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Notices: Highlights Salt Lake City Meeting (August 5-8)- Page 761 Notices of the American Mathematical Society August 1987, Issue 257 Volume 34, Number 5, Pages 729-872 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 Notices was sent to the 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 meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary 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 departments of mathematics and from the headquarter's office of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be recejvedat 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 for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information. consult the meeting announcements and the list of organizers of special sessions. ABSTRACT MEETING # DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 836 August 5-8, 1987* Salt Lake City, Utah EXPIRED August 837 October 3D-November 1, Lincoln, Nebraska August 17 October 1987 838 November 14-15, 1987 Los Angeles, California August 18 October 839 January 6-9, 1988** Atlanta, Georgia October 8 January (94th Annual Meeting) March 18-19, 1988 East Lansing, Michigan August 8-12, 1988 Providence, Rhode Island (AMS Centennial Celebration) January 11-14, 1989 Phoenix, Arizona (95th Annual Meeting) January 17-20, 1990 Louisville, Kentucky (96th Annual Meeting) * Preregistration/Housing deadline was June 1. ** Preregistration/Housing deadline is November 6. 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