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OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Rademacher on J( 1), Poincare Series of Nonpositive Weights and the Eichler Cohomology Marvin I. Knopp page 385 Columbus Meeting (August 8-11) page 447 First Announcem~t The National Science Foundation Budget Request for Fiscal 1991 page 394 Mathematics Outside of Mathematics Departments page 408 APRIL 1990, VOLUME 37, 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, 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 858 • April 19-21, 1990 Albuquerque, New Mexico Expired March 859 • August 8-11 • 1990 Columbus, Ohio May 18 JulyI August t (93rd Summer Meeting) 860 * October 20-21,1990 Amherst, Massachusetts August 6 October 861 * November 2-3, 1990 Denton, Texas August 6 October 862 * November 10-11,1990 Irvine, California August 6 October 863 January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California October 10 December (97th Annual Meeting) March 16-17, 1991 South Bend, Indiana March 22-23,1991 Tampa, Florida August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine (94th Summer Meeting) October 12-13, 1991 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 25-26, 1991 Fargo, North Dakota January 8-11, 1992 Baltimore, Maryland (98th Annual Meeting) March 27-28, 1992 Springfield, Missouri June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) August 15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) January 5-8, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (100th Annual Meeting) January 1 0-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (1 02nd Annual Meeting) *Please refer to page 485 for listing of special sessions. t Preregistration/Housing deadline is June 6 Conferences June 7-July 4, 1990: Joint Summer Research Conferences in August 2-3, 1990: AMS-SIAM-SMB Symposium on Some the Mathematical Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Mathematical Questions in Biology, Neural Networks, Amherst, Massachusetts. Vancouver, Canada. June 18-29, 1990: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Vortex August 6-7, 1990: AMS Short Course, Combinatorial Games, 'Dynamics and Vortex Methods, University of Washington, Columbus, Ohio. Seattle, Washington. July 8-28, 1990: AMS Summer Research Institute on Differential Geometry, University of California, Los Angeles, California. Deadlines May-June Issue July-August Issue September Issue October Issue Classified Ads* April 23, 1990 June 14, 1990 July 30, 1990 August 27, 1990 News Items April 25, 1990 June 18, 1990 August 3, 1990 August 30, 1990 Meeting Announcements** April 16, 1990 May 29, 1990 July 19, 1990 August14, 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 385 Rademacher on J(r), Poincare Series of Nonpositive Weights and the 383 Letters to the Editor Eichler Cohomology Marvin I. Knopp 412 Forum NEW DEPARTMENT Starting with the Fourier series expansion of J ( r) and specific formulas In this issue, the Notices has instituted a new department called Forum. This department, for its coefficients, Rademacher was able to prove that J ( r) is a modular created in response to a recommendation of invariant. Applying similar reasoning to automorphic forms of negative the AMS Science Policy Committee, will pub weight, one is naturally led to cocycle conditions and Eichler cohomology. lish short articles on issues which are of Marvin Knopp describes the fascinating connections. interest to the mathematical community. We inaugurate the Forum with two articles con 394 The NSF Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1991 cerning mathematics education and the pro fessional mathematician. Fiscal year 1990 didn't bring the budget increases that NSF was hoping for, but the picture will be rosier in 1991 if the President's requested 440 News and Announcements increase of 14% for fiscal 1991 actually materializes. Part of the increase 444 Funding Information for the will go toward starting a new batch of Science and Technology Centers Mathematical Sciences and strengthening the NSF's education activities. In this annual report, Allyn Jackson examines the major components of the budget request. 445 AMS Elections 447 Meetings and Conferences of the 408 Mathematics Outside of Mathematics Departments Solomon A. AMS Garfunkel and Gail S. Young Columbus, OH In the last twenty years, there has been a dramatic rise in the number AugustB-11,447 of bachelor's degrees awarded in science and engineering. Because AMS Short Course, 482 these areas have become increasingly mathematical, one would expect a Invited Speakers, 485 concomitant increase in enrollments in advanced mathematics courses. Symposium on Some But, despite large increases in calculus enrollments, enrollments in Mathematical Questions in advanced mathematics have remained steady. In their study, the authors Biology, 488 found that more students are enrolled in advanced mathematics courses Call for Topics, 489 outside of mathematics departments than inside them. They discuss their 491 Mathematical Sciences Meetings findings and the implications for the mathematical community. and Conferences FEATURE COLUMNS 503 New AMS Publications 506 AMS Reports and 417 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise Communications The issue of what goes to make up good courseware for undergraduate Recent Appointments, 506 mathematics is addressed in an article by Keith Devlin. In addition, there Reports of Past Meetings, 506 are reviews of several pieces of mathematical software: FFTLIB, Phaser, Officers, 507 and three programs for the NeXT: Groups, Rubik Algebra, and Orbit. 508 Miscellaneous 435 Inside the AMS Personal Items, 508 Deaths, 508 H. Hope Daly, the AMS Director of Meetings, gives a behind-the-scenes Visiting Mathematicians look at what it takes to put on a January Meeting. (Supplement), 508 438 Washington Outlook 509 New Members of the AMS Hans J. Oser discusses testimony of Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of 513 Classified Advertising Education and Erich Bloch, Director of the National Science Foundation, 523 Forms given before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. APRIL 1990, VOLUME 37, NUMBER 4 381 From the Executive Director . .. Books: Acquisition and Distribution The Society is a publisher of books. The books published by the Society are principally for the communication of research mathematics. They are pub AMERICAN MATHEMATICAl. SOCIETY lished in series (Colloquium, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs ... ) and out-of-series (for example, I Have a Photographic Memory by Halmos). The first book published by the Society was the Proceedings of the Inter national Mathematical Congress of 1893. That Congress also spawned the EDITORIAL COMMITIEE Colloquium Series which the Society began in 1896. The Colloquium Series Robert J. Blattner (Forum Editor) was the only book series for the first fifty years. Today, there are nearly thirty Michael G. Crandall such series, and this year the Society has plans to publish over seventy books. Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) When one thinks of publishing books, one thinks of the processes of editing, Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis Nancy K. Stanton composing/keyboarding, typesetting and printing. These are extremely im Robert E. L. Turner (Letters Editor) portant aspects of publishing and ones which the Society performs very well. MANAGING EDITOR However, there are two other important aspects of publishing that determine Donovan H. Van Osdol its content and its success in communication: acquisition of manuscripts and ASSOCIATE EDITORS distribution of published materials. These are the aspects of the Society's Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles publishing program that involve the mathematical community and depend Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles on that community for its quality and success. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The acquisition of all Society books comes under review of editorial commit Subscription prices for Volume 37