Notices of the American Mathematical Society April 1981, Issue 209 Volume 28, Number 3, Pages 217- 296 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 the Notices was sent to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the Ameri· 'an 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· lng. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the offi'e of the Society in Providence. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Soc:iety in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for ab· strKts 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 787 June 19-20, 1981 Portland, Oregon APRIL 20 June 788 August 17-21, 1981 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania JUNE 1 August (85th Summer Meeting) October 17-18, 1981 Amherst, Massachusetts November 6-7, 1981 Austin, Texas january 13-17, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio (88th Annual Meeting) April 16-17, 1982 Madison, Wisconsin August 23-27, 1982 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (86th Summer Meeting) january 5-9, 1983 Denver, Colorado (89th Annual Meeting) January 25-29, 1984 Louisville, Kentucky (90th Annual Meeting) January 9-13, 1985 Anaheim, California (91 st Annual Meeting) january 21-25, 1987 San Antonio, Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) ADDITIONAL DEADLINES JUNE ISSUE AUGUST ISSUE Advertising April 29 June 17 News and Special Meetings April 13 June 1 OTHER EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY June 29-July 11, AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar on Fluid-Dynamical Problems in Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, This issue, page 232 July 20-August 7, AMS Summer Institute on Singularities, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, This issue, page 232 August 15-16, AMS Short Course: Mathematics of Networks, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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Telephone 401-272-9500. 285 ADVERTISEMENTS Second class postage paid at 292 REGISTRATION FORMS Providence, Rl, and additional mailing offices. Copyright © 1981 by the 1981 Summer Applicants List, 292, 293; American Mathematical Society, Pittsburgh Preregistration and Housing Printed in the United States of America. Reservation Forms, 295, 296 Reno, April 24-25, 1981, University of Nevada Program for the 785th Meeting The seven hundred eighty-fifth meeting of the Random permutations, GERALD W. KIMBLE, American Mathematical Society will be held at the University of Nevada, Reno. The speakers will be University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, on Friday and Solomon W. Golomb, Derrick H. Lehmer, and Saturday, April 24-25, 1981. The meeting will be Harald G. Niederreiter. held in conjunction with a meeting of the Northern Stochastic processes, ALAN CARY KRINIK, California Section of the Society for Industrial and University of Nevada, Reno. The speakers will be Applied Mathematics (SIAM). All sessions will be David j. Aldous, Bruce Walker Atkinson, J. R. Blum, held at the Scrugham Engineering and Mines Building. Robert M. Blumenthal, Michael D. Brennan, Richard Invited Addresses Andrew Holley, james P. Kelsh, Alan Cary Krinik, Marc Mangel, M. M. Rao, james B. Robertson, Z. R. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Pop-Stojanovic, and David S. Shucker. Speakers for Far Western Sectional Meetings, there will be two invited one-hour addresses. The speakers, Contributed Papers times, and titles of their talks are as follows: There will be sessions for contributed ten-minute ROBERT E. GREENE, University of California, papers on Friday and Saturday. Late papers will be Los Angeles, 1:00 p.m. Friday, Geometric properties accepted for presentation at the meeting, but will not of strongly pseudo-convex domains. appear in the printed program. CALVIN H. WILCOX, University of Utah, 1:15 p.m. Saturday, The method of asymptotic wave SIAM Program functions in scattering theory. The SIAM program will include an hour address by Professors GORDON LATIA and PETER C. C. Special Sessions WANG, entitled A mathematical look at micro­ By invitation of the same committee, there will processors and some of their uses. be five special sessions of selected papers. The topics of these special sessions, the names of the organizers, Registration and the lists of speakers are as follows: The registration area will be on the first floor of Potential theory, MAYNARD G. ARSOVE, Uni· the Scrugham Engineering and Mines Building. Reg­ versity of Washington. The speakers will be Thomas istration on Friday will be from 1:00 p.m. until E. Armstrong, Maynard G. Arsove, Bill Cohn, Paul 3:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until M. Gauthier, Moses Glasner, Myron Goldstein, Kohur noon and from 1 :00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. The reg­ N. Gowrisankaran, Howard L. jackson, Guy johnson, Jr., Peter A. Loeb, and Wellington H. Ow. istration fees will be $6 for members of AMS or C*-algebras, BRUCE E. BLACKADAR, University SIAM, $8 for nonmembers, and $2 for students and of Nevada, Reno. The speakers will be Bruce E. unemployed mathematicians.