CALENDAR OF AMS MEETINGS THIS CALENDAR lists all meetings which have been approved by the Council prior to the date this issue of the Notices was sent to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the Ameri· can Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this 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 second announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. 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 meet­ ing. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the office of the Society in Providence. 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 ab­ stracts submitted for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information consult the meeting announcement and the list of organizers of special sessions. MEETING ABSTRACT NUMBER DATE PlACE DEADliNE ISSUE 782 November 14-15, 1980 Knoxville, Tennessee SEPTEMBER 19 November 783 january 7-11, 1981 San Francisco, California OCTOBER 22 january (87th Annual Meeting) 1981 784 March 20-21, 1981 Notre Dame, Indiana 785 April 23-25, 1981 Reno, Nevada 786 May 15-16, 1981 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 787 June 19-20, 1981 Portland, Oregon 788 August 11-21, 1981 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (85th Summer Meeting) january 13-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio {88th Annual Meeting) January 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91st Annual Meeting) january 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) Notices DEADliNES ISSUE NEWS ADVERTISING November 1980 September 15 September 30 January 1981 October 22 November 14 Deadlines for announcements intended for the Special Meetings section are the same as for News. Other Events Sponsored by the Society 1981 ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARS january 5-6 AMS Short Course. Cryptology in Revolution: This issue, p. 516 Mathematics and Models, San Francisco, California january 8 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology This issue, p. 525 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 27, Number 6, October 1980 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Ed Dubinsky, Richard J. Griego, Robion C. Kirby, Arthur P. Mattuck, Susan Montgomery, Barbara L. Osofsky, Everett Pitcher (Chairman) MANAGING EDITOR Lincoln K. Durst ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR QUERIES Hans Samelson SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS 490 MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY Notices is published eight times a Providence, Rhode Island, October 78, 490 year (January, February, April, June, Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 31, 500 August, October, November, and December). Subscription for Vol. 27 Knoxville, Tennessee, November 14, 507 (1980), $22.00 list, $11.00 member. 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Register, 573, 574; Copyright © 1980 by the Employment American Mathematical Society, San Francisco Preregistration and Housing form, Printed in the United States of America. 575, 576 Providence, October 18-19, 1980, Brown University Program for the 780th Meeting The seven hundred eightieth meeting of the witz, Eric Bedford, Melvyn Berger, Ronald R. Coif­ American Mathematical Society will be held at Brown man, Constantine M. Dafermos, Lawrence Craig University, Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday Evans, James M. Greenberg, Jeff Holder, Robert V. and Sunday, October 18-19, 1980. All sessions Kohn, Henry L. Kurland, Oliver McBryan, Frank will be held in Barus-Holley Building, where only Morgan, Alan Newell, Wei-mint Ni, Rodolfo R. Room 166 will be equipped with an overhead pro­ Rosales, Vladimir Scheffer, Maria E. Schonbek, and jector and screen; the other rooms contain built-in Fred Weissler. blackboards, but no overheads. Algebra of analytic functions, CHARLES E. RICKART, Yale University. The speakers will be Invited Addresses Bernard Aupetit, H. Alexander, T. W. Gamelin, Her­ By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour bert Kamowitz, A. G. O'Farrell, Michael Range, Speakers for Eastern Sectional Meetings, there will Stuart J. Sidney, Charles M. Stanton, James Li-Ming be four invited one-hour addresses. Wang, Barnet M. Weinstock, John Wermer, and Wil­ GORO AZUMA YA, Indiana University, Bloom­ liam R. Zame. ington, Exact and serial rings. Mathematical models in neuro and developmen­ WILLIAM E. FULTON, Brown University, Con­ tal biology, JOHN M. RINZEL, National Institute of nectivity of algebraic varieties. Health. The speakers include James A. Anderson, R. B. MELROSE, Massachusetts Institute of Barry Bunow, Stephen Childress, G. Bard Ermen­ Technology, Microlocal methods and strictly pseudo trout, John A. Feroe, Stuart Geman, Eric Grimson, convex domains. Stuart P. Hastings, H. Michael Lacker, Garrett Odell, MICHAEL C. REED, Duke University and New and William C. Troy. York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Scientific computing and numerical analysis, Sciences, Propagation of singularities for semilinear MARTIN H. SCHULTZ, Yale University. The speak­ hyperbolic equations. ers will be Randolph E. Bank, Garrett Birkhoff, Petter Bjorstad, Stanley C. Eisenstat, Joseph E. Fla­ Special Sessions herty, Eugene Isaacson, Donald J. Rose, and Alan By invitation of the same committee, there will Needleman. be eight special sessions of selected twenty-minute papers. Registration Harmonic analysis, RON C. BLEI and STUART The registration desk will be located in the lobby J. SIDNEY, University of Connecticut. The speak­ of the Barus-Holley Building, where participants may ers will be John J. Benedetto, Ron C. Blei, Ronald register from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, R. Coifman, Marjorie G. Hahn, Andrew Marko, Dan and 8:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Registra­ Oberlin, Gilles Pisier, Richard Tolimierie, and Chris­ tion fees for the meeting are $3 for members of the topher C. White. Society, $5 for nonmembers, and $1 for students or History and philosophy of mathematics, ROGER unemployed mathematicians. LEE COOKE, University of Vermont. The speakers include Ali A. AI-Daffa, Lee G. Bowie, Michael Ju­ Accommodations bien, V. Frederick Rickey, S. R. Sinha, Stanley H. Blocks of rooms have been set aside for partici­ Stahl, and Thomas Tymoczko. pants in the following hotels or motels; all, except Representations of Lie groups, ANTHONY the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, are located in KNAPP, Cornell University. The speakers are Louis or close to downtown Providence. Participants Auslander, Larry Baggett, William H. Barker, Brian should make reservations directly with the hotel or Blank, David L. Degeorge, Rebecca A. 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