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Calendar This Calendar lists all of the meetings which have been approved by the Council up to the date this issue of the cNOtiuiJ 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 meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in most departments of mathematics; forms can also be obtained by writing to the headquarters of the Society. Abstracts to be presented at the meeting in person must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline for the meeting. Meeting Deadline for Abstracts* Number Date Place and News Items 715 May 13-18, 1974 DeKalb, Illinois March 27, 1974 August 1974 No summer meeting; inter June 15, 1974 national Cougress(see below) (News items only) 716 October 26, 1974 Middletown, Connecticut Sept. 3, 1974 717 November 8-9, 1974 Nashville, Tennessee Sept. 25, 1974 718 November 22-23, 1974 Los Angeles, California Sept. 25, 1974 719 November 23, 1974 Houston, Texas Sept. 25, 1974 720 January 23-27, 1975 Washington, D. C. Nov. 6, 1974 (81st Annual Meeting) April 18-19, 1975 Monterey, California August 18-22, 1975 Kalamazoo, Michigan January 22-26, 1976 San Antonio, Texas (82nd Annual Meeting) *Deadline for abstracts not presented at a meeting (by title). August 1974 issue: June 8 October 1974 issue: August 29 OTHER EVENTS August 21-29, 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians Vancouver, B. C., Canada April 15, 1974 The zip code of the Post Office Box of the Society has been changed from 02904 to 02940. 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Copyright© 1974 by the Americao Mathematical Society Printed in the United States of America OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Everett Pitcher and Gordon L. Walker, Editors Wend ell H. Fleming, Associate Editor CONTENTS MEETINGS Calender of Meetings • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Inside Front Cover Program for the April Meeting in New York •••••••••••• o. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 136 Abstracts for the Meeting: A-386-A-408 Program for the April Meeting in Santa Barbara •••••• 0.......................... 144 Abstracts for the Meeting A-409-A-413 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS .. •. .. .... • • .. • • .. • • • .. • .. .. .. • .. .. • 147 INVITED SPEAKERS AT AMS MEETINGS • . • • • • • • . • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • 151 CHAIRMEN AND TOPICS OF SPECIAL SESSIONS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 151 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION BUDGET • • .. • • .. .. • • .. .. .. .. • • .. .. • • • .. .. .. • .. .. • 152 COMBINED MEMBERSHIP LIST 1974-1975 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • 154 HOW TO TALK MATHEMATICS • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 155 LETTERS TO THE EDiTOR • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 158 QUERIES • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • • 159 SPECIAL MEETINGS INFORMATION CENTER .. .. .. • .. • • • .. • .. .. .. • .. • • • • .. • • .. .. ..• • 161 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 163 PERSONAL ITEMS • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • 165 NEWS ITEMS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS • • • .. • .. .. • .. • .. • • .. .. • • • • • • .. .. • • • .. • 160, 164, 168 SUMMER GRADUATE COURSES (Supplementary List) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 169 ASSISTANTSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS IN MATHEMATICS IN 1974-1975 (Supplementary List) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 169 ERRATA TO ABSTRACTS •••.•••••••.•.••••.• o. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 170 ABSTRACTS .••••••••••••.••••••••••••.••••..•••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A-363 SITUATIONS WANTED •••••••.•••••••. o ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A -413 RESERVATION FORM •• o •••••• o ••••••• o •• o o ••••••••••••• o o o •• , •• o •• o ••• o •• o •• , • o •••• A -430 The Seven Hundred Thirteenth MeetiDg Biltmore Hotel New York, New York April10 -13, 1974 The seven hundred thirteenth meeting of the symposium on Mathematical Aspects of American Mathematical Society will be held at Chemical and Biochemical Problems and the Biltmore Hotel, Madison Avenue at 43rd Quantum Chemistry is to be held on Wednesday Street, New York, New York, from Wednesday, and Thursday, April10 and 11. This topic was April10, through Saturday, April13, 1974, in selected by the AMS-SIAM Committee on Applied conjunction with the 1974 spring meeting of the Mathematics whose members are Earl A. Association for Symbolic Logic. Coddington, Hirsh G. Cohen (chairman), Lester By invitation of the Committee to Select E. Dubins, Harold Grad, J. Barkley ~osser, Hour Speakers for Eastern Sectional Meetings, and Richard S. Varga. The symposium is a there will be four one-hour addresses. Professor further attempt at encouraging and broadening Sol I. Rubinow of the Graduate School of Medical the inter-disciplinary research in the several Sciences, Cornell University, and the Sloan wide fields of mutual interest which exist be .Kettering Institute will speak on "Some mathe tween certain mathematicians, applied mathe matical problems in biology" at 11:00 a.m. on maticians, and researchers in chemical re Friday, April12. Professor George C. action theory, biochemistry, and quantum Papanicolaou of the Courant Institute of Mathe chemistry. The Organizing Committee includes matical Sciences, New York University, will DonaldS. Cohen (chairman), Hirsh G. Cohen, speak on "Asymptotic methods for stochastic Julian D. Cole, George R. Gavalas, and Aron equations" at 2:00p.m. on Friday, April12. Kupperman. Professor Serge Lang of Yale University will The program will consist of ten lectures. speak on "Higher dimensio.Qal diophantine prob The list of speakers includes Neal R. Amundson lems" at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April13. (University of Minnesota), Rutherford Aris (Uni Professor William P. Thurston of the Massachu versity of Minnesota), Joseph Higgins (The John setts Institute of Technology will speak on "The son Research Foundation, University of Pennsyl existence of foliations" at 2:00p.m. on Saturday, vania), Fritz Horn (University of Rochester), April13. Louis N. Howard (Massachusetts Institute of There will be two special sessions. Pro Technology), James C. Keck (Massachusetts fessor V. Lakshmikantham of the University of Institute of Technology), Herbert B. Keller (Cali Rhode Island and the University of Texas at fornia Institute of Technology), Aron Kupperman Arlington has organized a special session on (California Institute of Technology), Gregoire Nonlinear Problems in Differential and Integral Nicolls (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), and Equations for Friday afternoon and Saturday Arthur T. Winfree (Purdue University). The sym morning; speakers will be Bernard A. Asner, posium will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Jr., Constantin Corduneanu, Paul William Davis, Biltmore Hotel both days. Jerome Eisenfeld, John R. Haddock, Athanassios G. Kartsatos, Gangaram s. Ladde, S. Leela, MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION A. Richard Mitchell. Some of the talks will be FOR SYMBOLIC LOGIC based on papers with joint authorship which is in Invited addresses and sessions for con dicated in each case in the program of the ses tributed papers for the spring meeting of the sions. Professor Herbert S. Wilf of the Uni Association for Symbolic Logic are scheduled to versity of Pennsylvania and Rockefeller Univer sity has organized a special session on Combina be held in the Marlborough Room of the Biltmore Hotel oli April12-13. Programs, listing tiUes torial Algorithms for Saturday morning and and times for individual papers, will be available afternoon; speakers will be Jack Edmonds, at the registration desk located in the Key Room. Daniel J. Kleitman, Albert Nijenhuis, There will be two sessions for contributed Gian-Carlo Rota,