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OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY National Science Foundation Budget Request for Fiscal 1990 page 359 Chicago Meeting (May 19-20) page 421 APRIL 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 4 Providence, Rhode Island, USA • ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings which have been approved prior to Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices the date this issue of Notices was sent to the press. The summer which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be sub and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Associ mitted on special forms which are available in many departments of ation of America and the American Mathematical Society The meet mathematics and from the headquarters office of the Society. Ab ing dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this stracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been as at the headquarters of the Society in Providence. Rhode Island, on signed. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special have appeared in earlier issues. sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are pub additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the lished in the journal Abstracts cl papers presented to the American list of organizers of special sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 850 • August 7- 10, 1989 Boulder, Coloradot May 16 July I August (92nd Summer Meeting) 851 • October 21-22, 1989 Hoboken, New Jersey August 16 October 852 • October 27-28, 1989 Muncie, Indiana August 16 October 853 November 18-19, 1989 Los Angeles, California August 16 November 854 January 17-20, 1990 Louisville, Kentucky October 11 December (96th Annual Meeting) March 16-17, 1990 Manhattan, Kansas August 8-11, 1990 Columbus, Ohio (93rd Summer Meeting) November 2-3, 1990 Denton, Texas January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California (97th Annual Meeting) August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine (94th Summer Meeting) January 8-11 , 1992 Baltimore, Maryland (98th Annual Meeting) June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) January 5·8, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (1 OOth Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 477 for listing of special sessions. t Preregistration/Housing deadline is June 1 Conferences May 26- May 30, 1989: AMS Pure Mathematics Symposium July 10-30, 1989: AMS Summer Research Institute on on Complex Geometry and Lie Theory, Sundance Resort, Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry, Sundance, Utah University of California, Santa Cruz, California May 29-June 9, 1989: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on the August 6-7, 1989: AMS Short Course on Cryptology and Mathematics of Random Media, Virginia Polytechnic Computational Number Theory, Boulder. Colorado Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia August 7, 1989: AMS-SIAM-SMB Symposium on Some June 3-August 5, 1989: Joint Summer Research Mathematical Questions in Biology, Sex Allocations and Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Humboldt Sex Change: Experiments and Models, University of State University, Arcata. California Toronto. Deadlines MayI June Issue July1 August Issue September Issue October Issue Classified Ads* April 21, 1989 June 12, 1989 July 31, 1989 Aug 28, 1989 News Items April 27, 1989 June 12, 1989 Aug 3, 1989 Aug 29, 1989 Meeting Announcements•• April 20, 1989 June 5, 1989 July 27, 1989 Aug 22, 1989 • 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 ARTICLES DEPARTMENTS 359 National Science Foundation Budget Request for Fiscal 1990 355 Letters to the Editor This article is the 17th in an annual series of reports outlining the President's request to Congress for the NSF budget. 405 News and Announcements 411 Funding Information for the 376 Richard S. Nicholson Moves to AAAS Mathematical Sciences Richard S. Nicholson, who this month will become Executive Officer 416 For Your Information of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is interviewed by Allyn Jackson. 419 Meetings and Conferences of the AMS (Listing) 380 NCTM School Mathematics Standards 485 1989 AMS Elections Allyn Jackson examines The National Council of Teachers of (Nominations by Petition) Mathematics' report, Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. 487 Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences 383 Annual AMS-MAA SuNey: Doctoral Degrees Conferred 1987-1988 500 New AMS Publications (Supplementary List) 504 AMS Reports and A list of names and thesis titles for members of the 1987-1988 Ph.D. Communications class is featured. Recent Appointments, 504 Officers, 504 FEATURE COLUMNS 505 Miscellaneous 386 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise Personal Items, 505 This month's column includes three reviews of mathematical software, Deaths, 505 as well as a proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, which has 507 Classified Advertising played ah important role in the relationship between computers and mathematics. 517 Forms 401 Inside the AMS Robert M. Fossum and Kenneth A. Ross Robert M. Fossum, the Secretary of the AMS, and Kenneth A. Ross, the Secretary of the MAA, explain how the scientific portions of the Joint Mathematics Meetings are scheduled. 402 Washington Outlook Kenneth M. Hoffman In this month's column, Hans J. Oser reports on the first hearings of the House Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, which oversees the National Science Foundation and other technical agencies of the government. APRIL 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 4 353 Mathematicians and Professional Service AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY The dialogue concerning mathematicians in public/professional service seems to be intensifying. The issue was a topic at the January Council Meeting in Phoenix. It is on the agendas of the Society's Committee on Science Policy EDITORIAL COMMITTEE and the Executive Committee of the Council and the Board of Trustees. In Robert J. Blattner, Michael G. Crandall Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) addition, it surfaced during the interview with Richard S. Nicholson that Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis appears in this Notices. Nancy K. Stanton, Robert E. L. Turner What is at issue? Mathematicians need to serve the profession in administra INTERIM MANAGING EDITOR tive roles and in the various ad hoc assignments that call for the judgment of James W. Maxwell professional mathematicians. With increased emphasis on public represen tation, research funding, and education, the demands for mathematicians in ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles such roles actually may be greater than in the past. Whether the demand is Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles greater or not, there is no doubt that the community is more aware of this need and this awareness has generated a call for action. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscription prices for Volume 36 (1989) are The problems associated with this issue are not restricted to any one part $1 08 list; $86 institutional member; $65 individual of our community. Administration and service at the department level is as member. (The subscription price for members is much at issue as administration and service at the national level. We are included in the annual dues.) A late charge of 10% of the subscription price will be imposed familiar with the department member who only reluctantly takes on the po upon orders received from nonmembers after sition of chair and with the constant struggle over what emphasis to give January 1 of the subscription year. Add for post to service during merit evaluation. Relatively few upper level academic ad age: Surface delivery outside the United States ministrators are mathematicians, and most every mathematician does great and lndia-$1 0; to lndia-$20; expedited deliv soul searching before taking on a major committee responsibility. And, of ery to destinations in North America-$15; else where-$38. Subscriptions and orders for AMS course, there is the perennial effort to bring mathematicians into service at publications should be addressed to the Amer the federal funding agencies. All of this has special importance to the Soci ican Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, An ety. 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