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 cl America and the American Mathematical Society. Abstracts of papers be presented at the meeting must be recalved at the headquarters of the Society in presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the joumal Abstracts of papers Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note presented to the American Mathematical Society I~ th~ issue co~respon_dlng to that of that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is the Notices which contains the program of the maeting, msofar as IS possible. Abstracts usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. Meetings -----·----- Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 880 * April9-10, 1993 Salt Lake City, Utah Expired April 881 * April17-18, 1993 Washington, D.C. Expired April 882 * May 2Q-23, 1993 DeKalb, Illinois Expired May-June 883 * August 15-19, 1993 (96th Summer Meeting) Vancouver, British Columbia May18 July-August (Joint Meeting with the Canadian Mathematical Society) 884 * September 18-19, 1993 Syracuse, New York May18 September 885 * October 1-3, 1993 Heidelberg, Germany May18 September (Joint Meeting with the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung e.V.) 886 * October 22-23, 1993 College Station, Texas August4 October 887 * November6-7,1993 Claremont, California August4 October January 12-15, 1994 (100th Annual Meeting) Cincinnati, Ohio October1 December March 18-19, 1994 · Lexington, Kentucky March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas April 9-1 0, 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 March 24-25, 1995 Chicago, Illinois November 3-4, 1995 Kent, Ohio January 1Q-13, 1996 (102nd Annual Meeting) Orlando, Florida March 22-23, 1996 Iowa City, Iowa *Please refer to page 267 for listing of Special Sessions. Conferences June 7-18, 1993: ~5-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 Ufe Cycles, UniVersity of British Co!umbia, Vancouver, Canada. Snowbird, Utah. July 1Q-August 6, 1993: Joint summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, UniVersity of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Other Events Cosponsored by the Society ·-~---------····--·-·-··--·- May 3Q-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 NetworlaJ, 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 May-June Issue July-A~ust Issue September Issue October Issue Classified Ads• April 1, 1993 June 24, 1993 July 29, 1993 • September 2, 1993 · News Items March 19, 1993 June 8, 1993 July 15, 1993 August 20, 1993 Meeting Announ~ments** March 23, 1993 June 14, 1993 July 19, 1993 August 20, 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 219 Letters to the Editor 243 News and Announcements 221. 1992 Steele Prizes 247 Meetings and Conferences of The 1992 Steele Prizes were awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in theAMS San Antonio to Jacques Dixmier for expository writing, to James Glimm for Knoxville, TN research work of fundamental importance, and to Peter 0. Lax for the career March 26-27, 247 award. Salt Lake City, UT April 9-10, 259 226 1993 Award for Distinguished Public Service Washington, DC Apri/17-18, 262 The third Award for Distinguished Public Service was presented at the Joint DeKalb,IL Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio to I. M. Singer of the Massachusetts May 20-23, 265 Institute of Technology in recognition of his outstanding contributions to his Invited Speakers and Special profession, to science more broadly, and to the public good. Sessions, 267 1993 Summer Seminar in Applied 229 1be 1993 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize Mathematics, 271 the 1993 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics was awarded at the Joint 1993 Summer Research Institute, Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio to. Lai-Sang Young for her work on 272 statistical (or ergodic) properties of dynamical systems. 1993 Symposium on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology, 273 231 Joint Mathematics Meetings In San Antonio 1993 Symposium, Mathematics of The January Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio featured. some Computation, 274 excellent mathematical talks and lively social In addition, were events. many 275 Mathematical Sciences Meetings discussing the bleak job market and the recommendations of the Council and Conferences and the MAA Board of Govemors to move the 1995 Joint Meetings from Denver. Allyn Jackson describes some of the main events. 288 New Publications Offered by the AMS 294 AMS Reports and FEATURE COLUMNS· Communications Recent Appointments, 294 236 Computers and Mathematics Keith Devlin 297 New Members of the AMS Two reviews make up this month's column. Ira Gessel looks at the 300 Classified Advertising Macintosh version of Maple V, and Marvin Margolis reports on the Student Edition of Mlnitab. · 311 Forms 242 Inside the AMS A description of the AMS' Sponsored Membership Program is provided, along with some information about a new reciprocity agreement with the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians. MARCH 1993, VOLUME 40, NUMBER 3 217 -·-···-··············-·····--·--------------------r--------,-- From the Executive Director ... PUBLISHING ROLE If one attempts to capture, in a single phras~. the activities of the Society, AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY it might be "communicating mathematics". This is done primarily through the publishing of mathematical books and journals. Indeed, publishing accounts for approximately 70%, in fiscal terms, of all Society activities, and the AMS is one of a small number of scholarly publishers that maintains a complete in-house publishing operation: editing, design and art work, composition, typesetting, EDITORIAL COMMmEE printing, warehousing, and distribution. A major part of the remaining activities Michael G. Crandall of the Society also comes under the general rubric of"communicating mathemat­ Amassa Fauntleroy Robert M. Fossum (Chairman) ics". These activities include holding meetings and conferences, advocating for Carolyn S. Gordon (Forum Editor) mathematics, and promoting public awareness and understanding of mathemat­ D. J. Lewis ics. All of these activities connect to varying degrees with publishing. Meetings L. Ridgway Scott (Letters Editor) and conferences generate abstracts and proceedings, advocacy generates position Robert E. L. Turner papers and reports, and attempts to raise public awareness and understanding of made MANAGING EDITOR mathematics are often through published material. To carry out the mission John S. Bradley of the Society, to achieve its goals, and to communicate mathematics, the AMS has a major publishing role. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Currently, the Society is undertaking a major effort to broaden and enhance its Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Special Articles role as a publisher, positioning itself to respond to change and to be the publisher of choice for mathematics. 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