1994 Steele Prizes Awarded in Minneapolis Looking for a Job Outside Academia page 917 page 948 page 960 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this issue insofar as is possible. Instructions for submission of abstracts can be found in the went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings with the Mathe­ January 1994 issue of the Notices on page 43. Abstracts of papers to be presented at matical Association of America. the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, earlier than that specified below. Meetings ----------------------·----------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 895 October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma Expired October 896 November 11-13, 1994 Richmond, Virginia Expired October 897 t January 4-7, 1995 (101st Annual Meeting) San Francisco, California Expired January 898 * March 4-5, 1995 Hartford, Connecticut December 1 March 899 * March 17-18, 1995 Orlando, Florida December 1 March 900 * March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois January 9 April 901 May 24-26, 1995 Jerusalem, Israel February 9 May (Joint Meeting with the Israeli Mathematical Union) 902 August 6-8, 1995 (97th Summer Meeting) Burlington, Vermont May 18 August 903 October 7-8, 1995 Boston, Massachusetts July 24 October 904 November 3-4, 1995 Kent, Ohio August 15 November November 17-18, 1995 Greensboro, North Carolina August 15 November January 1D-13, 1996 (102nd Annual Meeting) Orlando, Florida March 22-23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa Apri113-14, 1996 New York, New York April19-21, 1996 Baton Rouge, Louisiana October 5-6, 1996 Lawrenceville, New Jersey November 1-3, 1996 Columbia, Missouri January 8-11, 1997 (103rd Annual Meeting) San Diego, California May 2-4, 1997 Detroit, Michigan January 7-10, 1998 (104th Annual Meeting) Baltimore, Maryland March 27-28, 1998 Manhattan, Kansas *Please refer to page 1011 for listing of special sessions. t Please refer to the Table of Contents for further information. Conferences January 2-3, 1995: Short Course on Coding Theory, and Short Course on Knots and Physics, San Francisco, California June 25-July 27, 1995: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington July 9-29, 1995: AMS Summer Institute on Algebraic Geometry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California July 17-August 11, 1995: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics on the Mathematics of Numerical Analysis: Real Number Algorithms, Park City, Utah Other Events Cosponsored by the Society October 8-14, 1994: Symposium on the Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts October 16-18, 1994: Women in Probability Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York November 17-20, 1994: MER Forum Workshop on Preparation for Teaching Mathematics: Issues, Policies and Programs, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana November 27-December 3, 1994: Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Deadlines January Issue February Issue March Issue April Issue Classified Ads* November 8, 1994 December 8, 1994 January 5, 1995 February 2, 1995 News Items November 3, 1994 December 5, 1994 December 30, 1994 January 30, 1995 Meeting Announcements** October 31 , 1994 November 30, 1994 December 27, 1994 January 25, 1995 * Please contact AMS Promotions 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 899 Letters to the Editor 902 Academic Employment 905 1994 AMS Steele Prizes Application Cover Sheet 937 News and Announcements The 1994 Steele Prizes were presented at the Minneapolis Mathfest in August. This year's recipients are Ingrid Daubechies, Louis de Branges, and 945 Funding Information for the Louis Nirenberg. Mathematical Sciences 946 For Your Information 913 International Affairs: Events over the Past Year Spur Debate about the 947 1994 AMS Election Role of the U.S. Mathematical Community in the International Arena 948 Meetings and Conferences of Over the past year, debate about the U.S. National Committee on the AMS Mathematics has rippled through the community. Allyn Jackson examines Stillwater, OK the issues surrounding the controversy and other aspects of the international October 28-29, 948 role of the U.S. mathematics community. Richmond, VA November 11-13, 960 917 Preparing for a Job Outside Academia Stan Benkoski San Francisco, CA January 4-7, 971 With the job outlook for mathematicians remaining less than promising, Mathematical Sciences many on the job market would like to explore the opportunities available to Employment Register, 1002 mathematicians in industry. This article presents practical and philosophical San Francisco Short Courses, advice about getting information on this sector of the job market. 1005 Invited Addresses, Special 921 Education Reform From a National Perspective: The Mathematics Sessions, and Contributed Papers, Community's Investment and Future Hy Bass 1011 How can this country insure lasting, substantive reform in mathematics Joint Summer Research education? This article, based on a speech presented at a calculus Conferences, 1014 workshop, presents an insightful, thought-provoking appraisal of the Summer Research Institute, 1018 problems and potential of the reform movement. AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics, 1019 1021 Winter Meeting of the Canadian FEATURE COLUMNS Mathematical Society 1023 Mathematical Sciences Meetings 927 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin and Conferences This month's column begins with the fifth in the series of George Gratzer's 1030 New Publications Offered by the articles on TEX. Then Raj Markanda reviews the latest version of Mathcad AMS for Windows and Larry Riddle reports on TEMATH, Version 1.5. 1035 Publications of Continuing Interest 934 Inside the AMS 1036 Miscellaneous lvar Stakgold, former SIAM president, has taken the position of head Personal Items, 1036 of the AMS Washington Office, and he is full of ideas for strengthening Deaths, 1036 the presence of mathematics in the nation's capital. Also included in this Visiting Mathematicians, 1036 month's column is a list of non-user-specific electronic addresses for the 1037 New Members and Honorary AMS. Members of the AMS 1040 Stipends for Travel and Study 1063 Classified Advertising 1081 Forms OCTOBER 1994, VOLUME 41, NUMBER 8 897 From the Executive Director ... N~rr•cEs AMS BUSINESS-NOT AS USUAL AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY One of the major tasks that will face the next AMS executive director is insuring that the financial foundation of the Society remains sound during times of rapid and uncertain change. This is the business side of the Society, and it is anything but business EDITORIAL COMMITTEE as usual. Sheldon Axler The current annual operating budget of the AMS is over $21 million. There are Amassa C. Fauntleroy over 250 employees located at five facilities: three in Rhode Island, Mathematical Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) Reviews (MR) in Ann Arbor, and the AMS Washington office. The AMS has a complete Susan J. Friedlander (Forum Editor) in-house publishing operation (acquisition, editorial, composition, typesetting, printing, Carolyn S. 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