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Notices: Highlights Notices of the American Mathematical Society November 1986, Issue 251 Volume 33, Number 6, Pages 889- 1032 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 Notices was sent to the 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 meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary 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 the meeting. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarter's office of the Society. 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 abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information. consult the meeting announcements and the list of organizers of special sessions. ABSTRACT MEETING# DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 831 January 21-24, 1987 San Antonio, Texas EXPIRED January (93rd Annual Meeting)* 832 March 2~28, 1987 Honolulu, Hawaii February 2 February 833 April 3-4, 1987 Kent, Ohio February 4 February 834 April 25-26, 1987 Newark, New Jersey February 6 February 835 June 18-20, 1987 Tacoma, Washington April17 June 836 August 5-8. 1987 Salt Lake City, Utah January ~9. 1988 Atlanta, Georgia (94th Annual Meeting) August 8-12, 1988 Providence, Rhode Island (AMS Centennial Celebration) January 11-14, 1989 Phoenix, Arizona (95th Annual Meeting) • Preregistration/Housing deadline is November 15. DEADLINES Advertising (Jan. 1987 Issue) Nov. 12. 1986 (Feb. 1987 Issue) Feb. 18. 1987 (Apr. 1987 Issue) Mar. 23. 1987 News/SMIC (Jan. 1987 Issue) Oct. 27. 1986 (Feb. 1987 Issue) Feb. 2. 1987 (Apr. 1987 Issue) Mar. 5, 1987 Other Events Sponsored by the Society January 2o-22, 1987, AMS Short Course: The Moment Problem, San Antonio, Texas. Details: October issue. 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