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Notices of the American Mathematical Society April 1984, Issue 233 Volume 31, Number 3, Pages 241-360 Providence, Rhode Island USA ISSN 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 which 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 that 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# DATE PLACE ABSTRACT DEADLINE ISSUE 812 june 29-july 1, 1984 Plymouth, New Hampshire APRIL 23, 1984 june 813 August 16-19, 1984 Eugene, Oregon JUNE 5, 1984 August (88th Summer Meeting) 814 November 2-3, 1984 Minneapolis, Minnesota 815 November 9-10, 1984 San Diego, California 816 january 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) March 22-23, 1985 Chicago, Illinois April 12-13, 1985 Tucson, Arizona january 7-11, 1986 New Orleans, Louisiana (92nd Annual Meeting) january 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) january 6-1 0, 1988 Atlanta, Georgia (94th Annual Meeting) August 8-12, 1988 Providence, Rhode Island (AMS Centennial Celebration) DEADLINES: Advertising Uune 1984 Issue) May 3, 1984 (August 1984 Issue) june 20, 1984 News/Special Meetings Uune 1984 Issue) April 16, 1984 (August 1984 Issue) june 4, 1984 Other Events Sponsored by the Society May 28, 1984, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, DNA Sequence Analysis, New York, New York. This issue, page 296. june 1 0-August 18, 1984, joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. july 8-21, 1984, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Nonlinear Systems of PDE in Applied Mathematics, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. july 16-August 3, 1984, AMS Summer Research Institute on Geometric Measure Theory and the Calculus of Variations, Arcata, California. August 14-15, 1984, AMS Short Course: Environmental and Natural Resource Mathematics, Eugene, Oregon. This issue, page 300. Subscribers' changes of address should be reported well in advance to avoid disruption of service: address labels are prepared four to six -ks 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 Straet, 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 straet address, and the other information in brackets above, is a technical requirement of the U. S. Postal Service. The straet 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 postal 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 31, Number 3, April 1984 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Paul F. Baum, Ralph P. Boas 242 National Science Foundation Budget Request for Raymond L. johnson, Mary Ellen Rudin Bertram Walsh, Daniel Zelinsky FY 1985 Everett Pitcher (Chairman) 260 New Goals for Mathematics Sciences Education MANAGING EDITOR Lincoln K. Durst 271 The Supply of Mathematical Researchers in the ASSOCIATE EDITORS 1990s Hans Samelson, Queries 278 News and Announcements Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles 282 Queries SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscription prices for Volume 31 (1984) 283 Letters to the Editor are $50 list; $25 member. (The subscrip· tion price for members is included in the 286 NSF News & Reports annual dues.) A late charge of 10% of the subscription price will be imposed upon 290 1984 AMS Elections (Nominations by Petition) orders received from nonmembers after 292 New Rules Concerning Abstracts january 1 of the subscription year. Sub­ scribers outside the United States and 293 Future Meetings of the Society India must pay a postage surcharge of $5; subscribers in India must pay a Plymouth, june 29-ju/y 1, 293; Symposium postage surcharge of $15. Subscrip· on Mathematical Biology, New York, May 28, tions and orders for AMS publications 296; Eugene, August 16-19, 297; Synopses, should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, Short Course on Environmental and Natural Annex Station, Providence, Rl 02901. Resource Mathematics, 317; Call for Topics, All orders must be prepaid. 321; Invited Speakers and Special Sessions, ORDERS FOR AMS BOOKS AND 324 INQUIRIES ABOUT SALES, SUBSCRIP· TIONS, AND DUES may be made by 326 New AMS Publications calling Carol-Ann Blackwood at 330 Miscellaneous 800-556-7774 (toll free in U.S.) between 8:00 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. eastern time, Personal Items, 330; Deaths, 330; New Monday through Friday. Doctorates (Supplement), 331 INFORMATION ABOUT ADVERTISING 333 Special Meetings in the Notices may be obtained from Wahlene Siconio at 401·272·9500. 339 AMS Reports & Communications CORRESPONDENCE, including changes Recent Appointments, 339; Officers of the of address should be sent to American Society, 1983 and 1984, 340 Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940. 341 Advertisements Second class postage paid at 356 Registration Forms Providence, Rl, and additional mailing offices. Copyright© 1984 by the Summer List of Applicants, 356, 357; American Mathematical Society. Eugene Preregistration and Housing Printed in the United States of America. Reservation Form, 359, 360 National Science Foundation Budget Request for Fiscal 1985 The Administration's budget request for the Education. These pieces, prepared by members fiscal year 1985 was sent to Congress on February of the Foundation's staff, serve to describe the 1, 1984. This report examines the budget requests projects for which Congressional funding is sought for the National Science Foundation. and to place in context the work supported by the As in recent years, the report concentrates on Foundation. NSF support for research in the mathematical Tables I and IT, for the second year in a sciences and on the fate of support for science row, suggest that the prospects for support of education within the Foundation. These reports mathematical research by the Foundation look have appeared annually for more than a decade­ better than they have for some time. Before 1982 the most recent one was published in the April less than 3% of the NSF budget was devoted to 1983 issue of the Notices, pages 280 to 289. support of research in the mathematical sciences. This year there are four components to the The FY1985 budget request amounts to 3.75% of report: the total NSF budget request. First is the customary set of tables depicting the For most of the past decade, the Mathematical part of the entire NSF budget request allocated to Sciences share of the MPS pie has been between support of the mathematical sciences (Table I), the 11% and 12%. In the FY1985 request, it has fraction of the budget request for the Directorate finally passed 12%. Because the increase in this of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) fraction (half of a percent) is so much smaller which is devoted to the mathematical sciences than the expected increase for the mathematical (Table IT), and the effects of inflation on the NSF sciences from FY1984 to FY1985 (which is over budget over the past decade (Table Ill). twenty percent), it follows that the other physical The other parts consist of excerpts from the sciences may all expect to do about as well as submissions to Congress made by the three mathematics next year, at least on the basis of groups at the Foundation concerned with the percentage growth
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