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OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ICM-90 Second Announcement page 188 Manhattan Meeting (March 16-17) page 148 Fayetteville Meeting (March 23-24) page 162 990 Cole Prize page 118 1990 Award for Distinguished Public Service page 120 FEBRUARY 1990, VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2 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, insofar as is possible. and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Associ Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in ation of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meet many departments of mathematics and from the headquarters office ing dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been as must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, signed. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meet below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will ing. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for pre have appeared in earlier issues. sentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are pub specified below. For additional information, consult the meeting an lished in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American nouncements and the list of organizers of special sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 855 • March 16-17, 1990 Manhattan, Kansas Expired February 856 • March 23-24, 1990 Fayetteville, Arkansas Expired February 857 • April 7-8, 1990 University Park, Pennsylvania Expired March 858 • April 19-22, 1990 Albuquerque, New Mexico Expired March 859 • August 8-11, 1990 Columbus, Ohio May 18 July I August (93rd Summer Meeting) October 20-21,1990 Amherst, Massachusetts August 6 October November 2-3, 1990 Denton, Texas August 6 October January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California October 10 December (97th Annual Meeting) August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine (94th Summer Meeting) March 16-17, 1991 South Bend, Indiana March 22-23,1991 Tampa, Florida 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-B, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (100th Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 179 for listing of special sessions. Conferences June 7-July 4, 1990: Joint Summer Research Conferences in July 8-28, 1990: AMS Summer Research Institute on the Mathematical Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Differential Geometry, University of California, Los Angeles, Amherst, Massachusetts. California June 18-29, 1990: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Methods, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Events Cosponsored by the Society February 15-20, 1990: Section A (Mathematics) Sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadlines April Issue May-June Issue July-August Issue September Issue Classified Ads* March 6, 1990 April 23, 1990 June 14, 1990 July 30, 1990 News Items March 5, 1990 April25, 1990 June 18, 1990 August 3, 1990 Meeting Announcements•• Feb 27, 1990 April16, 1990 May 29, 1990 July 19, 1990 • 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 115 Letters to the Editor 118 Shigefumi Mori Awarded 1990 Cole Prize in Algebra 138 News and Announcements The Twenty-Third Cole Prize was awarded to Shigefumi Mori of Nagoya University for his outstanding work on the classification of algebraic 145 Funding Information for the varieties. Mathematical Sciences 148 Meetings and Conferences of the 120 Award for Distinguished Public Service Presented to Kenneth M. AMS Hoffman Manhattan, KS March 16-17, 148 The 1990 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service was presented to Kenneth M. Hoffman for his outstanding leadership in establishing Fayetteville, AR channels of communication among the mathematical community, makers March 23-24, 162 University Park, PA of public policy, and the general public. Apri/7-8, 173 Albuquerque, NM 144 Addendum to Newton's Principia, Read 300 Years Later V.I. Arnol'd and Apri/19-22, 176 V. A. Vasil' ev MAA Contributed Papers, 178 Invited Speakers, 179 213 The Accidental Mathematician Michael Albertson Joint Summer Research Michael Albertson shares some personal experiences and insights on Conferences in the Mathematical Kyoto and relates them to the ICM-90 Second Announcement. Sciences, 182 AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar, 184 AMS Summer Research Institute, FEATURE COLUMNS 185 Sessions at AAAS Meeting, 187 123 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise ICM-90 Second Announcement, 188 This month's column contains reactions to the debate over proofs of program correctness; an article tracing the development of a computer 216 Mathematical Sciences Meetings environment at Lafayette College; a piece on the use of computer mail tor and Conferences homework assignments; and a review of True BASIC, Calculus 3.0. 227 New AMS Publications 229 AMS Reports and 132 Inside the AMS Communications William B. Woolf traces the evolution of the Mathematical Reviews (MR) Recent Appointments, 229 database from paper to electronic tiles, and takes a glance at possible 231 Miscellaneous future developments. Personal Items, 231 Deaths, 231 135 Washington Outlook Visiting Mathematicians This month's column, co-written by A. B. Willcox and Hans J. Oser, looks (Supplement), 231 back at some of the events of the 80s and discusses the work of the 232 New Members of the AMS Office of Governmental and Public Affairs of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. 234 AMS Policy of Recruitment 235 Classified Advertising 251 Forms FEBRUARY 1990, VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2 113 Planning Quite a long essay could result by giving a brief description of all of the planning activities that routinely take place at the Society. The budgeting ex ercise has little meaning without management plans for member services, the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY publication program, personnel needs, capital needs, and on and on. Several management groups maintain a continuing overview of Society operations and anticipate future needs to carry on Society activities. The information gained from the work of these groups then feeds into the year-long process of arriving at expenses to carry on the Society's activities and the setting of EDITORIAL COMMITTEE revenues to cover expenses. The FY 1991 budgeting process started in early Robert J. Blattner, Michael G. Crandall Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) December 1989 and will culminate in an authorized budget for Society oper Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis ations for FY1991 at the conclusion of the November 1990 Board of Trustees Nancy K. Stanton, Robert E. L. Turner meeting. These are interesting processes to MANAGING EDITOR the members; however, they are processes Donovan H. Van Osdol that deal with the mechanisms of implementing philosophical and strategi cal Society planning. How are these philosophical and strategical plans for ASSOCIATE EDITORS mulated? There is no brief answer to this question, but there are two very Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles important review and planning processes just beginning in the Society which Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles illustrate the early aspects of Society planning and which point to channels by which members can voice opinions about the planning process. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscription prices for Volume 37 (1990) are First is the appropriately named Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC), $113 list; $90 institutional member; $68 individual a standing Committee of the Board of Trustees. While its charge can be member. (The subscription price for members is simply stated, the scope of its charge is enormous. The LRPC is to review included in the annual dues.) A late charge of the functioning of the Society and to report its conclusions to the Executive 10% of the subscription price will be imposed upon orders received from nonmembers after Committee of the Council and to the Board of Trustees. The work of this January 1 of the subscription year. Add for post Committee has been very influential on the policies of the Society affecting age: Surface delivery outside the United States governance, development/fund raising activity, publications, management, and lndia-$11 ; to lndia-$22; expedited deliv and budget. Members of this Committee are the Chair of the Board, Trea ery to destinations in North America-$24; else surer, where-$49. Subscriptions and orders for AMS Secretary, third- and fourth-year members of the Executive Committee, publications should be addressed to the Amer and the Executive Director. ican Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, An An earlier LRPC recommended that every five years the Committee become nex Station, Providence, AI 02901-1571. All or ders must be prepaid. intensely active. Following this schedule, the LRPC is undertaking a serious review and planning during 1990. There is an open letter to the members of ADVERTISING the Society from the Chair of the LRPC in the "Inside the AMS" Section of Notices publishes situations wanted and classi the January issue of Notices, page 17. This letter solicits members' ideas and fied advertising, and display advertising for pub responses. lishers and academic or scientific organizations. Copyright@ 1990 by the American Mathemat The second planning process is carried out by the Executive Committee (EC) ical Society. All rights reserved.