OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY Young Scientists' Network Advocacy and an Electronic Newsletter Ease New Doctorates' Job Search Woes page 462 DeKalb Meeting (M?Y 20-23) page 481 MAY/JUNE 1993, VOLUME 40, NUMBER 5 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 issue should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical mathematics and from the headquarters office of the Society. Abstracts of papers to Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. Abstracts of papers be presented at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, insofar as is possible. Abstracts usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. Meetings ······R ••••*••asl¥1+1~ 11-1-m••• Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 882 t May 2G-23, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois Expired May-June 883 t August 15-19, 1993 (96th Summer Meeting) Vancouver, British Columbia May 18 July-August (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) 884 t September 18-19, 1993 Syracuse, New York May 18 September 885 t October 1- 3, 1993 Heidelberg, Germany June 17tt 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 August 4 October 888 • December 1--4, 1993 Merida, Yucatan , Mexico August 4 November (Joint Meeting with the Sociedad Matematica Mexicana) 889 • January 12-15, 1994 (100th Annual Meeting) Cincinnati, Ohio October 1 December March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas April 9-10, 1994 Brooklyn, New York June 16-18, 1994 Eugene, Oregon August 15-17, 1994 (97th Summer Meeting) Minneapolis, Minnesota October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma November 11-13, 1994 Richmond, Virginia January 4-7, 1995 (101st Annual Meeting) San Francisco, California March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois November 3--4, 1995 Kent, Ohio January 1G-13 , 1996 (1 02nd Annual Meeting) Orlando, Florida March 22- 23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa • Please refer to page 499 for listing of Special Sessions. t Please refer to the Table of Contents for further information. tt This date is later than previously published. Conferences 1'*'' tf''' ¢t&IM """"" 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 June 23, 1993: Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in 1943--1993: A Half-Century of Computational Mathematics, Biology on Theories for the Evolution of Haploid-Diploid Life Cycles, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Snowbird, Utah. July 1G-August 6, 1993: Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Other Events Cosponsored by the Society May 3o-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. July 11-15, 1993: Second World Congress on Neural Networks, Portland, Oregon. October 15-17, 1993: Second International Conference on Ordinal Data Analysis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Cosponsored by the University of Massachusetts, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, and the Classification Societies of North America and Germany. Deadlines September Issue October Issue November Issue December Issue Classified Ads* July 29, 1993 September 2, 1993 September 30, 1993 November 11 , 1993 News Items July 15, 1993 August 20, 1993 September 20, 1993 October28, 1993 Meeting Announcements•• July 19, 1993 August 20, 1993 September 23, 1993 November 2, 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. OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENTS ARTICLES 459 Letters to the Editor 472 News and Announcements 462 Young Scientists' Network Advocacy and an Electronic Newsletter Ease 478 Funding Information for the New Doctorates' Job Search Woes Mathematical Sciences The Young Scientists' Network began when a physics postdoc realized that 479 For Your Information he and his colleagues faced a far worse job market than they had expected. Setting out to dispel the "myth" of a scientist shortage, he drew attention to 481 Meetings and Conferences of the plight of young scientists in the job market and started an electronic the AMS newsletter that's now mailed out to 2000 subscribers all over the world. Allyn DeKalb, IL Jackson reports on the progress of this fledgling organization. May 2~23, 481 Vancouver, British Columbia August 15-19, 494 FEATURE COLUMNS Syracuse, NY September 18-19, 495 Heidelberg, Germany 464 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin October 1-3, 497 Two reviews on the preparation of mathematical manuscripts make up this Invited Addresses and Special month's column. First, John Casti looks at DVIWindo, a Windows-based Sessions, 499 screen previewer, and DVIPSONE, a printer driver for TeX, setting his review Call for Topics, 502 in a more general discussion of TeX-fonts. David Hartz then reports on the 504 Mathematical Sciences Meetings latest version of MathType, Version 3.0. and Conferences 516 New Publications Offered by the 471 Inside the AMS AMS This month's column includes a summary of some new e-MATH initiatives 523 AMS Reports and for 1993: preprint services and an on-line version of CMP. Communications Recent Appointments, 523 Report of Council Meeting, 523 529 Miscellaneous Personal Items, 529 Deaths, 529 530 Visiting Mathematicians 531 New Members of the AMS 540 Classified Advertising 553 Forms MAY/JUNE 1993, VOLUME 40, NUMBER 5 457 From the Executive Director ... FURTHERING RESEARCH The principal purpose of the AMS is the furtherance of mathematical research and AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY scholarship. This is the mission of the Society, consistent with its founding in 1888 and specifically expressed in its articles of incorporation. As an organization, the Society has a responsibility to design its direction and activities to be accountable to this mission. How does the Society meet this responsibility? What are the goals and the specific activities that further research and scholarship? EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Individuals advance mathematical research and scholarship. Therefore the Society Sheldon Axler Amassa C. Fauntleroy should undertake activities that create an environment in which individuals can advance Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) mathematical knowledge and a culture that nurtures and encourages the development Susan J. Friedlander (Forum Editor) of individual talent. Carolyn S. Gordon Traditionally, the activities of the Society in support of its mission have revolved Carl R. Riehm around the publication of mathematical research and the sponsorship and organization of L. Ridgway Scott (Letters Editor) meetings and conferences. The original "call to mathematicians" establishing the Society MANAGING EDITOR was a request to organize meetings; shortly thereafter, publications of the presentations John S. Bradley and events of these meetings led to the publication program of the Society. Over time the mf!thematics community has looked to the Society for various sorts of information ASSOCIATE EDITORS about the mathematical sciences. The direction and activities of the Society, while Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles expanding considerably in volume, have remained basically the same. The Society has ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR supported the furtherance of mathematical research and scholarship primarily through Allyn Jackson the communication of research mathematics. 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