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Amherst Meeting (October 26-27)- Page 611 Columbia Meeting (November 1-2)-Page 625 Claremont Meeting (November 8-9)- Page 634 Notices of the American Mathematical Society October 1985, Issue 243 Volume 32, Number 5, Pages 569-736 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 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 headquarters 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 822 October 26-27. 1985 Amherst. Massachusetts EXPIRED October 823 November 1-2. 1985 Columbia. Missouri EXPIRED October 824 November 8-9. 1985 Claremont. California EXPIRED October 825 January 7-11. 1986 New Orleans. Louisiana October 16 January (92nd Annual Meeting) 826 April 11-12. 1986 Indianapolis. Indiana February 5 March 827 May 3-4. 1986 Baltimore. Maryland February 10 March August 3-11. 1986 Berkeley. California AprilS (International Congress of Mathematicians) October 1Q-11. 1986 Logan. Utah October 31-November 1. Denton. Texas 1986 January 21-25. 1987 San Antonio. Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) January 6-11. 1988 Atlanta. Georgia (94th Annual Meeting) August 8-12. 1988 Providence. Rhode Island (AMS Centennial Celebration) January 11-15. 1989 Phoenix. Arizona (95th Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising (November 1985 Issue) Oct. 2. 1985 (January 1986 Issue) Nov. 14, 1985 News/Special Meetings (November 1985 Issue) Sept. 16. 1985 (January 1986 Issue) Oct. 28. 1985 Other Events Sponsored by the Society January 5-6. 1986. AMS Short Course: Approximation Theory. New Orleans. Louisiana. Details: January issue. June 22-August 2. 1986. Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences. University of California. Santa Cruz. California. Details: this issue. July 7-25. 1986. AMS Summer Research Institute on Representations of Finite Groups and Related Topics. California location to be announced. Details: January issue. Suscribers' changes of address should be reported well in advance to avoid disruption of service: address labels are prepared four to six weeks in advance of the date of mailing. Requests for a change of address should a/ways include the member 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 information which are essential for the AMS records. Suitable forms are published from time to time in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (e.g. March 1985. page 325). Send change of address notices to the Society at Post Office Box 6248. Providence. Rl 02940. [Notices of the American Mathematical Society is published seven times a year (January, March. 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 Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Membership and Sales Department, American Mathematical Society. P. 0. 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. S. Postal Service. All correspondence should be mailed to the Post Office Box. NOT the street address. Members are strongly urged to notify the Society themselves of address changes. since 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 32, Number 5, October 1985 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Paul F. Baum. Ralph P. Boas Raymond L. Johnson. Mary Ellen Rudin 570 1986 International Congress of Steven H. Weintraub. Daniel Zelinsky Mathematicians, Yousef Alavi, Andrew M. Everett Pitcher (Chairman) Gleason, Peter Hilton, Jill P. Mesirov, Jean Pedersen MANAGING EDITOR 572 International Congress of Mathematicians First Announcement Jill P. Mesirov 575 1985 Steele Prizes Awarded In Laramie ASSOCIATE EDITORS 580 The Academic Mathematicians-A Time of Stuart Antman, Queries Challenge Hans Samelson, Queries 584 28th Annual AMS Survey (Supplementary Report) Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles Institutional Support for Mathematical Science SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Departments, Bernard L. Madison Subscription prices for Volume 32 589 Call for Information (1985) are $65 list; $52 institutional Mathematical Word Processing/Typesetting member; $39 individual member. (The 590 News and Announcements subscription price for members is 600 NSF News and Reports included in the annual dues.) A late 604 For Your Information charge of 10% of the subscription price 606 Letters to the Editor will be imposed upon orders received from nonmembers after January 1 of the 608 Queries subscription year. Subscribers outside 610 1985 Elections the United States and India must pay a 611 Future Meetings of the Society postage surcharge of $5; subscribers in Amherst, October 26-27, 611; Columbia, November India must pay a postage surcharge of 1-2, 625; Claremont, November 8-9, 634; New $15. 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Mathematicians (Supplementary List), Requests for information: 685; Application Deadlines, 688 Advertising: Wahlene Siconio 690 AMS Reports and Communications Change of address or subscriptions: Recent Appointments, 690; Reports of Past Eileen Linnane Meetings: Chicago, 690; Worcester, 691; 1985 Book order number 800-556-7774. Mathematical Biology Symposium, 691; 1985 Summer Seminar, 692; 1985 Summer Research CORRESPONDENCE, including Institute, 692; Laramie Council and Business changes of address should be sent to Meetings, 692; Committee on Human Rights of American Mathematical Society, P.O. Mathematicians, 694 Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940. 695 Advertisements Second class postage paid at Providence, 724 Registration Form Rl. and additional mailing offices. Association for Women in Mathematics, 724 Copyright © 1985 by the American 726 Preregistration Forms Mathematical Society. All rights reserved. Employment Register, 726, 727, 728 Printed in the United States of America. New Orleans MAA Minicourses, 729 The paper used in this journal is acid-free New Orleans Preregistration and Housing, and falls within the guidelines established 731, 732 to ensure permanence and durability. 1986 International Congress Of Mathematicians by Yousef Alavi, Andrew M. Gleason, Peter Hilton, Jill P. Mesirov, and Jean Pedersen In the summer of 1986, the United States third ICM to be held in the United States; about mathematical community will be host to the 4000 mathematicians are expected to attend. International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM- Traditionally, arrangements for the Interna­ 86) from August 3-11 in Berkeley, California. tional Congress are made by an Organizing Com­ Because of the importance of this event, the mittee of volunteer mathematicians at and around American Mathematical Society will not hold its the site University. ICM-86 is a break with that summer meeting that year. tradition. Before inviting the International Math­ The purpose of a Congress is twofold. Through ematical Union to hold the 1986 Congress in the its scientific program, it provides an opportunity United States, the National Academy of Sciences for mathematicians to review the progress in asked the AMS to manage the organization of the their subject over the last four years, and Congress and to assume financial responsibility to award the Fields medals to some of the for it. The Society has chosen to
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