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Notices of the American Mathematical Society AMS PRICES WILL INCREASE SEPTEMBER 1, 1981 CALL 800-556-7774 TO ORDER BOOKS z 0 WITH VISA OR MASTER CARDS (SEE PAGES 349 AND 352) -1 (1 IT1 '.Jl > 3: IT1 ;:;o 3: > -1 :I: '.Jl 0 (1 Notices of the American Mathematical Society < 2.. c: 3 (1) -~ z c: 3 r::1' ...(1) June 1981, Issue 210 ... Volume 28, Number 4, Pages 297-384 10 Providence, Rhode Island USA ...00 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 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 788 August 17-21, 1981 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania JUNE 1 August (85th Summer Meeting) 789 October 17-18, 1981 Amherst, Massachusetts AUGUST 20 October 790 November 6-7, 1981 Austin, Texas SEPTEMBER 10 November 791 November 13-14, 1981 Santa Barbara, California SEPTEMBER 14 November 792 January 1 3-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio OCTOBER 14 january (88th Annual Meeting) April 1 6-1 7, 1982 Madison, Wisconsin August 23-27, 1982 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (86th Summer Meeting) january 5-9, 1983 Denver, Colorado {89th Annual Meeting) 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 17, (October issue) August 27 News/Special Meetings: (August issue) june 1, (October issue) August 17 OTHER EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY june 29-july 11, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Fluid-Dynamical Problems in Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April issue, page 232 July 20-August 7, AMS Summer Institute on Singularities, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, April issue, page 232 August 15-16, AMS Short Course: Mathematics of Networks, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This issue, page 305 Subscribers' changes of address should be reported well in advance to avoid disruption of service: address labels are pre· pared four to six weeks in advance of the date of mailing. Requests for a change of address should always include the mem· ber 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 infor· mation which are essential for the AMS records. Suitable forms are published from time to time in the Notices (e.g. june 1980, page 378). The Society rents three post office boxes in Providence. All general correspondence should be addressed to the Society at Post Office Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940; dues payments and orders for Society publications (except for ElMS) should be addressed to Post Office Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, Rl 02901; all correspondence relating to preregistration for meetings or to Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences should be addressed to Post Office Box 6887, 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 ttie U.S. Postal Service. This 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 (• explained above) reliance on the postal service change·of·address forms is .liable to cause delays in processing such requests Jn the AMS office. Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 28, Number 4, june 1981 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 EDITOR FOR QUERIES Hans Samelson SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS Notices is published eight times a year (January, February, April, June, August, October, November, and 298 MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY December). Subscription for Vol. 28 (1981), $22.00 list, $11.00 member. Portland, Oregon, june 19, 298 The subscription price for members Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 15, 302 is included in ihe annual dues. Sub­ Amherst, Massachusetts, October 17, 321 scriptions and orders for AMS publi­ Invited Speakers, 320; Special Sessions, 320 cations should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, 324 1981 AMS ELECTIONS P. 0. Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, R.I. 02901. All orders 325 NSF BUDGET FOR 1982 must be prepaid. 332 QUERIES ADVERTISING & INQUIRIES 333 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS The Notices publishes situations 338 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR wanted and classified advertising, and display advertising for publishers 340 AMS RECIPROCITY AGREEMENTS and academic or scientific organiza­ tions. Requests for information: 345 SPECIAL MEETINGS Advertising: Virginia Biber 349 NEW AMS PUBLICATIONS Change of address or subscriptions: Rena Harty 353 MISCELLANEOUS To avoid interruption in service please Personal Items, 353; Deaths, 353 send address changes four to six weeks in advance. It is essential 354 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS to include the member code which appears on the address label with 358 AMS REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS all correspondence regarding Recent Appointments, 358; Reports of Meetings: subscriptions. Address correspondence Notre Dame, 358 to American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6248, Providence, Rl 02940. 359 AMS BOOK SALE Telephone 401·272-9500. 368 ADVERTISEMENTS Second class postage paid at 380 REGISTRATION FORMS Providence, Rl, and additional mailing offices. Copyright © 1981 by the 1981 Summer Applicants List, 380, 381; American Mathematical Society, Pittsburgh Preregistration and Housing Printed in the United States of America. Reservation Forms, 383, 384 Portland, June 19-20, 1981, Lewis and Clark College Program for the 787th Meeting The seven hundred eighty-seventh meeting of the discuss regional and state mathematics contests. There American Mathematical Society will be held at Lewis will be a aeries of talks concerning teaching ideas for and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, on Friday and lower division mathematics courses; the speakers will Saturday, June 19 and 20, 1981. This meeting will be Roland H. Lamberson, Richard Montgomery, Larry be held in conjunction with meetings of the Pacific Runyon, and Michael Sequeria. Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association Registration of America (MAA) and the Northwest Section of The meeting registration desk will be located in the the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Olin Building and will be open on Friday from 8:30 (SIAM). The MAA will have sessions on Friday and a.m. until noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. On Saturday, and the SIAM program is scheduled on Saturday the desk will be open from 8:30 a.m. until Saturday. 11:00 a.m. Registration fees will be S6 for members of Invited Addresses AMS, MAA, or SIAM, S8 for nonmembers, and S2 for By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour students and unemployed persons. Speakers for Far Western Sectional Meetings, there Registration for dormitory accommodations will be will be two invited one-hour addresses. The speakers, located in the lounge area of Juniper dormitory and times, and titles of their talks are as follows: the desk will be open from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Thursday evening. ANDREW MAJDA, University of California, Berkeley, 4:00 p.m. Friday, Nonlinear hyperbolic Information about restaurants, and suggestions for things to do and see in the Portland area, will be waves. available at the registration desk. HAROLD M. STARK University of California, San Diego, 11:00 a.m. Friday, The method of proof by Open House, Banquet, and Luneheon example in number theory. Those arriving on Thursday are cordially invited to Special Session an open house after 7:30 p.m. at the home of Gene and Marj Enneking of the Portland State University By invitation of the same committee, there will department of mathematics. Directions to their house be a special session on Number theory organized by may be obtained at the registration area in Juniper ROY W. RYDEN of Humboldt State University. The dormitory. The Enneking residence is located at 6845 speakers are Rodney T.
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