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June 18 and 19)- Page 341 Vl 0 ~ Mathematical Society 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 ABSTRACT NUMBER DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 796 August 23-26, 1982 Toronto, Ontario, Canada JUNE 7,1982 August (86th Summer Meeting) 797 October 30-31, 1982 College Park, Maryland AUGUST 27, 1982 October 798 November 12-13, 1982 Baton Rouge, Louisiana AUGUST 24, 1982 October 799 November 12-13, 1982 East Lansing, Michigan SEPTEMBER 13,1982 November 800 November 19-20, 1982 Monterey, California S~PTEMBER 20, 1982 November 801 january 5-9, 1983 Denver, Colorado OCTOBER 12, 1982 january (89th Annual Meeting) 1983 March 18-19, 1983 Norman, Oklahoma April 14-1 5, 1983 New York, New York August 8-12, 1983 Albany, New York (87th Summer Meeting) january 25-29, 1984 Louisville, Kentucky (90th Annual Meeting) january 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) january 21-25,1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising: (August issue) june 23 (October issue) September 9 News/Special Meetings: (August issue) june 7 (October issue) August 23 Other Events Sponsored by the Society june 28-July 16, 1982, AMS-ASL Summer Research Institute on Recursion Theory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. February issue, page 194. july 6-16, 1982, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Applications of Group Theory in Physics and Mathematical Physics, Univers1ty of Chicago. February issue, page 194. August 21-22, 1982, AMS Short Course: Statistical Data Analysis, Toronto, Canada. This issue, page 350. 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 a/ways 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). 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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 29, Number 4, june 1982 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Ralph P. Boas, Ed Dubinsky Richard j. Griego, Susan Montgomery Mary Ellen Rudin, Bertram Walsh Everett Pitcher (Chairman) MANAGING EDITOR Lincoln K. Durst ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hans Samelson, Queries Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles 322 Cryptology and the National Security Agency SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS Subscription for Vol. 29 (1982): 324 Letters to the Editor $36 list, $18 member. The subscription 326 Queries price for members is included in the annual dues. Subscriptions and orders 329 1982 AMS Elections for AMS publications should be 330 News and Announcements addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P. 0. 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Summer List of Applicants, 398, 399 Cryptology and the National Security Agency The National Security Agency has been moving to carry out a recommendation from the Public Cryptography Study Group to institute a system of voluntary prepublication review of certain material of interest to the Agency. (The PCSG report was reprinted in the October 1981 Notices, pages 517 to 526.) The position of the Council in anticipation of a request from the NSA was recorded in the February 1982 Notices on page 213. One aspect of the Council position was that the Notices should publicize, without endorsement, any request by NSA for individuals to participate in the review process. The following letter from the Director of the NSA to the Executive Director of the Society is an invitation to individuals voluntarily to submit papers relating to cryptography to the NSA for security review. National Security Agency Central Security Service Fort George G. Meade, Maryland 20755 Serial: N0463 22 Apr 1982 Dr. William J. LeVeque Executive Director American Mathematical Society P.O. Box 6248 Providence, Rhode Island 02940 Dear Dr. LeVeque: Two years ago at the suggestion of my predecessor Admiral Inman the American Council on Education sponsored, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, a Public Cryptography Study Group (PCSG) to address the concerns of the National Security Agency (NSA) that some information contained in published articles and monographs on cryptography could endanger the mission of NSA and the national security. The PCSG released a report in April 1981 that presents a detailed description of the concerns held by the involved parties. These concerns fall into two major categories-protection of national security and the issues that may affect private-sector research. The report concluded with a statement of recommended guidelines for a voluntary prepublication review program designed to assist authors/researchers and NSA in protecting against the inadvertent disclosure of cryptologic information that would be damaging to national security. NSA has accepted the PCSG guidelines and is moving toward their full implementation. Within this framework, we have developed internal procedures to facilitate timely review of research papers and provide a rapid response to authors. A central point has been established for receipt, staffing and response to authors submitting papers. As we have already received approximately 25 papers, we have been able to test the system. These papers have been reviewed and commented upon within our 30-day target. To date no national security concerns have been raised with any of the papers we have reviewed. If a paper does cause a national security concern, we will communicate directly with the author to make arrangements for a personal discussion of how the paper might be made acceptable to all concerned. We fully expect that we will be able to reach an accord with the author in such a case. However, if not, the author will have an appeal mechanism. Although not yet fully staffed, a five-member Public Cryptography Advisory Committee (PCAC) is being established to serve as the appeal mechanism for authors who choose to use it.