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Otices of The OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Scientific Issues in Manufacturing page 404 Three Reports on Graduate Education: National Research Council page 390 Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences page 398 AMS-MAA-SIAM Committee on Preparation for College Teaching page 412 Cambri ge Meeting (June 29-July 1) page 460 MAY/JUNE 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 5 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this insofar as is possible. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are issue went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the available in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarters office of Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been assigned. Programs deadline given below for the meeting. The abstract deadlines listed below should of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary be carefully reviewed since an abstract deadline may expire before publication of announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. Abstracts a first announcement. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the journal Ab· presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified stracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue below. For additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, list of special sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 875 June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England Expired May..June (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) 876 • October 30-November 1, 1992 Dayton, Ohio August 3 October 877 • November 7-November 8, 1992 Los Angeles,Califomia August 3 October 878 • January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas October 8 December (99th Annual Meeting) 879 • March 26-27, 1993 Knoxville, Tennessee January 5 March 880 * April 9-10, 1993 Salt Lake City, Utah January 29 April 881 • April17-18, 1993 Washington, D.C. January 29 April 882 • May 21-22, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois February 26 May-June 883 * August 15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia May 18 July-August (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) October 22-23, 1993 College Station, Texas January 12-15, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (1 OOth Annual Meeting) March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma January 25-28, 1995 Denver, Colorado (101st Annual Meeting) March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois January 10-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (1 02nd Annual Meeting) *Please refer to page 476 for listing of Special Sessions. Conferences July 6-24, 1992: AMS Summer Research Institute on Quadratic January 11-12, 1993: AMS Short Course on Wavelets and forms and division algebras: Connections with algebraic K-theory Applications, San Antonio, Texas. and algebraic geometry, University of California, Santa Barbara. July 26-August 1, 1992: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics, Exploiting symmetry in applied and numerical analysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Deadlines September Issue October Issue November Issue December Issue Classified Ads* July 30, 1992 August 27, 1992 October 1, 1992 November 13, 1992 News Items July 16, 1992 August 13, 1992 September 21 , 1992 October 29, 1992 Meeting Announcements** July 16, 1992 August 17, 1992 September 21 , 1992 October 29, 1992 * 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. ••mmm- OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ARTICLES DEPARTMENTS 390 Educating Mathematical Scientists: The Doctoral and Postdoctoral 387 Letters to the Editor Experience in the United States Reprinted here are the executive summary and introduction of this important 424 Forum new report from the Board on Mathematical Sciences. In addition, five 447 News and Announcements members of the mathematical sciences community present their reactions to Funding Information for the the report. 457 Mathematical Sciences 398 Graduate Education in Transition This report by the Conference Board on the Mathematical Sciences 458 For Your Information discusses some of the major issues in graduate education in the 459 1992 AMS Elections for improvements. mathematical sciences and makes recommendations 460 Meetings and Conferences of 404 Scientific Issues in Manufacturing the AMS Manufacturing poses many intriguing scientific problems, some of which Cambridge, England were discussed at a recent workshop on intelligent manufacturing. Allyn June 29-July 1, 460 Jackson reports on the workshop. San Antonio, TX 408 The Agency that Came in from the Cold Richard Shaker January 6-9, 482 Invited Speakers, 476 These excerpts from a speech presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings Call for Topics, 480 in Baltimore in January describe recent efforts by the National Security Symposium on Some Agency to "come in from the cold" and contribut!'l to mathematics research and education. Mathematical Questions in Biology, 485 412 The Graduate Student Cohort, Doctoral Department Expectations, and Teaching Preparation Bettye Anne Case and M. Annette Blackwelder 486 Mathematical Sciences Meetings This article reports the results of the first phase of a survey of the graduate and Conferences student population and aspects of graduate training and contains interesting 498 New Publications Offered by the new data that has not been collected elsewhere. AMS 419 Support for Mathematics Departments and Federal Funding 506 AMS Warehouse Sale Allyn Jackson reports on lively discussions at a recent meeting of the AMS 512 AMS Reports and Committee on Science Policy. Communications 422 Annual AMS-MAA Survey: Doctoral Degrees Conferred 1990-1991 Recent Appointments, 512 (Supplementary List) Reports of Council Meetings, 512, A list of names and thesis titles for the 1990-1991 Ph.D. class is featured. 516 The second report of the AMS-MAA Survey will appear in the next issue of Reports of Business Meetings, the Notices. 512,516 FEATURE COLUMNS 518 Miscellaneous Personal Items, 518 427 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin Deaths, 518 An article by M. C. Nucci precedes two reviews of the new version 2.0 of Visiting Mathematicians the Mathematica system. (Supplementary List), 519 438 Inside the AMS 522 New Members of the AMS This month's column includes: reports from the AMS Secretary, Robert M. Fossum, and Treasurer, Franklin P. Peterson; a report on the JPBM 525 Classified Advertising Committee on Professional Recognition and Rewards; a note on a 545 Forms temporary policy change for Transactions of the AMS; and a brief look at the Trjitzinsky awards made to students. 445 Washington Outlook Richard Herman, chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, discusses the FY 1993 budget for the National Science Foundation. MAY/JUNE 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 5 385 From the Executive Director ... MATHEMATICS INFRASTRUCTURE: POSTDOCS This column (November 1989 Notices) addressed postdoctoral programs in the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY mathematical sciences with particular attention on the need to have a strong compo­ nent of mentorship in any such program and asked the question should postdoctoral positions in mathematics be less-the-exception and more-the-rule. Discussions taking place at that time in the AMS Committee on Science Policy were a major impetus for the National Research Council (NRC) study on doctoral and postdoctoral experiences in the mathematical sciences reported on in this issue of the Notices. The NRC report EDITORIAL COMMITTEE and a related report on a workshop "Graduate Education in Transition" published by Michael G. Crandall the Conference Board on Mathematical Sciences (1992) has heightened discussion of Amassa Fauntleroy position in mathematics Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) the mathematics postdoctoral experience. Should a postdoc Carolyn S. Gordon (Forum Editor) be a logical next-step after the doctorate? Is it an important step in continuing lifelong D. J. Lewis professional development? L. Ridgway Scott (Letters Editor) There is statistical information available that provides some perspective. For the Robert E. L. Turner year 1988 (last year of complete figures), there were 752 new Ph.D.s in mathematics MANAGING EDITOR from U.S. doctoral granting institutions, 280 individuals being counted as postdocs, John S. Bradley and 188 postdocs receiving some federal support. During the same period, physics had 1093 and chemistry had 1990 new Ph.D.s, 1578 physicists and 3429 chemists ASSOCIATE EDITORS were counted as postdocs, and 1280 physics postdocs and 2587 chemistry postdocs Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles were receiving some federal support. It is often pointed out that the differences are Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles easily explained because both physics and chemistry can be viewed as laboratory sciences. It is
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