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OF THE MATHEMATICAL Pilot Assessment of the Mathematical Sciences Prepared for the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology page 101 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 journal Abstracts tion at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For of papers 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 Expired March 873 • March 2Q-21, 1992 Springfield, Missouri Expired March 874 • April11-12, 1992 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Expired April 875 • June 29--July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England February 28 May-June (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) 876 • October 3Q-November 1, 1992 Dayton, Ohio August 3 October January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas OctoberS December (99th Annual Meeting) March 26-27, 1993 Knoxville, Tennessee January 5 March 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 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 (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 1Q-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (102nd Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 131 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 April Issue May/June Issue July/August Issue September Issue Classified Ads* February 26, 1992 May 5, 1992 June 16, 1992 July 30, 1992 News Items February 20, 1992 April 20, 1992 June 8, 1992 July 16, 1992 Meeting Announcements•• February 24, 1992 April 23, 1992 June 11, 1992 July 20, 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 ARTICLES 99 Letters to the Editor 111 Forum 101 Pilot Assessment of the Mathematical Sciences Prepared for the House 119 News and Announcements Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 122 Funding Information for the What are the major goals of the mathematical sciences? What procedures Mathematical Sciences are used to assess progress toward these goals? What achievements have been made? These and other questions were posed to the Society by a staff 123 1992 AMS Elections task force of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the U.S. 125 Meetings and Conferences of House of Representatives. In response, the Society convened a panel and theAMS produced a report, which was completed in December 1991. In order to Tuscaloosa, AL initiate discussion within the community, the report is reproduced here. March 13-14, 125 Springfield, MO March 20-21, 127 FEATURE COLUMNS Bethlehem, PA April11-12, 129 Invited Speakers, 131 113 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin 1992 Summer Research This month Keith Devlin presents us with an article that summarizes the Conferences in the Mathematical very rapid progress that has been made in integrating computer technology Sciences, 135 with mathematical practice over the past few decades. Following the article, 1992 Summer Research Institute, Suzanne Molnar of the College of St. Catherine reviews PSMathGraphsll 137 and Louis Grey of Sacred Heart University reports on his experiences with 1992 Summer Seminar in Applied the statistical package ASP. Mathematics, 138 139 Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences 150 New AMS Publications 152 AMS Reports and Communications Election Results, 152 153 New Members of the AMS 155 Classified Advertising 165 Forms FEBRUARY 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 2 97 From the Executive Director ... ASSESSMENT OF MATHEMATICS In this column (Notices, December 1991, page 1234), it was AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY reported that the staff of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology had approached the Society for assistance in a pilot project to examine ways of improving the decision making process for funding research programs and agencies that fall within the Committee's jurisdiction. Several factors are motivating this project. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE First, the Committee is concerned with the health of the nation's research Michael G. Crandall enterprise. Second, new pressures have been brought to bear by the Office Amassa Fauntleroy Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) of Technology Assessment for priority setting and assessment in federal Carolyn S. Gordon (Forum Editor) research funding. Third, the staff of the House Committee is seeking D. J. Lewis mechanisms that will assist the Committee in determining priorities L. Ridgway Scott Robert E. L. Turner (Letters Editor) among research programs and agencies that fall within its jurisdiction. And finally, there appears to be some motivation for introducing a MANAGING EDITOR rational component into the Committee's authorization procedures. John S. Bradley The Society agreed to assist in this project and was sent a list of ASSOCIATE EDITORS questions to answer as part of this pilot performance assessment. The Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles questions and the answers provided are part of the report submitted to Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles the staff of the Committee and published in this issue of the Notices. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The charge to the Society was to address the specific questions by Subscription prices for Volume 39 (1992) are adhering as closely as possible to the format and content provided. The $131 list; $105 institutional member; $79 individ specific questions were framed within three categories: goals, existing ual member. (The subscription price for members program assessment, and attainment of goals. At first glance the task is included in the annual dues.) A late charge of 10% of the subscription price will be imposed upon looked quite difficult, perhaps impossible. orders received from nonmembers after January 1 The Society formed a panel to undertake a response. The panel of the subscription year. Add for postage: Surface was chosen to provide broad representation from various sectors of the delivery outside the United States and lndia-$15; mathematical sciences community. In addition to the panel members, to lndia-$28; expedited delivery to destinations in North America-$32; elsewhere-$67. Subscrip representatives from National Research Council boards, from federal tions and orders for AMS publications should be funding agencies, and from professional mathematics organizations were addressed to the American Mathematical Society, included in meetings, communications, and reports of the panel. The P.O. Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, Rl 02901-1571. All orders must be prepaid. panel, with several of these representatives, met twice as a full committee in Washington, DC, had other smaller group meetings, and communicated ADVERTISING extensively via email. Notices publishes situations wanted and classified At first, the panel wanted to reject the format provided by the advertising, and display advertising for publishers and academic or scientific organizations. Committee. However, realizing that the particular questions and the Copyright @ 1992 by the American Mathematical format were important to the process, the panel organized itself toward Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the United providing