John W. Green

The April meeting in Atlantic City

The five hundred ninetieth meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held a t the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotels in Atlantic City on April 16-19, 1962. There were 573 persons registered, of whom 302 were members of the Society. There was a Symposium in five sessions on the Interactions between Mathematical Research and High Speed Computing, jointly sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Mathematical Society, with the financial support of the U. S. Army Research Center, Durham and the National Science Foundation. The proceedings of this symposium, together with those of a Symposium on Experimental Arithmetic a t the April Meeting in Chicago, will be published through an Editorial Committee consisting of Professors John Todd, N. C. Metropolis, C. B. Tompkins and A. H. Taub. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Eastern Sectional Meetings, Professor Joseph B. Keller of New York University addressed the Society on April 18 on Some problems in wave propagation. By invitation of the same committee, Professor David B. Lowdenslager of Princeton University spoke on April 19 on The theorems of F. and M. Riesz on functions analytic in the unit circle. There were six sessions for contributed papers on the afternoon of April 18 and on April 19, a t which 44 papers were presented. The chairmen of the sessions were Professors W. F. Eberlein, P. C. Hammer, H. M. MacNeille, Selby Robinson, J. A. Schatz and J. D. Swift. The Council met on Wednesday, April 18, 1962 a t 5:00 P.M. The Secretary announced the election of the following nineteen persons to ordinary membership in the Society:

The Annual meeting in Denver

The seventy-first Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held a t the Denver-Hilton Hotel in Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday through Friday, January 26-29, 1965. This meeting was in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, a meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, and a regional meeting of the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. The registration at these meetings was 2,056, including 1,356 members of the Society. The thirty-eighth Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture was presented by Professor D. H. Lehmer of the University of California, Berkeley a t 8:00 P.M. on Tuesday, January 26. Professor A. A. Albert, the president of the Society, introduced Professor Lehmer. The title of the Gibbs Lecture was Mechanized mathematics. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Annual and Summer Meetings, hour addresses were given by Professor Eugenio Calabi of the University of Pennsylvania, and by Professor David Mumford of Harvard University. Professor Calabi spoke on Curvature and differential structures on spheres. He was introduced by Professor James Eells. The title of Professor Mumfords talk was Heights of rational points and MordelVs conjecture. Professor Arthur Mattuck presided at this address. The Cole Memorial Prize was awarded to Professor Walter Feit of Cornell University and Professor John Thompson of the University of Chicago for their joint paper Solvability of groups of odd order. The presentation was made by Professor Hans Zassenhaus, chairman of the Cole Prize Committee. There were five sessions of selected twenty minute papers a t this meeting. The first Special Session, on Tuesday, January 26 at 3:15 P.M., was arranged by Professor William Browder and consisted of five papers on Differential Topology. The authors of these papers were M. W. Hirsch, J. Milnor, J. Levine, P. E. Conner and E. E. Floyd, and W. Browder, J. Levine and G. R. Livesay. A Special Session on Differential Geometry was held on Wednesday, January 27 a t 9:00 A.M. The program arranged by Professor James Eells consisted of papers by E. Feldman, T. Frankel, C. C. Hsiung, R. Sacksteder, and J. Wolf. The third Special Session was devoted to Ordinary Differential Equations. I t was held on Wednesday at 2:00 P.M. The program of this session, consisting of papers by E. A. Coddington, L. Markus, J. K. Moser, S. Smale, and W. Wasow, was arranged

The Summer meeting in Ithaca

The American Mathematical Society held its seventieth summer meeting at Ithaca, New York from Tuesday through Friday, August 31-September 3, 1965. There were 1470 persons registered at the meeting including 1051 members of the Society. All sessions were held in lecture rooms and classrooms on the campus of Cornell University. Professor A. P. Calderón of the University of Chicago presented the Forty-Third Colloquium in a set of four lectures with the title Singular integrals. He was introduced at the first lecture by Professor A. A. Albert, President of the Society. Presiding at the other lectures were Professors R. H. Cameron, W. E. Sewell and J. W. Green, the last of whom offered the thanks of the Society to the speaker. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Summer and Annual Meetings, Professor George Lorentz of Syracuse University addressed the Society on Applications of entropy to approximation. Professor Maurice Heins presided and introduced the speaker. There were twenty-six sessions for one hundred seventy contributed papers. Members may wish to know that the number of papers offered for the program was exactly one hundred seventy, the same as the limit set in advance on the number which could be accepted. I t was not necessary to turn down any papers for lack of a place on the program. The chairmen of the sessions for contributed papers were Professors J. H. Bramble, R. J. Bumcrot, S. S. Cairns, S. U. Chase, V. F. Cowling, Louis de Branges, Tomlinson Fort, A. W. Goodman, Emil Grosswald, M. R. Hestenes, J. G. Hocking, S. B. Kochen, J. M. Ortega, L. E. Payne, R. S. Pierce, B. E. Rhoades, Walter Rudin, J. L. Selfridge, S. M. Shah, M. F. Smiley, Lionel Weiss, P. M. Whitman, Dr. H. H. Wicke, Professors Albert Wilansky, P. K. Wong, and Fred M. Wright. Several organizations cooperated in holding meetings or council meetings on the same campus as the Society and at approximately the same time. These included Pi Mu Epsilon, Mu Alpha Theta, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In particular SIAM presented the John von Neumann Lecture by Professor Freeman J. Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, whose topic was Applications of group theory in particle physics. The Mathematical Association of America held their forty-sixth

The April meeting in Chicago

The six hundred thirty-fourth meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held a t the University of Chicago Conference Center for Continuing Education on April 20-23, 1966. There were 285 persons registered, including 270 members of the Society. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Western Sectional Meetings, Professor Glen Baxter of Purdue University spoke on Some aspects of the Ising model, on the afternoon of Friday, April 22. Professor Seymour Sherman introduced the speaker. By invitation of the same committee, Professor Hans Grauert of Göttingen and Notre Dame Universities spoke on Nonarchimedian analysis on the morning of Saturday, April 23. Professor F. E. Browder introduced the speaker. By invitation of the same committee, Professor R. G. Swan of the University of Chicago spoke on Modules over finite groups, on the afternoon of Saturday, April 23. Professor J. G. Thompson presided. On Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday and Friday April 20-22, there was a Symposium on Singular Integrals. The subject was chosen by the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Western Sectional Meetings. Financial support came from the National Science Foundation and the University of Chicago. The Invitations Committee responsible for the planning of the program and the choice of speakers consisted of Professors Alberto Calderón (Chairman), K. O. Fried richs, R. T. Seeley, and Antoni Zygmund. Papers presented a t the Symposium will be published by the Society as Volume 10 in the series Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics. The volume will be edited by Professor Alberto Calderón. There were nine sessions for contributed papers on Friday afternoon and on Saturday. The chairmen of these sessions were Doctors John Polking, Raphael Coifman, Robert Wells, Professors Maynard Arsove, Daniel Waterman, M. E. Rudin, Doctors Richard Hunt, Paul Sally, and Professor A. L. Liulevicius. Dr. R. L. Wheeden was in charge of local arrangements. The Council met on Saturday, April 23. The Secretary announced the election of the following one hundred and fifty-eight persons to ordinary membership in the Society:

The summer meeting in Amherst

The American Mathematical Society held its sixty-ninth summer meeting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts from Tuesday through Friday, August 25-28, 1964. The forty-second Colloquium was presented by Professor Charles B. Morrey of the University of California. The title of the lectures was Multiple integrals in the calculus of variations. He was introduced at the initial lecture by Professor J. L. Walsh. At the remaining lectures, Professors Antoni Zygmund, Herbert Fédérer, and W. T. Reid presided. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Summer and Annual Meetings, there were two addresses. Professor Arthur Sard of Queens College of the University of the City of New York spoke on Function spaces. He was introduced by Professor R. Creighton Buck. Professor John Stallings of Princeton University spoke on The foundations of polyhedral topology. Professor J. G. Hocking introduced the speaker. There were twenty five sessions for contributed papers, at which 156 papers were presented. The following members were very helpful in accepting the chairmanship of sessions for contributed papers: Professors R. D. Anderson, M. G. Arsove, R. H. Bruck, W. W. Comfort, J. H. Curtiss, Dr. D. A. Edwards, Dr. Melvin Dresher, Professor F. A. Ficken, Dr. A. S. Galbraith, Michael Goldberg, Professors Theodore Hailperin, P. C. Hammer, Simon Hellerstein, Erik Hemmingsen, F. Burton Jones, N. H. McCoy, S. G. Mrowka, R. S. Pierce, G. Y. Rainich, W. H. Ruckle, R. T. Seeley, M. F. Smiley, W. R. Wasow, and Dr. H. H. Wicke. Several organizations cooperated in holding their meetings on the same campus and at approximately the same time as the Society. These included the Mathematical Association of America, August 24-26; Pi Mu Epsilon, August 25-26; Mu Alpha Theta, August 26; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, August 26; Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 26-29. Social and recreational events included an all day excursion to Old Sturbridge Village on Wednesday, August 26. SIAM followed a tradition, which had lapsed in the very recent past, of holding a beer party on Wednesday evening. The Gymnasium of Amherst College was the chosen location.