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OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society page 32 JANUARY 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 1 · 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 is possible. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available issue went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarters office of the So Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The ciety. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is par headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline ticularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been assigned. Programs of given below for the meeting. The abstract deadlines listed below should be care the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary fully reviewed since an abstract deadline may expire before publication of a first announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. Abstracts of announcement. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presenta papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the joumal Abstracts tion at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For ofpapers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue correspond additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the list of special ing to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, insofar as sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 872 • March 13-14, 1992 Tuscaloosa, Alabama January 2 March 873 • March 20-21, 1992 Springfield, Missouri January 2 March 874 • April11-12, 1992 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania January30 April 875 • June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England February 28 May-June (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) 876 • October 30-November 1, 1992 Dayton, Ohio August 3 October January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) March 26-27, 1993 Knoxville, Tennessee April9-10, 1993 Salt Lake City, Utah April17-18, 1993 Washington, D.C. May 21-22, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois August15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) October 22-23, 1993 College Station, Texas January 12-15, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (100th Annual Meeting) March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas 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 38 for listing of Special Sessions. Conferences March 5-8, 1992: Joint Workshop on Changing the culture: education July 6-24, 1992: AMS Summer Research Institute on Quadratic and the research community, Oakland/Berkeley, California. forms and division algebras: Connections with algebraic K-theory June 13-July 24, 1992: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the and algebraic geometry, University of California, Santa Barbara. Mathematical Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, July 26-August 1, 1992: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Massachusetts. Mathematics, Exploiting symmetry in applied and numerical analysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Deadlines March Issue April Issue May/June Issue July/August Issue Classified Ads* January 30, 1992 February 26, 1992 May 5, 1992 June 16, 1992 News Items January 21, 1992 February 20, 1992 April 20, 1992 June 8, 1992 Meeting Announcements•• January 23, 1992 February 24, 1992 April 23, 1992 June 11, 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. OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENTS FEATURE COLUMNS 3 Letters to the Editor 5 Forum 8 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin 20 News and Announcements Keith Devlin discusses the development of computer tools to support 24 1992 AMS Elections cooperative work by possibly large research and development teams. Also, Maurino Bautista reviews Models, Roger Pinkham takes a look at Calculus 27 Meetings and Conferences of Calculator (CC), and Marvin Margolis reviews two programs, Derive 2.0 and the AMS ODE. Tuscaloosa, AL March 13-14, 27 Springfield, MO AMS 17 Inside the March 20-21, 29 Lenore Blum, Vice President of the AMS, reports on the Third Pan-African Joint Workshop on Congress of Mathematicians held in Nairobi last August and offers some Changing the Culture: suggestions for cooperative efforts between the American and African Education and the Research mathematical communities. Community, 31 Cambridge, England June 29-July 1, 32 Invited Speakers, 38 1992 Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics, 41 1992 Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, 42 1992 Summer Research Institute, 44 46 Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences 58 New AMS Publications 61 Miscellaneous Personal Items, 61 Deaths, 61 Visiting Mathematicians, 61 62 New Members of the AMS 63 AMS Policy on Recruitment Advertising 64 Classified Advertising 87 Forms JANUARY 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 1 From the Executive Director ... A WASHINGTON OFFICE The AMS will open an office in Washington, DC in 1992. For many years, the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Society has contemplated, with growing frequency and concern, its distance, physical and psychological, from the Washington, DC area. Benefits of having an AMS office in Washington have been discussed and weighed, generally with positive conclusions. In a recent consensus report involving the leadership, membership, and staff of the Society, the Strategic Planning Task Force (SPTF) clarified the Society's mission EDITORIAL COMMITIEE and set a strategic direction in response to numerous issues facing the mathemat Michael G. Crandall ical sciences community. Most prominent among these are maintaining the health Amassa Fauntleroy and vitality of mathematical research, reforming mathematics education at all levels, Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) transferring mathematical knowledge to other disciplines and to industry, and mak Carolyn S. Gordon (Forum Editor) ing the public aware of the usefulness of mathematics and its connections to solving D. J. Lewis societal and economic problems. These overarching issues demand the Society's at L. Ridgway Scott tention. However, the Society is faced with a significant barrier to its effectiveness Robert E. L. 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