Notices of the American Mathematical Society November 1985, Issue 244 Volume 32, Number 6, Pages 737- 872 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 the press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American 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 supplementary 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 meeting. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarters office of the Society. 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 abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information consult the meeting announcements and the list of organizers of special sessions. ABSTRACT MEETING# DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 825 January 7-11. 1986 New Orleans. Louisiana EXPIRED January (92nd Annual Meeting) 826 April 11-12. 1986 Indianapolis. Indiana February 5 March 827 May 3-4. 1986 Baltimore. Maryland February 10 March August 3-11. 1986 Berkeley. California AprilS (International Congress of Mathematicians) October 1o-11. 1986 Logan, Utah October 31-November 1. Denton. Texas 1986 January 21-25. 1987 San Antonio. Texas (93rd Annual Meeting) January 6-11. 1988 Atlanta. Georgia (94th Annual Meeting) August 8-12. 1988 Providence. Rhode Island (AMS Centennial Celebration) January 11-15. 1989 Phoenix, Arizona (95th Annual Meeting) DEADLINES: Advertising (January 1986 Issue) Nov. 14, 1985 (March 1986 Issue) Feb. 19, 1986 News/Special Meetings (January 1986 Issue) Oct. 28, 1985 (March 1986 Issue) Feb. 7, 1986 Other Events Sponsored by the Society January 5-6. 1986. AMS Short Course: Approximation Theory, New Orleans. Louisiana. Details: January issue. June 22-August 2. 1986. Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences. University of California. Santa Cruz. California. Details: October issue and this issue. July 7-25. 1986. AMS Summer Research Institute on Representations of Finite Groups and Related Topics. California location to be announced. Details: January issue. Suscribers' changes of address should be reported well in advance to avoid disruption of service: address labels are prepared four to six weeks in advance of the date of mailing. Requests for a change of address should always include the member or subscriber code and preferably a copy of the entire mailing label. Members are reminded that U. S. Postal Service change-of-address forms are not adequate for this purpose, since they make no provision for several important items of information which are essential for the AMS records. Suitable forms are published from time to time in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society (e.g. March 1985, page 325). Send change of address notices to the Society at Post Office Box 6248. Providence. Rl 02940. (Notices of the American Mathematical Society is published seven times a year (January, March. June, August, October, November, December) by the American Mathematical Society at 201 Charles Street, Providence. Rl 02904. Second class postage paid at Providence, Rl and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address change notices to Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Membership and Sales Department, American Mathematical Society, P. 0. Box 6248, Providence. Rl 02940.] Publication here of the Society's street address, and the other information in brackets above, is a technical requirement of the U. S. Postal Service. All correspondence should be mailed to the Post Office Box, NOT the street address. Members are strongly urged to notify the Society themselves of address changes, since reliance on the postal service chanll:e-of-address forms is liable to cause delays in processing such requests in the AMS office. Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 32, Number 6, November 1985 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Paul F. Baum, Ralph P. Boas Raymond L. Johnson. Mary Ellen Rudin 739 Julia Bowman Robinson Steven H. Weintraub. Daniel Zelinsky Everett Pitcher (Chairman) 7 43 Future Directions in Computational MANAGING EDITOR Mathematics, Algorithms, and Scientific James A. Voytuk Software ASSOCIATE EDITORS 758 29th Annual AMS Survey Stuart Antman. Queries Faculty Salaries. Tenure. Women. 758: Salaries Hans Samelson. Queries Ronald L. Graham. Special Articles of New Doctorates. 763: 1985 Survey of New SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Doctorates. 768; Fifteen Year Retrospective Subscription prices for Volume 32 on Academic Salaries. 772; Doctoral Degrees (1985) are $65 list; $52 institutional Conferred in 1984-1985. 774; (1983-1984 member; $39 individual member. (The subscription price for members is Supplement. 787) included in the annual dues.) A late 788 News and Announcements charge of 10% of the subscription price 791 Washington Outlook will be imposed upon orders received from nonmembers after January 1 of the 793 News from Washington subscription year. Subscribers outside 795 Letters to the Editor the United States and India must pay a postage surtharge of $5; subscribers in 798 Queries India must pay a postage surcharge of 800 Future Meetings of the Society for AMS $15. Subscriptions and orders New Orleans. January 7-11. 800; Amendments publications should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, P.O. to the Bylaws. 803: Indianapolis. April11-12. Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence. Rl 804: Baltimore. May 3-4. 805; Invited prepaid. 02901. All orders must be Speaker and Special Sessions. 807 ADVERTISING & INQUIRIES Summer Research Conference Series The Notices publishes situations 809 Joint wanted and classified advertising, and 810 Special Meetings display adv.ertising for publishers and 814 New AMS Publications academic or scientific organizatons. Requests for information: 818 Miscellaneous Advertising: Wahlene Siconio Personal Items. 818: Deaths. 818: Visiting Change of address or subscriptions: Mathematicians (Supplementary List). Eileen Linnane Book order number 800-556-7774. 818; Application Deadlines. 820 CORRESPONDENCE. including 822 AMS Reports and Communications changes of address should be sent to Bylaws of the AMS. 822: Funds. 827: Officers American Mathematical Society, P.O. and Lecturers of the Society. 834 Box 6248, Providence. Rl 02940. Second class postage paid at Providence. 836 Advertisements Rl. and additional mailing offices. 864 Preregistration Forms Copyright © 1985 by the American Employment Register. 864, 865, 866 Mathematical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. New Orleans MAA Minicourses. 867 The paper used in this journal is acid-free New Orleans Preregistration and Housing. and falls within the guidelines established 869, 870 to ensure permanence and durability. Julia Bowman Robinson Julia Bowman Robinson 1919-1985 Julia Robinson was a remarkable person. Within The seventies brought recognition, honorary hours of her death on July 90, Everett Pitcher degrees, an invitation to give the colloquium called to ask if we could prepare "a personal lectures, election to the National Academy; but appreciation" of her to appear in the Notices. This none of these went to her head. She remained is the result. always the same thoughtful, levelheaded, and Pitcher explained that Robinson was only the considerate person who knew what she wanted third person to die while an active member and usually got her way. of the AMS Council; the death of a retiring Things were moving fast in the eighties. She president was unprecedented. I undertook to became president of the AMS and got a MacArthur solicit short contributions from various people who prize fellowship. She took both of these honors in knew her well, and to consult with her husband her stride. She was looking forward to returning Raphael Robinson and her sister Constance Reid to research as soon as her term as president to determine whether these contributions could expired, and it is a great pity that she was not be effectively combined to convey some personal given that chance. It was during the AMS meeting sense of Julia, leaving an account of her work for a in Eugene, over which she was presiding, that later occasion. Twelve short pieces came in. Reid she learned that she had leukemia. She will be arranged them in roughly chronological order of long remembered for her devotion to mathematics content, and made minor editorial suggestions and for her sterling character as well as for her primarily to shorten some and to eliminate achievements. repetitions. We hope readers can get some feeling for the human side of the mathematician who Elizabeth Scott served as AMS President during 1989 and 1984. Julia Robinson and I were graduate students Leon Henkin together at Berkeley. During World War II we University of California, also did a lot of heavy computing in a large group Berkeley organized by Jerzy Neyman. After the war we were glad to return to our studies and research, I D. H. and Emma Lehmer to astronomy and Julie to mathematics, but there We knew Julia Robinson first in the early forties was still overlapping in statistics. when she worked at the Statistical Laboratory Julie was by then married to Raphael Robinson, in Berkeley during the Second World War. We who had an appointment in mathematics; a admired her, not only for her mathematical University rule made it quite difficult for the ability, but also for the steadfast way in which mathematics department to employ both of them.