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OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Encouraging Women in Math and Science page 5 / INSIDE THE AMS CEEP and The Annual Survey page 16 Advice Sought - Long Range Planning Committee page 17 JANUARY 1990, VOLUME 37, NUMBER 1 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 855 • March 16-17, 1990 Manhattan, Kansas Expired February 856 • March 23-24, 1990 Fayetteville, Arkansas Expired February 857 • April 7-8, 1990 University Park, Pennsylvania January 25 March 858 • April 19-22, 1990 Albuquerque, New Mexico January 25 March 859 • August 8-11, 1990 Columbus, Ohio May 18 July I August (93rd Summer Meeting) October 20-21,1990 Amherst, Massachusetts August 6 October November 2-3, 1990 Denton, Texas August 6 October January 16-19, 1991 San Francisco, California October 10 December (97th Annual Meeting) August 8-11, 1991 Orono, Maine (94th Summer Meeting) March 16-17, 1991 Southbend, Indiana March 22-23,1991 Tampa, Florida January 8-11 , 1992 Baltimore, Maryland (98th Annual Meeting) June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas (99th Annual Meeting) January 5-8, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (1 OOth Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 43 for listing of special sessions. Conferences June 7 -July 4, 1990: Joint Summer Research Conferences in July 8-28, 1990: AMS Summer Research Institute on the Mathematical Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Differential Geometry, University of California, Los Angeles, Amherst, Massachusetts. California June 18-29, 1990: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Vortex Dynamics and Vortex Methods, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Events Cosponsored by the Society February 15-20, 1990: Section A (Mathematics) Sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadlines March Issue April Issue May-June Issue July-August Issue Classified Ads* Feb 8, 1990 March 6, 1990 April 23, 1990 June 14, 1990 News Items Feb 9.1990 March 5, 1990 April 25, 1990 June 18, 1990 Meeting Announcements•• Jan 291990 Feb 27, 1990 April 16, 1990 May 29, 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 2 Journal Price Survey - Threatened 3 Letters to the Editor William H. Jaco, Executive Director of the AMS, responds to a challenge 20 News and Announcements to the integrity of the Journal Price Survey published in the November issue of Notices. 31 Funding Information for the Mathematical Sciences 5 Encouraging Women in Math and Science 32 For Your Information Encouraging more women to choose careers in mathematics and 33 Meetings and Conferences science is at the top of everyone's agenda these days. But how do we of the AMS make it happen? Last November, about 200 mathematicians, scientists, Manhattan, KS and educators convened for a lively two-day conference to discuss March 16-17, 33 various programs and studies addressing this issue. Allyn Jackson Fayetteville, AR reports on this upbeat and productive conference. March 23-24, 36 University Park, PA April 7-8, 39 Albuquerque, NM FEATURE COLUMNS Apri/19-22, 41 Invited Speakers, 43 Joint Summer Research 7 Computers and Mathematics Jon Barwise Conferences in the This month's column contains a piece about the computer calculus Mathematical Sciences, 46 project going on at the University of Michigan at Dearborn and two AMS-SIAM Summer reviews, one of the PC version of Macsyma and one on the Mac version Seminar, 48 of MathCAD. AMS Summer Research Institute, 49 16 Inside the AMS Section A (Mathematics) Sessions at AAAS Meeting, Edward A. Connors reports on the History of the Committee on 51 Employment and Educational Policy (CEEP) and its Annual Survey, and William P. Thurston raises some serious questions facing the Long 52 Mathematical Sciences Range Planning Committee (LRPC) and asks for reader responses. Meetings and Conferences 63 New AMS Publications 19 Washington Outlook 65 New Members of the AMS This month, Hans J. Oser examines the need for more emphasis on education from funding agencies, instructors, and textbook authors. 68 Classified Advertising 107 Forms JANUARY 1990, VOLUME 37, NUMBER 1 1 Journal Price Survey - Threatened The ability to conduct and publish cost comparison studies of research journals is being threatened. In 1982 the Society decided that a cost comparison study of AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY mathematical research journals would benefit the entire mathematical community. The AMS published its first survey of American research journals in the November 1983 Notices. This first survey used data collected from the 1982 issues of the journals. The second survey EDITORIAL COMMITTEE used new data collected from the 1984 issues of the journals and was Robert J. Blattner, Michael G. Crandall published in the March 1986 Notices. A companion of the second Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) Lucy J. Garnett, D. J. Lewis survey, a study by the European Mathematical Council (EMC) of Nancy K. Stanton, Robert E. L. Turner prices of European journals, was published in the November 1986 MANAGING EDITOR Notices. Donovan H. VanOsdol After the first survey, the AMS received notification from at for Gordon & Breach, Scientific Publishers, Inc. objecting ASSOCIATE EDITORS torneys Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles to the content of the survey as it related to the Gordon & Breach Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles (G & B) journals. The attorneys for G & B went on to say that" ... SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION this survey may be the case of wrongful computation and may also Subscription prices for Volume 37 (1990) are involve trade libel of our client." $113 list; $90 institutional member; $68 individual As a consequence of the EMC survey, the Chairman of the member. (The subscription price for members is to those journals whose included in the annual dues.) A late charge of EMC was instructed by the EMC to write 10% of the subscription price will be imposed costs were significantly above average, drawing their attention to the upon orders received from nonmembers after situation and asking for their cooperation in keeping costs down. January 1 of the subscription year. Add for post & to the Chairman of the age: Surface delivery outside the United States After receiving such a letter, G B replied and lndia-$11; to lndia-$22; expedited deliv EMC that they believed they had "a substantial case involving trade ery to destinations in North America-$24; else libel" and that they had "turned this matter over to legal counsel where-$49. Subscriptions and orders for AMS Kingdom." publications should be addressed to the Amer both in the United States and in the United ican Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, An At the height of these exchanges, the Society yielded to pressure nex Station, Providence, AI 02901-1571. All or against publishing a complete survey. The second AMS survey, ders must be prepaid. appearing in the March 1986 Notices, did not include the G & B ADVERTISING journals, as reported in a footnote to that survey. There was, however, Notices publishes situations wanted and classi no agreement to refrain from ever including G & B journals in any fied advertising, and display advertising for pub lishers and academic or scientific organizations. future survey; it would have been a disservice to our readers to have Copyright @ 1990 by the American Mathemat restricted the survey in such a way. ical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the In an attempt to bring the information of the earlier surveys States of America. United conducted by the AMS and published in Notices up to date, the The paper used in this journal is acid-free and falls within the guidelines established to ensure AMS published, in the November 1989 Notices, its third survey of permanence and durability. §Most of this publi information taken from journal issues for the subscription years cation was typeset using the TEl( typesetting sys 1984, 1986 and 1988. The third AMS survey includes data on tem. G & B journals. The data for G & B journals was collected in the [Notices of the American Mathematical Society is published ten times a year (January, February, same manner as that for all other journals in the survey.