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Calendar NOTE: This Calendar lists all of the meetings which have been approved by the Council up to the date at which this issue of the cJfo!aW was sent to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which tall rather far in the future are subject to change. This is particularly true of the meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Meeting Deadline for Abstracts* Number Date Place and News I terns 702 April 14, 1973 Stanford, California Feb. 26, 1973 703 April 18-21, 1973 New York, New York Feb. 26, 1973 704 April 27-28, 1973 Evanston, Illinois Feb. 26, 1973 705 June 16, 1973 Bellingham, Washington May 3, 1973 706 August 20-24, 1973 Missoula, Montana June 28, 1973 (78th Summer Meeting) 707 October 27, 1973 Cambridge, Massachusetts Sept. 6, 1973 708 November 3, 1973 Minneapolis, Minnesota Sept. 6, 1973 709 November 16-17, 1973 Atlanta, Georgia Oct. 1, 1973 710 November 24, 1973 Tucson, Arizona Oct. 1, 1973 711 January 15-19, 1974 San Francisco, California (80th Annual Meeting) January 23-27, 1975 Washington, D. C. (81st Annual Meeting) January 22-26, 1976 San Antonio, Texas (82nd Annual Meeting) *Deadline for abstracts not presented at a meeting (by title). June 1973 issue: April 26 August 1973 issue: June 21 OTHER EVENTS June 30, 1973 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology Mexico City, Mexico September 3-15, 1973 International Meeting on Combinatorial Theory Rome, Italy August 21-29, 1974 International Congress of Mathematicians Vancouver, B. C., Canada Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in most departments of mathematics; f(Jrms can also be obtained by writing to the headquarters of the Society. Abstracts to be presented at the meeting in person must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or be­ f(Jre the deadline for the meeting. ··----~~ ~:~· -------- The cJ,fotiaiJ of the American Mathematical Society is published by the American Mathematical Society, 321 South Main Street, P. 0. Box 6248, Providence, Rhode Island 02904 in January, February, April, June, August, October, November and December. Price per annual volume is $10.00. Price per copy $3.00. 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