College Park Program (October 30-31) - Page 531 Baton Rouge Program (November 12-13)- Page 545 Notices of the American Mathematical Society < 2.. c: 3 ('1) ~ z c: 3 C" ..,('1) 0'1 October 1982, Issue 220 Volume 29, Number 6, Pages 497-616 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· can 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. 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Copyright© 1982 by the 612 Preregistration Forms American Mathematical Society. Employment Register, 612, 613, 614 Printed in the United States of America. Denver Preregistration and Housing, 615, 616 U.S. Recipients of Fields Medals William P. Thurston Shing-Tung Yau Attempts to obtain a photograph of the third recipient of a Fields Medal, Alain Connes of France, for publication here were not successful. We hope to print one in the next issue of the Notices- Editors Winner of the Nevanlinna Prize Robert E. Tarjan Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prize At the meeting of the General Assembly of Prize Committee outlining the work for which he the International Mathematical Union in Warsaw received that award. early in August, the names of recipients of the ROBERT ENDRE TARJAN was born April 30, Fields Medals and the new Nevanlinna Prize in 1948 in Pomona, California. He was educated Information Science were announced. at the California Institute of Technology (B.S. Fields Medals are to be presented to ALAIN in Mathematics, 1969) and Stanford University CONNES of the Institut des Hautes Etudes (M.S. in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1972, both in Scientifi.ques, WILLIAM P. THURSTON of Prin­ Computer Science). He was assistant professor of ceton University, and SHING-TUNG YAU of the computer science at Cornell University, 1972 to Institute for Advanced Study and the University 1974, Miller Research Fellow at the University of of California, San Diego. ROBERT E. T ARJAN California, Berkeley, 1973 to 1975, and assistant of Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, is to be the first and associate professor of computer science at recipient of the Nevanlinna Prize. Present plans Stanford University, from 1974 to 1981. Since call for the awards to be made at the International September 1980 he has been a member of the Congress of Mathematicians, which is currently technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, scheduled for August 1983 in Warsaw. At that and since September 1981 an adjunct professor at time, lectures are to be presented on the work and New York University. accomplishments of e~h of the recipients. Fields Medals are awarded by the International ALAIN CaNNES was born April 1, 1947 in Mathematical Union on the occasion of an Darguignan, France. In June 1973 he received International Congress of Mathematicians. The a Doctorat d'Etat from University of Paris VI awards were established in accordance with the for a thesis written under the supervision of will of Professor J. C. Fields of the University of Jacques Dixmier. Connes was affiliated with Toronto. Professor Fields died in 1932 and the the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique first awards were made at the Congress in Oslo in from 1970 to 1974, he was at Queen's University, 1936.