University of California, Berkeley ( 659 -12) 3:45-3:55 (8) Two renorming constructions related to a question of Anselone Professor Victor Klee, University of Washington (659-14) *For papers with more than one author, an asterisk follows the name of the author who plans to present the paper at the meeting. 848 4:00-4:10 ( 9) Some applications of Hewitt's factorization theorem Professor H. S. Collins and Mr. W. H. Summers*, Louisiana State Uni versity (659-1) 4:15-4:25 ( 10) Products of representations of discrete groups Mr. J. C. Bradley, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland (659-4) 4:30-4:40 ( 11) On semi-invariant measure on a locally compact semigroup Professor S. G. Bourne, University of California, Berkeley ( 659-11) SATURDAY, 3:15 P.M. Session on Topology, Algebra and Logic, Shaffer Hall, Room 2 3:15-3:25 (12) Products of ideals. Preliminary report Professor C. E. Aull, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (659-3) 3:30-3:40 (13) !-regular semigroups. I Professor R. J. Warne, West Virginia University (659-8) 3:45-3:55 (14) A configuration related to symmetric block designs. Preliminary report Professor A. T. Butson, University of Miami (659-10) 4:00-4:10 (15) On permanents of v-k- X configurations Mr. R. B. Levow, University of Pennsylvania (659-2) (Introduced by Professor H. S. Wilf) 4:15-4:25 (16) On the richness of subtheories of ZF + GCH Professor J. H. Harris, Stevens Institute of Technology (659-7) Herbert Federer Providence, Rhode Island Associate Secretary 849 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS Six Hundred Sixtieth Meeting Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina November 8-9,1968 The six hundred sixtieth meeting new University Dining Hall, both on camp of the American Mathematical Society us. Coffee and doughnuts will be served will be held at the Clemson University, each morning in the lounge of the Mathe Clemson, South Carolina, November 8-9, matics Building. An informal social is 1968. planned for Friday evening in lieu of a By invitation of the Committee to banquet. Select Hour Speakers, there will be three The Clemson House is a completely invited addresses. Professor C. H. Ed modern, university owned, hotel located wards, Jr. of the University of Georgia on campus within a five minutes' walk will present an address entitled "Piece from the Mathematics Building. The hotel wise linear embedding and unknotting will honor all requests for accommodations problems"; Professor Malcolm Robert up to 300. Rates are as follows: son of the University of Delaware will Single $1 address the meeting, the title of his talk o.oo 14.00 will be "Quasi-subordination and coeffi Double cient conjectures";