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Mathematical Society Notices of the American Mathematical Society November 1983, Issue 229 Volume 30, Number 7, Pages 713-840 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. 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 809 january 25-28, 1984 Louisville, Kentucky NOVEMBER 2, 1983 january (90th Annual Meeting) 1984 810 April 6-7, 1984 Notre Dame, Indiana FEBRUARY 1, 1984 February 811 April 13-14, 1984 Richmond, Virginia FEBRUARY 6, 1984 February 812 june 29-july 1, 1984 Plymouth, New Hampshire APRIL 23 june 813 August 16-19, 1984 Eugene, Oregon November 2-3, 1984 Minneapolis, Minnesota November 9-10, 1984 San Diego, California january 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) March 22-23, 1985 Chicago, Illinois January 7-11, 1986 New Orleans, Louisiana (92nd Annual Meeting) january 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising Uanuary 1984 Issue) December 1, 1983 (February 19841ssue) February 16,1984 News/Special Meetings: Uanuary 1984 Issue) November 9, 1983 (February 1984 Issue) January 30, 1984 Other Events Sponsored by the Society january 23-24, 1984, AMS Short Course: Mathematics of Information Processing, Louisville, Kentucky. This issue, page 773. April 2-5, 1984, Symposium on Pseudodifferential Operators and Fourier Integral Operators with Applications to Partial Differential Equations, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. This issue, page 791. May 1984, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, DNA Sequence Analysis, New York, New York. June 1 0-August 18, 1984, joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. This issue, page 795. July 8-21, 1984, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Nonlinear Systems of PDE in Applied Mathematics, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. This issue, page 794. July 16-August 3, 1984, AMS Summer Research Institute on Geometric Measure Theory and the Calculus of Variations. Subscribers' 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 always 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 (e.g. June 1980, page 378). Send change of address notices to the Society at Post Office Box 6248, 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. S. Postal Service. The street 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 30, Number 7, November 1983 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 714 Mathematicians at Warsaw Congress Paul F. Baum, Ralph P. Boas 715 Survey of American Mathematical Research journals Raymond L. Johnson, Mary Ellen Rudin Bertram Walsh, Daniel Zelinsky 720 27th Annual AMS Survey Everett Pitcher {Chairman) Faculty Salaries, Tenure, Women, 720 MANAGING EDITOR 1983 Survey of New Doctorates, 726 Lincoln K. Durst Salaries of New Doctorates, 730 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Doctoral Degrees Conferred in 1982-1983, 734 Hans Samelson, Queries (1981-1982 Supplement, 747) Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles 748 Educating Americans for the 21st Century SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS Subscription for Vol. 30 (1983): 756 Nonacademic Employers of Mathematicians, $39 list, $20 member. The subscription David H. Bailey price for members is included in the 759 Queries annual dues. Subscriptions and orders for AMS publications should be 761 Letters to the Editor addressed to the American Mathematical 763 News and Announcements Society, P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, Rl 02901. 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Louisville Registration, 839, 840 Mathematicians Invited to Address the Warsaw Congress The list of speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 1983, in Warsaw, Poland, printed below updates the list which appeared on page 572 of the October 1983 issue of the Notices. Names marked with a small disk (•) are those of invited speakers who were not present in Warsaw to present their talks. Some of them reported in advance that they would not attend, and others gave such notice at the last minute. At least one person (Professor Lusztig of MIT), listed in the previous issue as not present, did indeed speak. The present list is based on information provided by the Congress organizers and other persons who attended. The EDITORS would appreciate notice of any further corrections that may be required. One-hour Plenary 4- Geometry 9. Real and june- • K. Osterwalder Addresses: S. Y. Cheng tiona! analysis 0. Lady~enskaja V.I. Arnold W. Miiller R. Askey L. A. Takhtajan C. Hooley • E. B. Vinberg T. Figiel 14. Control theory and V. P. Maslov N. J. Hitchin Y. Meyer optimization A. Pelczynski L. Simon D. Voiculescu R. W. Brockett M. Sato • 0. Ja. Viro J. Bourgain P.-L. Lions • R. Thorn A. G. Hovansky B.S. Ka~in H. W. Knobloch P. Erdos • R. M. Schoen B.S. Pavlov • R. T. Rockafellar Wu-Chung Hsiang • K. K. Uhlenbeck • B. E. J. Dahlberg A. B. Kur~anskil B. Mazur 5. Topology G. Kasparov J. Zabczyk • M. Rabin G. Pisier • S. Shelah F. R. Cohen 15. Numerical W. H. Fleming • M. H. Freedman 10. Probability and methods P. D. Lax • J. I. Shaneson mathematical B. Engquist R. D. MacPherson • R. L. Cohen statistics • G. H. Golub D. Ruelle • S. P. Kerkhoff • D. R. Brillinger • M. J. D. Powell Yum-Tong Siu H. Torunczyk P. Malliavin • FengKang S. K. Donaldson S. Watanabe Ju. A. Kuznetsov 45-minute Addresses Wen-Hsuing Lin D. M. Chibisov R. Glowinski in Sections: 6. Algebraic geometry P. Mandl C. A. Micchelli 1. Mathematical logic A. Beilinson • H. Kesten 16. Combinatorics and foundations of s. Iitaka • D. W. Stroock and mathematical mathematics A. Ogus 11. Partial differential programming G. L. Cherlin • W. Fulton equations D. Foata R. A.
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