OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 1992 Cole Prize in Algebra page 275 1992 Award for Distinguished Public Service page 278 1992 Citation for Public Service page 281 National Science Foundation Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1993 page 286 AMS Task Force on Employment Report to the Mathematical Community, Part 1: Academic Hiring Survey 1991-1992 page 311 Bethlehem Meeting (April 11-12) page 326 APRIL 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 4 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this is possible. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available issue went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarters office of the So­ Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The ciety. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is par­ headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline ticularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been assigned. Programs of given below for the meeting. The abstract deadlines listed below should be care­ the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary fully reviewed since an abstract deadline may expire before publication of a first announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. Abstracts of announcement. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presenta­ papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the joumal Abstracts tion at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue correspond­ additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the list of special ing to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, insofar as sessions. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 874 • April 11-12, 1992 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Expired April 875 • June 29-July 1, 1992 Cambridge, England Expired May-June (Joint Meeting with the London Mathematical Society) 876 • October 3D-November 1, 1992 Dayton, Ohio August 3 October 877 November 7-November 8, 1992 Los Angeles,California August 3 October 878 • January 13-16, 1993 San Antonio, Texas October 8 December (99th Annual Meeting) 879 March 26-27, 1993 Knoxville, Tennessee January 5 March 880 • April 9-10, 1993 Salt Lake City, Utah January 29 April 881 • April17-18, 1993 Washington, D.C. January 29 April 882 May 21-22, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois February 26 May-June 883 • August 15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia May 18 July-August (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) October 22-23, 1993 College Station, Texas January 12-15, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio (1 DOth Annual Meeting) March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma January 25-28, 1995 Denver, Colorado (101st Annual Meeting) March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois January 10-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (1 02nd Annual Meeting) • Please refer to page 337 for listing of Special Sessions. Conferences June 13-July 24, 1992: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the July 26-August 1, 1992: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematical Sciences, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mathematics, Exploiting symmetry in applied and numerical Massachusetts. analysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. July 6-24, 1992: AMS Summer Research Institute on Quadratic forms and division algebra,s: Connections with algebraic K-theory and algebraic geometry, University of California, Santa Barbara. Deadlines July/August Issue September Issue October Issue November Issue Classified Ads* June 16, 1992 July 30, 1992 August 27, 1992 September 28, 1992 News Items June 8, 1992 July 16, 1992 August 13, 1992 September 21, 1992 Meeting Announcements** June 11 , 1992 July 20, 1992 August 17, 1992 September 24, 1992 * 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. ··············~·········--······-·-····- ·····················--··-······-······ ........................................... , I OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ARTICLES DEPARTMENTS 275 1992 Cole Prize in Algebra 300 Forum The twenty-fourth Cole Prize was awarded. jointly to Karl Rubin of Ohio 320 News and Announcements State University and Paul Vojta of the University of California at the Society's ninety-eighth Annual Meeting in Baltimore. 326 Meetings and Conferences of theAMS 278 1992 Award for Distinguished Public Service Bethlehem, PA The second Award for Distinguished Public Service was presented to Apri/11-12, 326 Harvey B. Keynes of the University of Minnesota for his multifaceted efforts Invited Speakers, 337 to revitalize mathematics education, especially for young people. 1992 Summer Seminar in Applied 281 1992 Citation for Public Service Mathematics, 341 The 1992 Citation for Public Service award was presented to Marcia 342 Mathematical Sciences Meetings P. Sward for her contributions toward establishing and directing the and Conferences Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) from its inception in the fall 353 New AMS Publications of 1985 until August 1989. 354 AMS Reports and 283 Alberto P. Calderon Receives National Medal of Science Communications Alberto P. Calderon, University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Recent Appointments, 354 University of Chicago, was presented the National Medal of Science on Officers of the Society, 357 September 16, 1991. A biographical sketch of Calderon is included along 358 Backlog of Research Journals with commentary on his research. 361 New Members of the AMS 286 The NSF Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1993 The NSF budget request for 1993 contains flat funding for disciplinary 366 Classified Advertising research in mathematics and a hefty increase for several cross-disciplinary 373 Forms initiatives. Allyn Jackson reports on some of the strong reactions from the mathematics community. Also included is budget information prepared by NSF staff for the mathematics division, some computer science divisions, and the education directorate. 298 Remarks of Walter E. Massey, Director of the National Science Foundation This article contains excerpts of an address delivered by Walter E. Massey at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore. FEATURE COLUMNS 303 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin This month a team of researchers at the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University describe dstoo/, a dynamical system toolkit developed at Cornell. Following the article, Jim Northrup reviews the program Grapher. 311 Inside the AMS Donald E. McClure presents an analysis of data on 1991-1992 academic hiring gathered in a survey conducted for the AMS Task Force on Employment. The article represents the first part of the Task Force's report to the mathematical community on the current employment situation. 317 Washington Outlook Lisa A. Thompson examines the mathematical sciences in the FY 1993 Budget. APRIL 1992, VOLUME 39, NUMBER 4 273 • m•••••Ooo•oo•••omm ommmmm .. om .. OOOOOOOOOmOOOOOO .. moommmOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO .... mo ommm,ooom·-·-·----------- From the Executive Director ... WHAT IS THE MESSAGE? Many pages of this issue of the Notices are devoted to reporting and commenting AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY on federal funding of mathematics, particularly on the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget request for fiscal year 1993. There has to be serious concern about the amount requested for big project development, and at what cost to basic science, as well as the amount slated for directed research in pursuit of specific goals and objec­ tives. Particularly alarming to mathematics is the FY93 request from the Division of EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Mathematical Sciences at NSF, which contains zero increment in undirected research Michael G. Crandall support for the mathematical sciences. Is there a message in this request about the Amassa Fauntleroy future of federal funding of science? of mathematics? Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) Carolyn S. Gordon (Forum Editor) This column (December 1991) reported on a mood in federal circles that the D. J. Lewis government is funding enough basic, undirected research. This mood is related to L. Ridgway Scott (Letters Editor) efforts to encourage technological solutions to societal problems and technological Robert E. L. Turner innovation for economic competitiveness. Hence, the federal government is increas­ ingly directing civilian research toward solving the nation's societal and economic MANAGING EDITOR woes. Since the majority of undirected research is conducted in academia, the aca­ John S. Bradley demic community is especially affected by this trend. In particular, some believe that academic researchers have not provided the leadership and initiative necessary to fuel ASSOCIATE EDITORS economic growth and address serious societal issues. This view has been expressed Ronald L. Graham, Special Articles Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles specifically toward academic mathematics faculty. 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