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- ---- --- ------- Logan Meeting (October 10-11)- Page 775 Charlotte Meeting (October 17-18)- Page 783 Denton Meeting (October 31-November 1)-Page 791 Notices of the American Mathem.atical Society October 1986, Issue 250 Volume 33, Number 5, Pages 705-888 Providence, Rhode Island USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings THIS CALENDAR lists all meetings which have been approved by the Council prior to the date this issue of Noti~es was sent to the press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of Amer•~a and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to ~hange; th~s is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Programs of the meetings Will _appear In the issues indicated below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will have appeared 1n earher 1ssues. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarter's office of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island. on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information. consult the meeting announcements and the list of organizers of special sessions. ABSTRACT MEETING# DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 828 October 1G-11, 1986 Logan, Utah EXPIRED October 829 October 17-18, 1986 Charlotte, North Carolina EXPIRED October 830 October 31-November 1, Denton, Texas EXPIRED October 1986 831 January 21-24, 1987 San Antonio, Texas October 15 January (93rd Annual Meeting)* 832 March 26-28, 1987 Honolulu, Hawaii February 2 February 833 April 3-4, 1987 Kent, Ohio February 4 February 834 April 25-26, 1987 Newark, New Jersey February 6 February 835 June 18-20, 1987 Tacoma, Washington April17 June January 6-9, 1988 Atlanta, Georgia (94th Annual Meeting) August 8-12, 1988 Providence, Rhode Island (AMS Centennial Celebration) January 11-14, 1989 Phoenix, Arizona (95th Annual Meeting) * Preregistration/Housing deadline is November 15. DEADLINES Advertising (Nov. 1986 Issue) Oct. 1. 1986 (Jan. 1987 Issue) Nov. 12. 1986 (Feb. 1987 Issue) Feb. 18. 1987 News/SMIC (Nov. 1986 Issue) Sept. 15. 1986 (Jan. 1987 Issue) Oct. 27. 1986 (Feb. 1987 Issue) Feb. 2. 1987 Other Events Sponsored by the Society January 2G-22, 1987, AMS Short Course: The Moment Problem, San Antonio, Texas. February 18, 1987, Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology: Models in Population Biology, Chicago, Illinois. May 12-16, 1987, Symposium on the Mathematical Heritage of Hermann Weyl, location to be announced. June 14-July 25, 1987, Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. July 12-August 15, 1987, Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. July 16-24, 1987, Summer Research Institute on Theta Functions, location to be announced. 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Second class postage paid at Providence, Rl and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change notices to Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Membership and Sales Department. American Mathematical Society. P. 0. Box 6248. Providence. Rl 02940.) Publication here of the Society's street address. and the other information in brackets above. is a technical requirement of the U. S. Postal Service. All correspondence should be mailed to the Post Office Box. NOT the street address. Members are strongly urged to notify the Society themselves of address changes. since reliance on the postal service change-of-address forms is liable to cause delays in processing such requests in the AMS office. Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 33, Number 5, October 1986 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Paul F. Baum. Ralph P. Boas Raymond L. Johnson. Mary Ellen Rudin Steven H. Weintraub. Daniel Zelinsky Everett Pitcher (Chairman) 707 Physical and Mathematical Applications of MANAGING EDITOR Gauge Theories James A. Voytuk Clifford H. Taubes ASSOCIATE EDITORS 716 National Science Week Stuart Antman. Queries 735 International Congress of Mathematicians Hans Samelson. Queries 1986 Ronald L. Graham. Special Articles 738 The University Research Initiative SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION 741 Mathematical Text Processing Subscription prices for Volume 33 (1986) 752 Washington Outlook are $85 list; $68 institutional member: 754 News and Announcements $51 individual member. (The subscription price for members is included in the 759 NSF News&. Reports annual dues.) A late charge of 10% of 763 For Your Information the subscription price will be imposed 768 Letters to the Editor upon orders received from nonmembers 772 1986 AMS Elections after January 1 of the subscription year. 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Mailer Notices: highlights Clifford Taubes, in an expository article, explores the various facets of gauge theory as it pertains to pure mathematics with new insight into 4-manifold struc ture, and as it pertains to mathematical physics with the success of explaining Weak interactions and the hope of applying the theory to the Strong force. Page 707. National Science Week Symposium, "Mathematics: The Unifying Thread in Science," centers on the role played by mathematics in the Nobel Prize work of three scientists: Allan M. Cormack, Herbert A. Hauptman, and Steven Weinberg. Page 716. International Congress of Mathematicians 1986 was a major scientific success. The meeting was highlighted by the presentation of the Fields Medals to Simon Donaldson, Gerd Faltings, and Michael Freedman, and by the presentation of the Nevanlinna Prize to Leslie Valiant. Page 735. The University Research Initiative awards were made this summer by the Department of Defense with mathematics receiving nine grants, a significant share of the eighty-six grants funded under this program. The program is designed to im prove university research capability and to strengthen graduate and undergraduate education. Page 738. Richard S. Palais, in his regular column on text processing, reviews the Mac intosh world of technical word processing software. He responds to readers by summarizing the comments he has received on the best way to do mathematical word processing and by explaining some of the techni<;al details behind font design. Page 741. Kenneth