The April meeting in Santa Barbara

Abstract

The seven hundred fourteenth meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on Saturday, April 27, 1974. There were 94 registrants including 49 members of the Society. Two invited hour addresses were given by invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Far Western Sectional Meetings. Professor Garth W. Warner of the University of Washington gave a lecture entitled L'functions on reductive groups. He was introduced by Professor V. S. Varadarajan. Professor Hung-Hsi Wu of the University of California, Berkeley, lectured on Applications of some theorems in partial differential equations to geometry. He was introduced by Professor John Douglas Moore. Professors Marvin Marcus, Henryk Mine, and Robert C. Thompson organized two special sessions of thirty-minute papers on Linear Algebra. The speakers were John DePillis, Eugene C. Johnsen, Herbert J. Ryser, Robert C. Thompson, Olga Taussky-Todd, and Stanley G. Williamson. There were two sessions of contributed ten-minute papers. They were chaired by Professors Jack G. Ceder and Max L. Weiss. Local arrangements were handled by Professor Stephen Simons. KENNETH A. Ross