The Annual Meeting in Rochester

The sixty-third Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held at the University of Rochester on Thursday through Saturday, December 27-29, 1956, in conjunction with meetings of the Mathematical Association of America on Saturday, December 29 and the Association for Symbolic Logic on Thursday, December 27. The registration was 615 including 508 members of the Society. The thirtieth Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, entitled Mathematics and the future of science, was delivered by Professor M. H. Stone of the University of Chicago on Thursday evening. Professor Richard Brauer, President Elect of the Society, presided. By invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Annual and Summer Meetings, Professor D. C. Spencer of Princeton University delivered an address, entitled On complex structures, on Thursday afternoon at a session presided over by Professor A. C. Schaeffer. On Friday morning the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory was awarded to Professor J. T. Tate of Harvard University for his paper The higher dimensional cohomology groups of class field theory which appeared in volume 56 of the Annals of Mathematics. Professor Tate addressed the Society briefly on the subject of his prize-winning memoir. Tea was served on Thursday afternoon in the Faculty Club, and there was a beer party in the Men's Dining Hall after the Gibbs Lecture on Thursday evening. A conducted tour of the George Eastman House Museum of Photographic Art was held on Friday afternoon. A banquet was held in the dining room of the Women's Residence Hall on Friday evening. Professor J. F. Randolph of the University of Rochester acted as toastmaster. The speakers were Mr. Sol Linowitz, a trustee of the University of Rochester, Professor Richard Brauer, President Elect of the American Mathematical Society, Dean W. L. Duren, President of the Mathematical Association of America, Professor S. C. Kleene, President of the Association for Symbolic Logic, and Professor M. H. Stone. A resolution of thanks to the University of Rochester was presented by Professor R. L. Jeffery. The Annual Business Meeting of the Society was held on Friday, December 28, 1956. The Secretary reported that at this time the ordinary membership of the Society is now 5271, including 572 nominees of institutional members and 31 life members. There are also