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Notices of the American Mathematical Society Norman Program (March 18-19)- Page 180 Notices of the American Mathematical Society February 1983, Issue 224 Volume 30, Number 2, Pages 137- 248 Providence, Rhode Island USA JSSN 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 whi·ch 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 tout 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 802 March 18-19, 1983 Norman, Oklahoma JANUARY 20, 1983 February 803 April14-15, 1983 New York, New York FEBRUARY 15, 1983 April 804 April 29-30, 1983 Salt Lake City, Utah FEBRUARY 21, 1983 April 805 August 8-12, 1983 Albany, New York MAY17,1983 August (87th Summer Meeting) 806 October 28-29, 1983 Fairfield, Connecticut 807 November 11-12, 1983 San Luis Obispo, California 808 November 11-12, 1983 · Evanston, Illinois 809 January 25-29, 1984 Louisville, Kentucky (90th Annual Meeting) April 6-7, 1984 Notre Dame, Indiana January 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) January 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising (April Issue) March 3, 1983 (June Issue) April 21, 1983 News/Special Meetings: (April Issue) February 14, 1983 (june Issue) April 5, 1983 Other Events Sponsored by the Society April12-13, 1983, AMS-SIAM Symposium on Inverse Problems, New York Statler Hotel, New York, New York. This issue, page 193. May 1983, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, Detroit, Michigan. This issue, page 198. June 5-August 13, 1983, AMS Summer Research Conferences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. January issue, page 74. June 27 -July 8, 1983, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Large-scale Computations in Fluid Mechanics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Lajolla, California. This issue, page 199. July 11-29, 1983, AMS Summer Research Institute on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications, University of California, Berkeley. This issue, page 199. August 6-7, 1983, AMS Short Course: Population biology, Albany, New York. 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 postaf 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 2, February 1983 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Paul F. Baum, Ralph P. Boas Raymond L. johnson, Mary Ellen Rudin Bertram Walsh, Daniel Zelinsky 138 Paul R. Garabedian Awarded 1983 Birkhoff Prize Everett Pitcher (Chairman) 140 Science Policy and Mathematics-A Current MANAGING EDITOR Perspective, Edward A. Knapp Lincoln K. Durst 145 News and Announcements ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hans Samelson, Queries 150 International Congress of Mathematicians Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles 157 AMS Trustees Honor Long-term Employees SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS 159 Queries Subscription for Vol. 30 (1983): 160 26th Annual AMS Survey (Second Report) $39 list, $20 member. The subscription price for members is included in the Employment of New Doctorates, Faculty annual dues. Subscriptions and orders Mobility, Enrollments, Class Size for AMS publications should be 166 Freshman Mathematics (Panel Discussion) addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, 172 Letters to the Editor Providence, Rl 02901. 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It is essential to include the 205 Special Meetings member code which appears on the address label with all correspondence 211 New AMS Publications regarding subscriptions. 214 Miscellaneous INFORMATION ABOUT ADVERTISING Personal Items, 214; Deaths, 214; Backlog, 215; in the· Notices may be obtained from Assistantships and Fellowships Wahlene Siconio at 401·272·9500. (Supplement), 217 CORRESPONDENCE, including changes 228 AMS Reports and Communications of address should be sent to American Recent Appointments, 228; Reports of Past Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6248, Meetings: Baton Rouge, 229; East Lansing, 229; Providence, Rl 02940. Monterey, 230; Denver, 231; Election Results Second class postage paid at of 1982, 231; Council for 1983, 231; Report Providence, Rl, and additional mailing from CAFTES, 232 offices. Copyright© 1983 by the 233 Advertisements American Mathematical Society. Printed in the United States of America. 247 Reservation Form (New York City) Paul R. Garabedian Awarded 1983 Birkhoff Prize The George David Birkhoff Prize is awarded Antman, David Gilbarg, chairman, and Werner every five years to a recipient selected, by a C. Rheinboldt. joint committee of the American Mathematical The material which follows consists of the Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied selection committee's citation, the remarks of Mathematics, for outstanding contributions to Professor Garabedian at the Prize Session in "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest Denver on the presentation of the award, a brief sense." The 1983 recipient is Paul R. Garabedian biography of Garabedian and an essay in which of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Peter Lax sketches Garabedian's contributions to of New York University. applied mathematics. The Birkhoff Prize Fund was originally created by the Birkhoff family in 1967. The award is Citation supplemented by an award from the Steele Prize Fund of the American Mathematical Society in The George David Birkhoff Prize for 1983 is the name of the Birkhoff Prize (the Steele Prize presented to Paul R. Garabedian for his important Fund was presented to the Society for prizes in contributions to partial differential equations, honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg to the mathematical analysis of problems of Osgood and William Caspar Graustein). In 1983 transonic flow and airfoil design by the method the award is $1500. of complexification, and to the development and Previous recipients of Birkhoff prizes are Jiirgen application of scientific computing to problems of K. Moser (1968), Fritz John (1973), James B. fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Serrin (1973), Garrett Birkhoff (1978), Mark Kac (1978) and Clifford A. Truesdell III (1978). The Birkhoff Prize for 1983 is awarded by the Response Council of the American Mathematical Society I am very grateful to have been awarded the and the Executive Committee of the Council of the Birkhoff Prize. It is an additional satisfaction Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, that the award is supplemented from the Steele on the recommendation of the joint AMS-SIAM Fund honoring G. D. Birkhoff, W. F. Osgood and Committee to Select the Winner of the Birkhoff W. C. Graustein. This is especially true because Prize for 1983, whose members are Stuart S.
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