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Notices of the American Mathematical Society Ill 0 I") Notices of the American Mathematical Society z 1: 3 o­ ..,tl) 0 n '""0 October 1981, Issue 212 o­ t1) ....... Volume 28, Number 6, Pages 465-568 \0 Providence, Rhode Island USA ....00 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. 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 meet­ ing. 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 790 November 6-7, 1981 Austin, Texas SEPTEMBER 10 November 791 November 1 3-14, 1981 Santa Barbara, California SEPTEMBER 14 November 792 January 1 3-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio OCTOBER 14 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 8-1 2, 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: (November issue) September 22, (january 1982 issue) November 17 News/Special Meetings: (November issue) September 8, (january 1982 issue) November 2 OTHER EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY January 7, 1982, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, Washington, D.C. This issue page 499. January 11-12, 1982, AMS Short Course: Computed Tomography, Cincinnati, Ohio. This issue page 487. April 12-15, 1982, AMS Symposium on Several Complex Variables, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 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 ma;ling 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 infor­ mation which are essential 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 office boxes in Providence. All general correspondence should be addressed to the Society at Post Office Box 6248, Providence, Rl 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 or to Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences should be addressed to Post Office Box 6887, Providence, Rl 02940. [Notices is published eight times a year (January, February, April, june, August, October, November, December) by the American Mathematical Society at 201 Charles Street, Providence, Rl 02904. Second class 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 technical requirement of the U. 5. Postal Service. This address should never be used by correspondents, unless they plan to deliver their messages by hand. Members are strongly urged to notify the Society themselves of address changes (in the manner described above), since (as 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 6, October 1981 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Ralph P. Boas, Ed Dubinsky Richard]. Griego, Susan Montgomery 466 MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY Mary Ellen Rudin, Bertram Walsh Amherst, Massachusetts, October 16, 466 Everett Pitcher (Chairman) Austin, Texas, November 6, 479 MANAGING EDITOR Santa Barbara, California, November 13, 481 lincoln K. Durst Cincinnati, Ohio, january 11, 484 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mathematical Sciences Employment Register, 500 Hans Samelson, Queries Symposium on Mathematical Biology, Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles Washington, D. C., january 7, 499 SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS 1983 AMS Summer Institute, 480 Notices is published eight times a 1983 AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar, 480 year (January, February, April, I une, Special Sessions, 483; Invited Speakers, 483 August, October, November, and December). Subscription for Vol. 28 504 1981 STEELE PRIZES (1981), $22.00 list, $11.00 member. The subscription price for members 512 QUERIES is included in the annual dues. Sub· 513 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR scriptions and orders for AMS publi­ cations should be addressed to the 517 CRYPTOLOGY REPORT American Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, 527 AMS SUMMER RESEARCH CONFERENCES Providence, R.I. 02901. 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Address correspondence 552 ADVERTISEMENTS to American Mathematical Society, Classified Advertising, 552; AMS Policy on P.O. Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940. Recruitment Advertising, 554; ElMS Subscrip­ Telephone 401·272-9500. tion Forms, 562, 563 Second class postage paid at 564 PREREGISTRATION FORMS Providence, Rl,and additional mailing offices. Copyright © 1981 by the Employment Register Forms, 565, 566; American Mathematical Society, Cincinnati Preregistration and Housing Printed in the United States of America. Form, 567, 568 Amherst, October 16-18, 1981, University of Massachusetts Program for the 189th Meeting The seven hundred eighty-ninth meeting of the Kac-Moody Lie theory, HOWARD GARLAND, American Mathematical Society will be held at the Yale University, and JAMES HURLEY, University of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on October 16- Connecticut. The speakers are Mark Adler, Etsuro 18, 1981. The Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Date, Vinay V. Deodhar, Howard D. Fegan, Alex J. Mt. Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University Feingold, Igor B. Frenkel, Howard Garland, Euguene of Massachusetts, Amherst) are joint hosts for this Gutkin, James F. Hurley, Victor G. Kac, James meeting. Lepowsky, Arne E. Meurman, Jun Morita, Alvany Rocha-Caridi, Peter Slodowy, and Gregg J. Zuckerman. Invited Addresses Combinatorial set theory, JAMES M. HENLE By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour and STANLEY WAGON, Smith College. The Speakers for Eastern Sectional Meetings, there will be speakers are Donna M. Carr, E. F. Cornelius, Jr., four invited one-hour addresses. The names of the Marcia J. Groszek, James M. Henle, Thomas J. Jech, speakers and the titles of their talks are: Donald H. Pelletier, Ned I. Rosen, Juris Steprans, MELVYN S. BERGER, University of Massachu­ Franklin D. Tall, Alan D. Taylor, Ronald J. Watro, and setts, Amherst, The confinement problem in non­ William S. Zwicker. linear gauge theories and in nonlinear analysis. Clu.ster analysis, MELVIN F. JANOWITZ, Uni­ 0. BETTANCOURT, Courant Institute of Mathe­ versity of Massachusetts, Amherst. The speakers matical Sciences, New York University, A com­ are Forrest B. Baulieu, Hamparsum Bozdogan, Jack putational method for 9-D nonlinear mag­ Bryant, C. H. Chen, William H. E. Day, Robert M. netohydrodynamics. Haralick, M. F. Janowitz, Enrique H. Ruspini, Stanley J. H. SAMPSON, Johns Hopkins University, L. Sclove, D. N. Spinelli, and Danny W. Turner.
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