Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings an.d conferences approved prior to the date this issue be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the ·Mathe­ and from the headquarters office of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented matical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is particularly true Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. The abstract of meetings to which no numbers have been assigned. Programs of the meetings will deadlines listed below should be carefully reviewed &ince an abstract deadline may appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary announcements of the expire before publication of a first announcement. Note that the deadline for abstracts meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. Abstracts of papers presented at a for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to that specified below. For additional information, consult the meeting announcements the American Mathematical Society in ihe issue corresponding to that of the Notices and the list of special sessions. which contains the program of the meeting, insofar as is possible. Abstracts should Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 879 • March 26-27, 1993 Knoxville, Tennessee Expired March 880 • April9-10, 1993 Salt Lake City, Utah Expired April 881 • April17-18, 1993 Washington, D.C. Expired April 882 • May 20-23, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois February 26 May-June 883 • August15-19, 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia May 18 July-August (96th Summer Meeting) (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) 884 • September 18-19, 1993 Syracuse, New York May 18 September 885 • October 1-3, 1993 Heidelberg, Germany May 18 September (Joint Meeting with the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung e.V.) 886 • October 22-23, 1993 College Station, Texas August4 October 887 • November 6-7,1993 Claremont, California August4 October 888 • January 12-15, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio OCtober 1 December (1 OOth Annual Meeting) 889 • March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky 890 • March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas 891 • April9-10, 1994 Brooklyn, New York 892 * June 16-18, 1994 Eugene, Oregon October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois November 3-4, 1995 Kent, Ohio January 10-13, 1996 Orlando, Florida (102nd Annual Meeting) March 22-23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa * Please refer to page 168 for listing of Special Sessions. Conferences June 7-18, 1993: AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics July 11-30, 1993: AMS Summer Institute on Stochastic Analysis, on Tomography, Impedance Imaging, and Integral Geometry, Mount Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. August 9-13, 1993: AMS Symposium on Mathematics of Computation July 10-August 6, 1993: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the 1943-1993: A Half-Century of Computational Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Washington. Other Events Cosponsored by the Society February 11-16, 1993: Section A (Mathematics) Sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. May 30-June 13,1993: First Caribbean Spring School of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics on Infinite Dimensional Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry, Operator Algebras, and Particle Physics, Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe. Cosponsored by the Societe Mathematique de France. Deadlines April Issue May-June Issue July-August Issue September Issue Classified Ads* February 24, 1993 April 1 , 1993 June 24, 1993 July 29, 1993 News Items February 19, 1993 March 19, 1993 June 8, 1993 July 15, 1993 Meeting Announcements** February 22, 1993 March 23, 1993 June 14, 1993 July 19, 1993 * 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. ... l I OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENTS ARTICLES 99 Letters to the Editor 140 Forum 103 Special Issue on Mathematics in the Former Soviet Union 153 News and Announcements This issue of the Notices contains several articles focusing on the situation 157 Funding Information for the for mathematics and mathematicians in the former Soviet Union. With Mathematical Sciences contributions from a range of authors, these articles provide information about how the mathematical community is surviving in the midst of the 159 1993 AMS Elections political changes there as well as suggestions for ways to help out. 161 Meetings and Conferences of the AMS Knoxville, TN FEATURE COLUMNS March 26-27, 161 Salt Lake City, UT Apri/9-10, 164 143 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin Washington, DC "Using programs to teach logic to computer scientists" is the self-explanatory Apri/17-18, 166 title of this month's feature article by Doug Goldson and Steve Reeves. This Invited Speakers, 168 is followed by an article on ~-15reX by George Gratzer and two software Joint Summer Research reviews: R.W.R. Darling writes about FrameMaker 3.0, and Roger Pinkham Conferences in the Mathematical tries out MLAB. Sciences, 172 1993 Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics, 174 1993 Summer Research Institute, 175 1993 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, 176 1993 Symposium, Mathematics of Computation, 177 178 Mathematical Sciences Meetings and Conferences 188 New Publications Offered by the AMS 193 Miscellaneous Personal Items, 193 Deaths, 193 Visiting Mathematicians Supplementary List, 193 194 New Members of the AMS 199 Classified Advertising 211 Forms FEBRUARY 1993, VOLUME 40, NUMBER 2 97 ............................................................... lillllil!l!li!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiiii!IIJ"" From the Executive Director ... AMS-fSU AID FUND AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY This issue of the Notices features a number of articles about mathematics and mathematicians in the former Soviet Union (fSU). These articles provide perspectives on the history of mathematics in the fSU, traditions that popularized mathematics, the character of mathematics education, and the economic and political influences on EDITORIAL COMMITTEE mathematics in the fSU. They give some insight into the current situation and speculate Michael G. Crandall on the future of mathematics in the fSU. One of the articles describes various assistance Amassa Fauntleroy efforts, including details of the assistance from the AMS and the AMS-fSU Aid Fund. Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) Carolyn S. Gordon (Forum Editor) In the few months since the establishment of the AMS-fSU Aid Fund and a D. J. Lewis call for help, the response from the AMS membership has been outstanding. The. L. Ridgway Scott (Letters Editor) Fund was established to initiate support for a four-point plan featuring small grants Robert E. L. Turner to individuals, mathematical literature for libraries, assistance for new mathematics institutions, and independent group efforts and other special needs (such as workshops MANAGING EDITOR and exchanges). The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation issued a challenge grant of $30,000 John S. Bradley to the AMS, matching dollar-for-dollar contributions by individuals. Following the generous response from the mathematics community, the Sloan Foundation increased ASSOCIATE EDITORS their challenge grant to $100,000. At this writing, individuals have contributed nearly Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles $80,000 for support of mathematics and mathematicians in the fSU. In addition, the SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Soros Foundation will contribute $100,000 toward the AMS-fSU small-grant effort. Subscription prices for Volume 40 (1993) are $139 list; $111 institutional member; $83 individ­ The AMS-fSU Aid Fund has always been envisioned as an emergency, short-term ual member. 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