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Fighting for Tenure the Jenny Harrison Case Opens Pandora's Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this issue insofar as is possible. Instructions for submission of abstracts can be found in the went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings with the Mathe­ January 1993 issue of the Notices on page 46. Abstracts of papers to be presented at matical Association of America. the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, earlier than that specified below. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 890 t March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky Expired March 891 t March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas Expired March 892 t April8-10, 1994 Brooklyn, New York Expired April 893 t June 16-18, 1994 Eugene, Oregon April4 May-June 894 • August 15-17, 1994 (96th Summer Meeting) Minneapolis, Minnesota May 17 July-August 895 • October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma August 3 October 896 • November 11-13, 1994 Richmond, Virginia August 3 October 897 • January 4-7, 1995 (101st Annual Meeting) San Francisco, California October 1 December March 4-5, 1995 Hartford, Connecticut March 17-18, 1995 Orlando, Florida March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois August 6-8, 1995 (97th Summer Meeting) Burlington, Vermont October 7-8, 1995 Boston, Massachusetts November 3-4, 1995 Kent, Ohio November 17-18, 1995 Greensboro, North Carolina January 1Q-13, 1996 (1 02nd Annual Meeting) Orlando, Florida March 22-23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa April 19-21, 1996 Baton Rouge, Louisiana November 1-2, 1996 Columbia, Missouri January 8-11, 1997 (103rd Annual Meeting) San Diego, California January 7-10, 1998 (104th Annual Meeting) Baltimore, Maryland *Please refer to page 239 for listing of special sessions. t Please refer to the Table of Contents for further information. Conferences June 7-11, 1994: AMS Symposium in Research Mathematics on Quantization and Nonlinear Wave Equations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 11-July 6, 1994: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. June 20-July 1, 1994: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics on Dynamical Systems and Probabilistic Methods for Nonlinear Waves, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California. Other Events Cosponsored by the Society May 5-8, 1994: MER Network Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. Deadlines May-June Issue July-August Issue September Issue October Issue Classified Ads* April 25, 1994 June 20, 1994 July 25, 1994 August 29, 1994 News Items April11, 1994 June 8, 1994 July 13, 1994 August 24, 1994 Meeting Announcements** April 18, 1994 June 8, 1994 July 13, 1994 August 24, 1994 • Please contact AMS Advertising Department for an Advertising Rate Card for display advertising deadlines. •• For material to appear in the Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences section. ICM-94 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: The deadline for abstracts for short communications to be presented at ICM-94, August 3-11, in Zurich is April15, 1994. Readers should be aware that the Second Announcement contains detailed instructions for the preparation of abstracts and a sample abstract; abstracts not in the proper form will not be accepted. Much of the Second Announcement (including instructions on the preparation of abstracts) will appear in the April 1994 isssue of the Notices. Copies of the Second Announcement are available by writing to: International Congress of Mathematicians, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich; telephone: +41-1-632-52-30; fax: +41-1-252-91-84; e-mail: icm94~math.ethz.ch. OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENTS ARTICLES 179 Letters to the Editor 203 News and Announcements 182 Martin D. Kruskal Receives National Medal of Science 207 Funding Information for the Martin Kruskal of Rutgers University has received the National Medal of Mathematical Sciences Science, the nation's highest distinction for scientific achievement. In this 209 Meetings and Conferences of article, Mark Ablowitz, John Greene, and Harvey Segur pay tribute to the AMS Kruskal's accomplishments. Lexington, KY March 18-19, 209 185 Update on Fermat's Last Theorem Manhattan, KS In early December, Andrew Wiles acknowledged what many in touch with March 25-26, 220 the rumor mill already knew: There is a gap in his proof of Fermat's Last Brooklyn, NY Theorem. Allyn Jackson provides some background on the general nature of April 8-10, 233 the gap and describes some of the public attention Wiles's work has drawn. Eugene, OR June 16-18, 235 Minneapolis Mathfest, 237 187 Fighting for Tenure Invited Addresses, Special The Jenny Harrison Case Opens a Pandora's Box Sessions, and Contributed Papers, In July of last year, Jenny Harrison was appointed to the Berkeley 239 mathematics department as a full professor, after a long legal battle with the 1994 Summer Seminar in Applied university. Allyn Jackson provides a history of the case and a look at some Mathematics, 241 of the broader issues the case raises. 243 Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences FEATURE COLUMNS 253 New Publications Offered by the AMS 195 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin 258 Miscellaneous Personal Items, 258 Three software reviews make up this month's column. John Crow Deaths, 258 concentrates on Maple in the first of a two-installment comparison of Maple and Macsyma computer algebra systems. Next, Herb Holden reports on 259 Classified Advertising X(PLORE). Finally, Marvin Margolis takes a look at the mathematical 267 Forms graphics system MG. 202 Inside the AMS During the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Cincinnati, the AMS Council passed a strongly worded resolution about recent doctorates and the job market. The resolution urges departments to offer new doctorates positions of at least two years duration, and denounces the hiring of Ph.D.s in part-time positions at substandard salaries as a way for institutions to ease financial pressures. MARCH 1994, VOLUME 41, NUMBER 3 177 From the Executive Director ... N9.r•cEs THE NEW NOTICES AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY The Notices of the AMS is the most widely distributed publication commu­ nicating about mathematics, mathematicians, and the mathematical profession. 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