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Notices of the American Mathematical Society Notices of the American Mathematical Society < 2.. c:: 3 ~ N 00 z c:: 3 C"' ...~ August 1981, Issue 211 Volume 28, Number 5, Pages 385-464 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. AISTRACTS 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 meet· lng. 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 789 October 16-18, 1981 Amherst, Massachusetts AUGUST 20 October 790 November 6-7, 1981 Austin, Texas SEPTEMBER 10 November 791 November 13-14, 1981 Santa Barbara, California SEPTEMBER 14 November 792 January 13-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio OCTOBER14 january (88th Annual Meeting) April 16-17, 1982 Madison, Wisconsin August 23-27, 1982 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (86th Summer Meeting) January 5-9, 1983 Denver, Colorado (89th Annual Meeting) August 8-12, 1983 Albany, New York (87th Summer Meeting) january 25-29, 1984 Louisville, Kentucky (90th Annual Meeting) January 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) january 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising: (October issue) August 27, {November issue) September 22 News/Special Meetings: (October issue) August 17, (November issue) September 8 OTHER EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY july 20-August 7, AMS Summer Institute on Singularities, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, April issue, page 232 April 12-15, 1982, AMS Symposium on Several Complex Variables, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Subscribers' changes of address should be reported well In advance to avoid disruption of service: address labels are pre· pared four to six weeks in advance of the date of mailing. Requests for a change of address should always include the mem· ber or subscriber code and preferably a copy of the entire mailing label. Members are reminded that U. S. Postal Service change-of-address forms are not adequate for this purpose, since they make no provision for several important items of in for· matlon which are essenUal for the AMS records. Suitable forms are published from time to time in the Notices (e.g. june 1980, page 378). The Society rents three post offi~e boxes in Providence. All general ~orrespondence should be addressed to the Society at Post Office Box 6248, Providen~e, fU 02940; dues payments and orders for Society publications (except for ElMS) should be addressed to Post Office Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, Rl 02901; all correspondence relating to preregistration for meetings Clr to Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences should be addressed to Post Office Box 6887, Providence, Rl 02940. [Notices is published eifht times a year (January, February, April, june, August, October, November, Decernber) by the American Mathematical Soc1ety at 201 Charles Street, Providence, Rl 02904. Second ~lass postage paid at Providence, Rl and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change notices to Membership and Sales Department, American Mathematical Society, Post Office Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940.) Publication here of the Society's street address, and the other information in brackets above, is a te~hnical requlreme~ of the U.S. Postal Service. This address should never be used by CCirrespondents, unless they plan to deliver their messages by hand. Members are strongly urged to notify the So~iety themselves of address changes (in the manner described above), since (a explained above) reliance on the postal service change·of·address forms is .liable to cause delays in processing such requests In the AMS office. Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 28, Number 5, August 1981 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Ralph P. Boas, Ed Dubinsky Richard). Griego, Susan Montgomery Mary Ellen Rudin, Bertram Walsh Everett Pitcher (Chairman) MANAGING EDITOR Lincoln K. Durst ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR QUERIES Hans Samelson 386 MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 15, 386 Notices is published eight times a Amherst, Massachusetts, October 16, 415 year (January, February, April, june, Austin, Texas, November 6, 418 August, October, November, and Santa Barbara, California, November 13, 419 December). Subscription for Vol. 28 Invited Speakers, 420; Special Sessions, 420 (1981), $22.00 list, $11.00 member. The subscription price for memb"ers 420 AMS RECIPROCITY AGREEMENTS {Supplement) is included in the annual dues. Sub· scriptions and orders for AMS publi· 421 ELECTION INFORMATION cations should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, 422 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, R.I. 02901. All orders 425 QUERIES must be prepaid. 426 WARSAW CONGRESS, 1982 427 NSF RESEARCH INSTITUTES ADVERTISING & INQUIRIES The Notices publishes situations 430 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS wanted and classified advertising, and display advertising for publishers 432 NSF NEWS & REPORTS and academic or scientific organiza­ tions. Requests for information: 433 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS Advertising: Virginia Biber 436 SPECIAL MEETINGS Change of address or subscriptions: Rena Harty 439 MISCELLANEOUS Book Order number 800·556·7774. Personal Items, 439; Deaths, 439; To avoid interruption in service please Visiting Mathematicians, 440; send address changes four to six weeks in advance. It is essential Backlog of Mathematical Research journals, 444 to include the member code which 446 AMS REPORTS & COMMUNICATIONS appears on the address label with all correspondence regarding Treasurer's Report, 446; subscriptions. Address correspondence Recent Appointments, 447; to American Mathematical Society, Council Meeting in Pittsburgh, 448; P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940. MATHFILE {Computerized Retrieval Telephone 401·272·9500. Service), 449; Officers and Committee Members Second class postage paid at of the Society, 452 Providence, Rl, and additional mailing offices. Copyright © 1981 by the 455 ADVERTISEMENTS American Mathematical Society, Classified Advertising, 455; Printed in the United States of America. ElMS Subscription Forms, 457, 458 PITTSBURGH MEETINGS, AUGUST 15-21, 1981 Program for the 85th Summer Meeting The August 1981 Joint Mathematics Meetings, 85TH SUMMER MEETING OF THE AMS including the 85th summer meeting of the AMS, the August 18-21, 1981 61st summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, and the 1981 annual meeting of Pi Colloquium Lectures Mu Epsilon, will be held August 17-21, 1981 (Monday- Friday), at the University of Pittsburgh. There will be a series of four Colloquium Lectures The meetings will be preceded by the AMS Short presented by SERGE LANG of Yale University. The Course on August 15 and 16 (Saturday and Sunday), title of the lecture series is Units and class numbers 1981. in algebraic geometry and number theory. The lectures will be given in 120 and 121 David Lawrence The members of the Local Arrangements Commit­ Hall. The times and dates of the lectures are 1:00 p.m. tee are Elayne Arrington-Idowu, F. Gonzalez Asenjo, on Tuesday, August 18, and 11:10 a.m. on Wednesday, Benedicty, Frank T. Birtel (ex William A. Beck, Mario Thursday, and Friday, August 19, 20, and 21. officio), Jacob Burbea (chairman), W. Eugene Deskins, Barbara T. Faires, James P. Fink, William G. Fleissner, Steele Prizes Ka-Sing Lau, William J. LeVeque (ex officio), Earle F. The 1981 Leroy P. Steele Prizes will be awarded at Myers (publicity director), David P. Roselle (ex officio), a session at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 20 in 120 Kathleen Ann Taylor, Earl G. Whitehead, and Melvin and 121 David Lawrence Hall. Woodard. Invited Addresses By invitation of the Program Committee, there will WHERE TO FIND IT PAGE be eight invited one-hour addresses. The names of the speakers, titles of their talks, and times of their SUMMER MEETING OF THE AMS 386 Colloquium Lectures, Prizes, Invited Addresses, addresses are as follows: Special Sessions, Contributed Papers, Council SHREERAM ABHYANKAR, Purdue University, and Business Meetings, Other AMS Sessions Singularities, 1:00 p.m. Thursday. AMS SHORT COURSE 387 RICHARD W. BEALS, Yale University, Scatter­ TIMETABLE 389 ing, inverse scattering, and evolution equations, 1:00 p.m. Friday. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS 390 ANDREW CASSON, University of Cambridge, AWM, MAA, TIME England (title not
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