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page 1349 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences Thla calandar 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, insofar as is possible. and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Associ Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in ation of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meet many departments of mathematics and from the headquarters office ing dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been as must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, signed. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meet below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will ing. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for pre have appeared in earlier issues. sentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that Abatracta of papara presented at a meeting of the Society are pub specified below. For additional information, consult the meeting an lished in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American nouncements and the list of organizers of special sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 863 January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California Expired December (97th Annual Meeting) 864 tt March 15-16, 1991 South Bend, Indiana January 3 March 865 • March 22-23,1991 Tampa, Florida January 3 March 866 • June 13-15, 1991 Portland, Oregon March 26 May/June 867 • August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine May 29 July I August (94th Summer Meeting) 868 • October 12-13, 1991 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 1 October 869 • October 25-26, 1991 Fargo, North Dakota August 1 October 870 • November 9-11, 1991 Santa Barbara, California August 1 October 871 • January 8-11, 1992 Baltimore, Maryland October 2 December (98th Annual Meeting) March 13-14, 1992 Tuscaloosa, Alabama tt March 20-21, 1992 Springfield, Missouri June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) August 15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) January 12-15, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (100th Annual Meeting) January 10-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (102nd Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 1443 for listing of Special Sessions. t Preregistration/Housing deadline was November 16 tt These dates are earlier than previously published. Conferences January 14-15, 1991; AMS Short Course on Probabilistic July 7-26, 1991: AMS Summer Research Institute on Combinatorics and Its Applications, San Francisco, Algebraic Groups and their Generalizations, University California. of Pennsylvania, University Park, Pennsylvania. June 22-August 2, 1991: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Events Cosponsored by the Society February 14-20, 1991: Section A (Mathematics) Sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Deadlines February Issue March Issue April Issue MayjJune Issue Classified Ads* January 10, 1991 January 31, 1991 February 28, 1991 April 25, 1991 News Items January 2, 1991 January 22, 1991 February 21, 1991 April 15, 1991 Meeting Announcements .. January 7, 1991 January 24, 1991 February 25, 1991 April 15, 1991 • 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 DEPARTMENTS ANNOUNCEMENT 1347 Letters to the Editor 1353 Forum 1347 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification 1372 News and Announcements Classification, prepared The adoption of the revised Mathematics Subject 1376 Funding Information for the is announced in cooperation with the editors of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, Mathematical Sciences by the editors of Mathematical Reviews. 1377 1991 AMS Elections 1381 Meetings and Conferences of the ARTICLES AMS San Francisco, CA 1349 The Mathematics Job Market Are New Ph.D.s Having Trouble Getting January 16-19, 1381 Jobs? AAAS Annual Meeting, 1441 Invited Speakers, 1443 In this article, the confusion surrounding the current academic employment Joint Summer Research situation in mathematics is considered. Allyn Jackson interviewed several Conferences in the Mathematical recent Ph.D. recipients and reports on their experiences and perceptions. Sciences, 1447 1991 Summer Research Institute, FEATURE COLUMNS 1449 1451 Mathematical Sciences Meetings 1356 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise and Conferences This month's column includes a summary listing of the programs that have 1459 New AMS Publications been reviewed in this column; an article by Victoria Bush who is worried 1464 AMS Reports and about the impact of reviews of programs, such as Mathematics and Maple; Communications a copy of the guidelines the editor has been using in this column; and a Recent Appointments, 1464 report on a computer information survey by J. I. Hall. Reports of Past Meetings, 1464 1466 Miscellaneous 1368 Inside the AMS Personal Items, 1466 This month's column contains an overview of the activities of the AMS Deaths, 1466 Editorial Boards Committee by the chair of that Committee, Haynes Miller; Visiting Mathematicians, 1466 information on the Society's program of sponsored membership; and an 1467 New Members of the AMS update one-MATH. 1468 Classified Advertising 1370 Washington Outlook 1523 Forms Lisa A. Thompson examines the Fiscal Year 1991 budget appropriations package and its impact on the National Science Foundation. DECEMBER 1990, VOLUME 37, NUMBER 10 1345 From the Executive Director __ _ HORIZONTAL BARRIERS The Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) recently issued a new AMERICAN MATIIEMATICAI. SOCIETY book "On the Shoulders of Giants, New Approaches to Numeracy." It is an attractively presented book with a most interesting theme and compelling essays. The theme of this work, curriculum reform, has a parallel with im plications for professional reform. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Basically the theme is that there is a diversity of ideas and structures run Robert J. Blattner (Forum Editor) ning throughout mathematics. One can identify various strands which per Michael G. Crandall Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) mit development from the informal intuition of early childhood, through Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis school, into college (including scientific and mathematical research) and on Nancy K. Stanton into daily experiences. Mathematics curricula should provide parallel strands Robert E. L. Turner (Letters Editor) based in appropriate childhood experiences that can be carried vertically MANAGING EDITOR through school and college and into the mathematical futures of all students. Donovan H. VanOsdol In this way different aspects of mathematical experiences will attract students ASSOCIATE EDITORS with different interests and talents. Ronald L. 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