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Notices of the American Mathematical Society Society c :s ~ 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 American 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 meet­ ings 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 meeting. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many depart­ ments 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 abstracts submitted for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information consult the meet· ing announcement and the Jist of organizers of special sessions. MEETING ABSTRACT NUMBER DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 779 August 18-22, 1980 Ann Arbor, Michigan JUNE 3 August (84th Summer Meeting) 780 October 17-18, 1980 Storrs, Connecticut AUGUST 21 October 781 October 31-November 1, 1980 Kenosha, Wisconsin AUGUST 25 } 782 November 14-15, 1980 Knoxville, Tennessee SEPTEMBER 19 November 783 January 7-11, 1981 San Francisco, California OCTOBER 22 January {87th Annual Meeting) 1981 May 15-16, 1981 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania January 13-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio {88th Annual Meeting) Notices DEADLINES ISSUE NEWS ADVERTISING August 1980 June 3 June 18 October 1980 August 25 September 3 Deadlines for announcements intended for the Special Meetings section are the same as for News. Other Events Sponsored by the Society 1980 ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARS June 15-27 AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Mathematical Aspects of Feb. Issue, p. 158 Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah July 14-August 2 AMS Summer Institute on Operator Algebras and April Issue, p. 261 Applications, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada August 16-17 AMS Short Course: Computer Algebra-Symbolic This Issue, p. 321 Mathematical Computation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 27, Number 4, June 1980 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Ed Dubinsky, Richard j. Griego, Robion C. Kirby, Arthur P. Mattuck, Susan Montgomery, Barbara L. Osofsky, Everett Pitcher (Chairman) MANAGING EDITOR Lincoln K. Durst 314 MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY Ellensburg, Washington, june 20, 314 ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR QUERIES Hans Samelson Ann Arbor, August 18, 318 Storrs, Connecticut, October 17, 338 SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 31, 339 Notices is published eight times a Invited Speakers, 316; Special Sessions, 316 year (January, February, April, june, August, October, November, and 340 1980 AMS ELECTIONS December). Subscription for Vol. 27 (1980), $22.00 list, $11.00 member. 340 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The subscription price for members 348 QUERIES is included in the annual dues. Sub· scriptions and orders for AMS publi· 350 CEEP PANEL DISCUSSION: Moving from cations should be addressed to the Academic to Nonacademic Employment American Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, 354 CEEP CASE STUDIES: Some Mathematicians with Providence, R.I. 02901. All orders Nonacademic Employment must be prepaid. 356 DIRECTORY OF WOMEN ADVERTISING & INQUIRIES IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES The Notices publishes situations wanted and classified advertising, 358 AMS RECIPROCITY AGREEMENTS and display advertising for publishers 362 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS and academic or scientific organiza· tions. Requests for information: 366 SPECIAL MEETINGS Advertising: Virginia Biber Change of address or subscriptions: 371 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS Rena Harty 374 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS To avoid interruption in service please send address changes four to six 377 MISCELLANEOUS weeks in advance. It is essential Personal Items, 377; Deaths, 377; to include the member code which appears on the address label with Change of Address, 378 all correspondence regarding 379 AMS REPORTS & COMMUNICATIONS subscriptions. Address correspondence to American Mathematical Society, Recent Appointments, 379; Reports of P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940. Meetings: Boulder, 379; Bloomington, 379, Telephone 401·272·9500. (Council, 380); Philadelphia, 381 Second class postage paid at 383 ADVERTISEMENTS Providence, Rl, and additional mailing offices. U.S. Postal Service 390 REGISTRATION FORMS Publication No. 398520. 1980 Summer Applicants List, 390; Copyright © 1980 by the American Mathematical Society, Ann Arbor Preregistration, Housing, and Short Printed in the United States of America. Course Reservation Forms, 391, 392 Ellensburg, June 20-21, 1980, Central Washington University Program for the 778th Meeting The seven hundred seventy-eighth meeting of SIAM; $5 for nonmembers; and $1 for students and the American Mathematical Society will be held at unemployed persons. Cent~al Washingto~ University (CWU) in Ellensburg, Washmgton, on Fnday and Saturday, june 20-21 Accommodations 1980. The meeting will be held in conjunction ~ith Dormitory lodging and meal package plans are sectional meetings of the Mathematical Association available through the Conference Center, Central of America (MAA) and the Society for Industrial Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 98926, and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). All sessions will (Telephone 509-963-1141 ), and are as follows: take place in Lind Hall, which is located on East Pia,, A at $26.80 per person includes lodging 8th at Chestnut. june 19; breakfast, lunch and lodging june 20; Invited Addresses and breakfast June 21. Plan Bat $14.60 per person includes lunch and By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour lodging June 20, and breakfast June 21. S?eakers for Far Western Sectional Meetings, an in­ These rates arc for double occupancy; for single occu­ vtted one-hour address will be given by DAVID G. pancy add $3.00 per person per night. The rooms are CANTOR of the University of California, Los college dormitory rooms, clean and comfortable but Angeles. The title of his talk is On some applications not luxurious. Each room has two single beds, ~ tele­ of transfinite diameter to number theory. There will phone, ~ut no television or private bath; all linens al_so be an hour address at the banquet Friday eve­ are provtded. The meals are served cafeteria style nmg sponsored jointly by the AMS and MAA. The according to the following schedule: breakfast 7:00- speaker will be HUGH BURKHARDT, Shell Centre 8:00 a.m.; lunch 12:00-1 :00 p.m. Individuals ·inter­ for Mathematics Education, Nottingham, England, ested in these package plans should contact Mrs. and the title of his talk is England's experience with Everell Purcell at the CWU Conference Center for problem solving curricula: how it has affected the further details and reservation forms. The deadline way we teach mathematics. for return of the completed forms is June 10. There will be sessions for contributed ten-minute The following motels are located in Ellensburg papers. Late papers will be accepted for presentation Washington, zip code 98926. The Regalodge and ' at the meeting, but will not appear in the printed Thunderbird Motel are located approximately 1/2 program. mile from Campus and are the nearest. Rates do The MAA speakers and their titles are: DONALD not include the tax and are subject to change by W. BUSHAW, Washington State University, Minimal June. Participants should make reservations directly competencies, maximal confusion, and mean people; with the motel. LARRY RUNYON, Shoreline Community College, Harold's Magic Key Inn, 601.North Water Cold calculating conservation; and ALFRED B. WILLCOX, Executive Director of the MAA Mathe­ Telephone: 509-925-4141 matics: Where are we going? What mathe~atics Single $19-20 3 Doubles $42 educators can do about it. The MAA program will Double 24-25 2 Bedroom/kitchen 42 emphasize mathematics education and will include a Double/twin 27 panel discussion titled Mathematical services provided Holiday Inn, 1700 Canyon Road for our students. The moderator will be HOWARD Telephone: 509-925-9801 E. ZINK and the participants will be VERNON R. Single $29.00 Double 33.50 HOOD, NICKOLA NICKOLOFF, THEODORE Regalodge, 6th and Water WHITE and EDWARD B. WRIGHT. Telephone: 509-925-3116 The SIAM program will sponsor a session on Single $16.00 Double/double $22.50 advances in optimization theory with emphasis on Single (2) 21.50 Double/double(4) 26.50 computational methods in optimization. There will Thunderbird Motel, West 8th be ab_out six forty-minute talks scheduled on Saturday Telephone: 509-962-9856 mornmg and afternoon. Further information can be Single $20-22 Double/double $27-32 obtained from Alan Gibbs, Battelle Northwest Mathe­ Single (2) 25 2 Queens 29-39 matics Building, Room 1103, P. 0. Box 999, Rich­ Waits Motel, 205 West 6th land, Washington 99352. Telephone: 509-962-9801 Single $16.00 Double (2) ~19.50 Registration Double 18.50 Double/double 23.00 The registration desk for the meeting will be A KOA campground is located three miles west located in Lind Hall, and will be open from 10:30 of campus: a.m. to noon and 1 :00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, KOA Kampground, West Ellensburg Interchange and 8:30a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Registra­ Ellensburg, WA 98926 tion fees will be $3 for members of AMS, MAA, or Telephone: 509-925-9319 314 Participants not reserving university housing with Daniels Drive in Grasslands subdivision.
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