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Notices of the American Mathematical Society z 0 -1 n !"T'1 Vl )> 3: !"T'1 :;z:J 3: )> -1 :r: Vl 0 ('") Notices of the American Mathematical Society < ~ 1: 3 ('p N 00 z 1: 3 0" ...(!) z 0 <(!) 3 November 1981, Issue 213 CT ...(!) Volume 28, Number 7, Pages 569-664 ~ \,4:) 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 792 January 13-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio OCTOBER 14 January (88th Annual Meeting) 793 March 16--17, 1982 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania JANUARY 18, 1982 February 794 April 16-17, 1982 Madison, Wisconsin 795 June 16-17, 1982 Bellingham, Washington 796 August 23-27, 1982 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (86th Summer Meeting) November 19-20, 1982 Monterey, California 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: (January 1982 issue) November 17 (February issue) january 28 News/Special Meetings: (January 1982 issue) November 2 (February issue) january 11 OTHER EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY January 7, 1982, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, Washington, D.C. This issue, page 585. January 11-12, 1982, AMS Short Course: Computed Tomography, Cincinnati, Ohio. This issue, page 589. April 12-15, 1982, AMS Symposium on Several Complex Variables, University of Wisconsin, Madison. June 6-July 17, 1982, AMS Summer Research Conferences, University of New Hampshire, Durham. This issue, page 604. July 6-16, 1982, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Applications of Group Theory in Mathematical Physics, University of Chicago, Illinois. This issue, page 606. 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. 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Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 28, Number 7, November 1981 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Ralph P. Boas, Ed Dubinsky Richard J. Griego, Susan Montgomery 570 FUTURE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY Mary Ellen Rudin, Bertram Walsh Austin, Texas, November 6, 570 Everett Pitcher (Chairman) Santa Barbara, California, November 13, 580 MANAGING EDITOR Symposium on Mathematical Biology, Lincoln K. Durst Washington, D. C., january 7, 585 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Cincinnati, Ohio, january 11, 586 Hans Samelson, Queries Mathematical Sciences Employment Register, 600 Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles AMS Summer Research Conferences, 604 Calls for Topics, 579 SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS 1982 AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar, 606 Notices is published eight times a year (January, February, April, June, Invited Speakers, 606; Special Sessions, 606 August, October, November, and 607 QUERIES December). Subscription for Vol. 28 (1981), $22.00 list, $11.00 member. 608 25th ANNUAL AMS SURVEY The subscription price for members Faculty Salaries, Tenure, Women, 608; is included in the annual dues. Sub­ scriptions and orders for AMS publi­ 1981 Survey of New Doctorates, 613; cations should be addressed to the Salaries of New Doctorates, 616; American Mathematical Society, Two Decades of Academic Salaries in P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, Mathematics (1960-1980), 617; Doctoral Providence, R.I. 02901. All orders must be prepaid. Degrees Conferred in 1980-1981, 619 (1979-1980 Supplement, 634) ADVERTISING & INQUIRIES 635 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Notices publishes situations wanted and classified advertising, 637 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS and display advertising for publishers and academic or scientific organiza­ 638 AMS ELECTIONS OF 1981 tions. 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Copyright © 1981 by the Employment Register Forms, 661 662· American Mathematical Society, Cincinnati Preregistration ' ' Printed in the United States of America. and Housing Form, 663, 664 Austin, Texas, November 6-7, 1981, Sheraton-Crest Inn Program for the 790th Meeting The seven hundred ninetieth meeting of the Ameri­ University of Texas, Austin. The speakers will be can Mathematical Society will be held at the Sheraton­ Dale E. Alspach, Alfred D. Andrew, Spiros Argyros, Crest Inn, Austin, Texas, on Friday and Saturday, Steven F. Bellenot, Jean Bourgain, Peter G. Casazza, November 6-7, 1981. Sessions will be held in the G. A. Edgar, John H. Elton, Aggie G. Ho, William B. second floor Convention Center of the Sheraton-Crest. Johnson, Joram Lindenstrauss, Heinrich P. Lotz, N. Tenney Peck, S. Reisner, James W. Roberts, Stanislaw Invited Addresses J. Szarek, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, and John E. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Wolfe. Speakers for Western Sectional Meetings, there will be Quasiconformal mappings, BRUCE P. PALKA, four invited on&-hour addresses. The speakers, their University of Texas, Austin. The speakers will be titles, and the scheduled times of presentation are as Stephen Agard, Glen D. Anderson, David Drasin, follows: Frederick P. Gardiner, Frederick W. Gehring, Jane M. SALAH BAOUENDI, Purdue University, Over­ P. Gilman, F. David Lesley, Albert Marden, Ruth determined systems of complex vector fields and Miniowitz, Marvin Ortel, Brad G. Osgood, Bruce P. C.R. functions, 11:00 a.m. Friday. Palka, Glenn E. Schober, and Allen Weitsman. JOHN M. FRANKS, Northwestern University, Number theory and related parts of analysis, Structurally stable diffeomorphisms of compact JEFFREY D. V AALER, University of Texas, Austin. surfaces, 1:45 p.m. Friday. The speakers will be Bruce C. Berndt, Brian Conrey, CAMERON MeA. GORDON, University of Texas, Thomas W. Cusick, P.D.T.A. Elliot, Paul Erdos, Austin, Concordance of classical knots, 11:00 a.m. Ronald J. Evans, John B. Friedlander, Mary Elizabeth Saturday. Gbur, Dorian Goldfeld, Steven M. Gonek, James EDGAR REICH, University of Minnesota, Min­ Lee Hafner, Heini Halberstam, Donald G. Hazelwood, neapolis, Plane quasiconformal mappings and Dennis A. Hejhal, Douglas A. Hensley, Jeffrey C. analytic functions - analytic and geometric Lagarias, Kevin S.
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