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OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 16, NUMBER 4 ISSUE NO. 114 JUNE, 1969 OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Edited by Everett Pitcher and Gordon L. Walker CONTENTS MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings • • . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • 610 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETING • . • • • • • . • • • • • . • • • • • . • 611 THOUGHTS ON GRADUATE EDUCATION AND THE DRAFT. • • • . • • • • • • • • • 617 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS OF PAPERS FOR AMS JOURNALS •••••••.. 621 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • . 624 PERSONAL ITEMS • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • • • • . • 625 REFERENDUM (A Report to the Membership) • • • • • • • . • • . • • • . • • . • . • 627 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS •.••••..••••••••••••..••••••••.•••.. 628 MEMORANDA TO MEMBERS Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society . • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • 631 Back Issues of the Transactions • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • 631 Abstracts for 1970 Annual Meeting • • . • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • . • • • • • . • 631 Policy on Reprints •••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 631 Mathematical Offprint Service • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • 632 ACTIVITIES OF OTHER ASSOCIATIONS • • . • • • • • • • . • • • • • . • • . • • • • • . 633 NEWS ITEMS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ....................... 632, 633, 634 ABSTRACTS OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS •..••••••.•.••••••••••.•. 640 ERRATA •••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•• 702 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 711 RESERVATION FORM •••••••••••••••..•••••••••••.••••••••••. 712 MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings NOTE: This Calendar lists all of the meetings which have been approved by the Council up to the date at which this issue of the cJ{oticei) 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 the meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Meet· Deadline ing Date Place for No. Abstracts* 667 August 25-29, 1969 (74th Summer Meeting) Eugene, Oregon July 1, 1969 668 October 25, 1969 Cambridge, Massachusetts Sept. 9, 19o9 669 November 21-22, 1969 Baton Rouge, Louisiana Oct. 8, 1969 670 November 22, 1969 Claremont, California Oct. 8, 1969 671 November29, 1969 Ann Arbor, Michigan Oct. 8, 1969 672 January 22-26, 1970 (76th Annual Meeting) Miami, Florida Nov. 6, 1969 August 24-28, 1970 (75th Summer Meeting) Laramie, Wyoming January 21-25, 1971 (77th Annual Meeting) Atlantic City, New Jersey *The abstracts of papers to be presented in person at the meetings must be received in the Head quarters Offices of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before these deadlines. The dead lines also apply to news items. The next two deadlines for by-title abstracts will be June 24 and September 2, 1969. OTHER EVENTS December 1969 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology Boston, Massachusetts The cJfoticti) of the American Mathematical Society is published by the Society in January, February, April, June, August, October, November and December. Price per annual volume is $10.00. Price per copy $3.00. Special price for copies sold at registration desks of meetings of the Society, $1.00 per copy. Subscriptions, orders for back numbers (back issues of the last two years only are available) and inquiries should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rhode Island 02904. Second-class postage paid at Providence, Rhode Island, and additional mailing offices. Copyright©, 1969 by the American Mathematical Society Printed in the Un;ted States of America 610 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETINGS The Seventy-Fourth Summer Meeting University of Oregon August 26-29, 1969 The seventy-fourth summer meet fessor Paul F. Baum of Brown University ing of the American Mathematical Society at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, August 29. The will be held at the University of Oregon, title of his talk is "Vector fields and Eugene, Oregon, from Tuesday, August 26, Gauss-Bonnet." All three lectures will be through Friday, August 29, 1969. All ses given in the Ballroom of the Erb Memorial sions of the meeting will be held on the Union. campus of the university. The times listed There will be several sessions for below for the events of the meeting are contributed ten-minute papers. These ses PACIFIC DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME sions are scheduled at 10:50 a.m. on Wed throughout. nesday, Thursday, and Friday, and at 2:45 There will be two sets of Collo p.m. on Friday. Abstracts of contributed quium Lectures. Professor Raoul Bott of papers should be sent to the American Harvard University will present four lec Mathematical Society, P .0. Box 6248, tures entitled "On the periodicity theorem Providence, Rhode Island 02904 so as to of the classical groups and its applica arrive prior to the July 1 deadline. Ab tions." These addresses will be given on stract blanks can be obtained from the Tuesday, August 26, at 1:30 p.m. and on same address. There will be no limit on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 8:30 the number of papers accepted for this a.m. The other Colloquium Lecturer will meeting. No provisions will be made for be Professor Harish-Chandra of the In late papers. stitute of Advanced Study. His topic will be This meeting will be held in conjunc "Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie tion with meetings of the MathematicalAs groups." Professor Harish-Chandra' s four sociation of America, the Society for In lectures will be given on Tuesday, August dustrial and Applied Mathematics, Pi Mu 26, at 2:45 p.m. and on Wednesday, Thurs Epsilon, and Mu Alpha Theta. The Mathe day, and Friday at 9:40a.m. The first two matical Association of America will meet addresses of each series will be presented from Monday through Wednesday. The As in the Ballroom of the Erb Memorial sociation will present Professor Errett Union; the remaining Colloquium Lec Bishop of the University of California, San tures will be given in Room 150 of the Sci Diego, as the Earle Raymond Hedrick Lec ence Building. turer. The topic of Professor Bishop's lec By invitation of the Committee to tures is "The constructive point of view." Select Hour Speakers for Annual and Sum The Hedrick Lectures will be given on Mon mer Meetings, there will be three one day, August 25, at 9:15a.m. and 1:30p.m. hour addresses. Professor Robion C.Kirby and on Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. The Society of the University of California, Los An for Industrial and Applied Mathematics geles, will speak on Thursday, August 28, will meet on Wednesday. The SIAM pro at 1:30 p.m. The title of his lecture is gram will include the von Neumann Lec "On the existence and uniqueness of trian ture, which will be given at 8:00 p.m. on gulations of manifolds." Professor Murray Wednesday by Professor George Carrier Gerstenhaber of the University of Pennsyl of Harvard University. The title of his ad vania will present a lecture entitled" Alge dress will be "Singular perturbation theory braic deformation theory" at 2:45 p.m. on in geophysics." Pi Mu Epsilon and Mu Thursday, August 28. The last invited ad Alpha Theta will meet concurrently with dress at the meeting will be given by Pro- the Society and the Association. 611 On Thursday, August 28, at8:00 p.m. EXHIBITS in the Ballroom, there will be a special Book exhibits and exhibits of educa panel on The Use of Hard-Won Informa tional media will be displayed in Rooms tion and Insight. This is a review of the 108-113 on the first floor of the ErbMem National Academy of Sciences--National orial Union on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Academy of Engineering survey of Scien Thursday. tific and Technical Communication (SAT COM). The discussion will be on the re BOOK SALES cently published report of the Academy's Joint Committee on Scientific and Techni There will not be a book sale at cal Communication and will be led by this meeting. Dean F. J. Weyl and other panel members, who are yet to be selected. DORMITORY HOUSING Dormitory rooms will be available COUNCIL AND BUSINESS MEETINGS in both the University Residence Halls and The Council of the Society will meet in the College Inn, a private dormitory. on Tuesday, August 26, at 5:00p.m. in Reservations for dormitory rooms should Room 101 of the Erb Memorial Union. The be made in advance, using the form pro Business Meeting of the Society will be held vided on page 712 of these cJ{oficeiJ. Al on Thursday, August 28, at 4:00p.m. in the though it is possible that rooms will be Ballroom of the Erb Memorial Union. available for persons who have not regis At the Business Meeting, the Coun tered in advance, this is not guaranteed. cil will recommend changes in the By The University Residence Halls Laws of the Society, consisting of the re (Carson, Earl, Hamilton, and Walton) are peal of Article III, Section 3, and Article modern and very convenient to the various XI, Section 3, together with related editor meeting rooms. Rates, including meals, ial changes effective December 31, 1971. are $11/day /person; children 2 through 11, The Sections require a Committee on half price; children 2 and under, no charge. Printing and Publishing and define its Rooms contain two single beds and have function. The amendment would eliminate sufficient floor space for a crib or a car the committee and would not shorten the bed. These cannot be supplied by the uni term of any Council member. versity, but participants may make ar rangements for rental of this equipment REGISTRATION by writing to Abbey Rents, 2750-11thAve nue West, Eugene, Oregon, or Valley The Registration Desk will be in the Rental Service, 886 Sixth Avenue West, Taylor Lounge of the Erb Memorial Union. Eugene, Oregon. Rooms do not have priv It will be open. on Sunday from 2:00p.m. to ate baths. Sleeping bags and pets are not 8:00 p.m.; on Monday from 8:00 a.m. to permitted in the Residence Halls. Linen, 5:00 p.m.; on Tuesday, Wednesday, and blankets, towels, and soap are furnished; Thursday, from 9:00a.m.