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Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this issue insofar as is possible. Instructions for submission of abstracts can be found in the went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings with the Mathe January 1993 issue of the Notices on page 46. Abstracts of papers to be presented at matical Association of America. the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the Island. on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, earlier than that specified below. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 893 June 16-18, 1994 Eugene, Oregon Expired May-June 894 August 15-17, 1994 (96th Summer Meeting) Minneapolis, Minnesota May 17 July-August 895 * October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma August 3 October 896 * November 11-13, 1994 Richmond, Virginia August 3 October 897 January 4-7, 1995 (101st Annual Meeting) San· Francisco, California OctoberS December 898 March 4-5, 1995 Hartford, Connecticut 899 March 17-18, 1995 Orlando, Florida 900 March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois August 6-8, 1995 (97th Summer Meeting) Burlington, Vermont October 7-8, 1995 Boston, Massachusetts November 3-4, 1995 Kent, Ohio November 17-18, 1995 Greensboro, North Carolina January 10-13, 1996 (102nd Annual Meeting) Orlando, Florida March 22-23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa April13-14, 1996 New York, New York April19-21, 1996 Baton Rouge, Louisiana May 24-26, 1996 Jerusalem, Israel November 1-3, 1996 Columbia, Missouri January 8-11, 1997 (103rd Annual Meeting) San Diego, California January 7-10, 1998 (104th Annual Meeting) Baltimore, Maryland * Please refer to page 495 for listing of special sessions. t Please refer to the Table of Contents for further information. Conferences June 20-July 1, 1994: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics on Dynamical Systems and Probabilistic Methods for Nonlinear Waves, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California. Other Events Cosponsored by the Society October 8-14, 1994: Symposium on the Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Deadlines September Issue October Issue November Issue December Issue Classified Ads* July 25, 1994 August 29, 1994 October 3, 1994 November 7, 1994 News Items July 13, 1994 August 24, 1994 September 21, 1994 October 25, 1994 Meeting Announcements** July 13, 1994 August 24, 1994 September 21, 1994 October 25, 1994 * Please contact AMS Advertising Department for an Advertising Rate Card for display advertising deadlines. ** For material to appear in the Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences section. OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENTS ARTICLES 427 Letters to the Editor 453 Forum 433 Ed Block Receives Citations 472 News and Announcements Ed Block, Managing Director of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, has received special citations for his service to SIAM upon the 480 Funding Information for the announcement of his retirement. Mathematical Sciences 435 American Mathematical Society National Policy Statement 1994-1995 484 For Your Information Prepared by the Federal Policy Agenda Subcommittee of the AMS 487 Meetings and Conferences of Committee on Science Policy, this document addresses public policy issues the AMS for the mathematical sciences. Eugene, OR June 16-18, 487 442 Recognition and Rewards in the Mathematical Sciences Minneapolis Mathfest, This article by Allyn Jackson summarizes a new report by the Joint Policy August 15-17, 494 Board for Mathematics and describes some current views of the rewards Invited Addresses, Special system. Sessions, and Contributed Papers, 495 445 New Mathematical Sciences Curriculum Initiative at the NSF Wiener Centennial Symposium, The NSF has launched a major new initiative in undergraduate mathematics 499 education. Allyn Jackson describes a recent workshop focused on the Call for Topics for 1996 initiative. Conferences, 501 Workshop on Women in 448 Perspectives on the Underrepresentation of Minorities in Mathematics: Probability, 503 An Interview with James C. Turner Jr. 504 Mathematical Sciences Meetings James Turner has spent a good deal of time thinking about, and acting on, and Conferences ideas to help underrepresented groups succeed in mathematics. Here he describes some of his experiences and ideas. 517 New Publications Offered by the AMS 451 Why Not Try a Sabbatical at the NSA? Ezra Brown 525 AMS Warehouse Sale This lively and informative article provides a personal perspective on what 530 AMS Reports and it's like to spend a sabbatical at the National Security Agency. Communications Reports of Past Meetings, 530 FEATURE COLUMNS 532 Miscellaneous Personal Items, 532 455 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin Deaths, 532 In the first of three software reviews this month, John Nolan mentions Visiting Mathematicians, 533 distressing bugs in the program IMAGE-Calculus. Then Mihai Cipu reports 535 New Members of the AMS on his experiences using Mathematical MacTutor, and Frank Zizza reviews Mathematica Help Stack. 544 Classified Advertising 464 Inside the AMS 557 Forms Donald G. Babbitt, formerly executive editor of Mathematical Reviews, has been appointed publisher of the AMS. This article by Allyn Jackson looks at Babbitt's new role. Also included here are the Ethical Guidelines proposed by the ad hoc Committee on Professional Responsibility. 468 Washington Outlook Lisa Thompson provides an overview of federal funding for mathematics. MAY/JUNE 1994, VOLUME 41, NUMBER 5 425 ...... _, ___ , ...................... -·-·-·· .. ·····-·-·-·-·-·-·-···-·-·-·-······-·-·-.. ··-···-""-·-·-·--···-···-·-·-"-""""""""""""·-··-.................... ___ , _____ .. _______________________________________________________________ ......... _.......... -....................................................... _.................. _. ______________ ................ -·-·· From the Executive Director ... DEFINING MATHEMATICAL SCHOLARSHIP Note: How to define scholarship is a matter of intense debate in the academic com AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY munity today. The following text. taken from the appendix to the report "Professional Recognition and Rewards in the Mathematical Sciences", provides a starting point for EDITORIAL COMMITTEE mathematical science departments trying to formulate a definition of scholarship. An Sheldon Axler article in this issue of the Notices provides further information about the report. Amassa C. Fauntleroy College and university faculty members are scholars as well as teachers. They Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) must stay abreast of the latest developments in their fields in order to remain effective Susan J. Friedlander (Forum Editor) as teachers. Academic scholars provide an important resource that can be drawn upon Carolyn S. Gordon to address pressing local, regional, and national needs. Carl R. Riehm (Letters Editor) But what is scholarship? For some, scholarship is defined narrowly as research MANAGING EDITOR that is publishable in the leading research journals. Others John S. Bradley leading to new knowledge define scholarship broadly as any activity that leads to increased knowledge or under ASSOCIATE EDITORS standing on the part of the individual scholar. Between these two extremes is a variety of Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles activities that may or may not be recognized as scholarly by those who make judgements ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR about scholarship. Allyn Jackson Each mathematical sciences department should formulate an explicit and public SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION definition of scholarship. This definition should, of course, be consistent with the mission Subscription prices for Volume 41 (1994) are of the institution. It should embrace the variety of scholarly activities in all fields that $146 list; $117 institutional member; $88 individ the institution and the department wish to encourage and support. ual member. (The subscription price for members is included in the annual dues.) A late charge of Following is a draft definition of scholarship for the mathematical sciences that 10% of the subscription price will be imposed upon may serve as a guide to departments seeking to formulate their own definitions. This orders received from nonmembers after January 1 draft will, of course, need to be modified by each department to reflect its own values of the subscription year. Add for postage: Surface and mission and to conform to the institutional mission. delivery outside the United States and lndia-$15; to lndia-$28; expedited delivery to destinations in Scholarship in the mathematical sciences includes: North America-$32; elsewhere-$67. Subscrip • research in core or applied areas that leads to new concepts, insights, discoveries, tions and orders for AMS publications should be structures, theorems, or conjectures; addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 5904, Boston, MA 02206-5904. All orders • research that leads to the development of new mathematical techniques, or new must be prepaid. applications of known techniques, for addressing problems in other fields including