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Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences Section OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Richard M. Schoen Awarded 1989 Bacher Prize page 225 Everybody Counts Summary page 227 MARCH 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 3 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings which have been approved prior to Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices the date this issue of Notices was sent to the press. The summer which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be sub­ and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Associ­ mitted on special forms which are available in many departments of ation of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meet­ mathematics and from the headquarters office of the Society. Ab­ ing dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this stracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been as­ at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on signed. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special have appeared in earlier issues. sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are pub­ additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the lished in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American list of organizers of special sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 848 • April 15-16, 1989 Worcester, Massachusetts Expired March 849 • May 19-20, 1989 Chicago, Illinois Expired April 850 • August 7-10, 1989 Boulder, Coloradot May 16 JulyI August (92nd Summer Meeting) 851 • October 21-22, 1989 Hoboken, New Jersey August 16 October 852 • October 27-28, 1989 Muncie, Indiana August 16 October 853 November 18-19, 1989 Los Angeles, California August 16 November** 854 January 17-20, 1990 Louisville, Kentucky October 11 December (96th Annual Meeting) March 16-17, 1990 Manhattan, Kansas August 8-11 , 1990 Columbus, Ohio (93rd Summer Meeting) November 2-3, 1990 Denton, Texas January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California (97th Annual Meeting) August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine (94th Summer Meeting) January 8-11 , 1992 Baltimore, Maryland (98th Annual Meeting) June 29-July 1 , 1992 Cambridge, England (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) January 5-8, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (100th Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 294 for listing of special sessions. •• Please note a change in this date making it later than previously published. t Preregistration/Housing deadline is June 1 Conferences May 26- May 30, 1989: AMS Pure Mathematics Symposium July 10-30, 1989: AMS Summer Research Institute on on Complex Geometry and Lie Theory, Sundance Resort, Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry, Sundance, Utah University of California, Santa Cruz, California May 29- June 9, 1989: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on the August 6- 7, 1989: AMS Short Course on Cryptology and Mathematics of Random Media, Virginia Polytechnic Computational Number Theory, Boulder, Colorado Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia August 7, 1989: AMS-SIAM-SMB Symposium on Some June 3- August 5, 1989: Joint Summer Research Mathematical Questions in Biology, Sex Allocations and Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Humboldt Sex Change: Experiments and Models, University of State University, Arcata, California Toronto. Deadlines May/June Issue July I August Issue September Issue October Issue Classified Ads* April 21, 1989 June 12, 1989 July 31, 1989 Aug 28, 1989 News Items April 27, 1989 June 12, 1989 Aug 3, 1989 Aug 29, 1989 Meeting Announcements•• April 20, 1989 June 5, 1989 July 27, 1989 Aug 22, 1989 • 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. OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ARTICLES DEPARTMENTS 221 Marshall Harvey Stone (1903-1989) George W. Mackey 219 Letters to the Editor Marshall H. Stone's contributions to twentieth century mathematics are 266 News and Announcements highlighted. 275 Funding Information for the 225 Richard M. Schoen Awarded 1989 Bocher Prize Mathematical Sciences Richard M. Schoen is cited for his work on the application of partial 277 1989 AMS Elections differential equations to differential geometry. (Nominations by Petition) 279 Meetings and Conferences 227 Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of of the AMS (Listing) Mathematics Education Summary 303 Mathematical Sciences The official National Research Council summary of the report outlines Meetings and Conferences the bold agenda for change in mathematics education over the next two decades. 317 New AMS Publications 321 AMS Reports and 237 Mathematics: A Challenge for Business, Government, and Academia Communications The text of the talk given by Vice Admiral William 0. Studeman at the Recent Appointments, 321 Phoenix, Arizona meeting is presented. Reports of Past Meetings, 321 326 Miscellaneous FEATURE COLUMNS Personal Items, 326 Deaths, 326 241 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise 327 New Members of the AMS Herman and Mark This month's column features two articles by Gene 333 Classified Advertising Sands which address the problems associated with establishing a computational environment for work in mathematics. Barwise's 345 Forms commentary follows. 257 Inside the AMS: Elections Robert M. Fossum Robert Fossum's report highlights the recommendations presented to the Council at the Phoenix, Arizona meeting by the Committee on Election Scheduling. Allyn Jackson's article about the Council meeting follows. 263 Washington Outlook Kenneth M. Hoffman In this month's column, Hans J. Oser reports on the Washington press conference, during which Everybody Counts, A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education, was released to the public. MARCH 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 3 217 AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Inside the AMS Since Notices has taken on its new format, the Managing Editor has been responsible for the various commentaries which have appeared in this sec­ tion, referred to in-house as "page 2." The Managing Editor then was James EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Robert J. Blattner, Michael G. Crandall A. Voytuk, who in January took a new position as Director of Project MS Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) 2000 at the National Academy of Sciences. For the next few issues, I will be Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis providing commentaries for "page 2." Nancy K. Stanton, Robert E. L. Turner While thinking about the various items I might bring to the attention of the INTERIM MANAGING EDITOR readers of Notices, I kept returning to a fact that has made a very big impres­ James W. Maxwell sion on me in the short time I have been working with the Society. I have been a member of the Society for many years and have served on some of the ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles more active Society committees; however, I had no perception of the breadth Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles of the Society's activities nor the scope of the operations of the Providence and Ann Arbor offices. Also, there is the "Washington presence of the Soci­ SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ety" through the activities of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and its Subscription prices for Volume 36 (1989) are Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. Most members are aware of the $108 list; $86 institutional member; $65 individual "Washington presence" but may not be familiar with the exact nature of the member. (The subscription price for members is included in the annual dues.) A late charge of Society's involvement in these activities. In sharing these early impressions 10% of the subscription price will be imposed with colleagues and the staff, it was clear that my experience as a member upon orders received from nonmembers after was not unique. January 1 of the subscription year. Add for post­ age: Surface delivery outside the United States To better acquaint members with the Society, the Notices column "Inside and lndia-$1 0; to lndia-$20; expedited deliv­ ery to destinations in North America-$15; else­ the AMS" will begin a series of articles about the operations and plans of where-$38. Subscriptions and orders for AMS the Society. Readers of Notices can expect to see articles giving an overview publications should be addressed to the Amer­ of the publication program as well as articles detailing some of the most ican Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, An­ important operations in the publication area. If you have ever wondered what nex Station, Providence, Rl 02901-9930. 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