*** NEWS ITEMS ABOUT DIMACS *** 

	For the year 1992, Ronald Graham of AT&T Bell Labs is the
President-Elect of the American Mathematical Society.  His two-year
term as President will begin in January of 1993.  He was also elected
Chair of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for
Advancement of Science for a term of one year, to begin in February
1993.

	On May 15, President Francis L. Lawrence presented Dr. Daniel
Gorenstein, Director of DIMACS, with the Board of Trustees Award for
Excellence in Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
for the academic year 1990-91.

	In May, 1991 Andras Prekopa of RUTCOR became the honorary
president of the Hungarian Operations Research Society.  The election
took place on the occasion of the formation and first meeting of the
founding members of the Society.

	On August 7 at the MAA summer meeting in Orono, Maine, the
American Mathematical Association awarded the Lester R. Ford Award for
Excellence in Expository Writing to Peter Winkler of Bellcore
(together with Joyce Justicz of Emory University and Edward
Scheinerman of Johns Hopkins) received the award for their article
"Random Intervals."  Ronald Graham of AT&T Bell Labs (together with
Frances Yao of Xerox PARC) also received this award for their work
entitled "A Whirlwind Tour of Computational Geometry."  Both articles
appeared in Vol. 97 of the American Mathematical Monthly (1990).

	In August, David Shanno of RUTCOR and Irving Lustig of
Princeton won the E.M.L. Beal-W.B. Orchard-Hays Prize for excellence
in Computational Mathematical Programming at the Mathematical
Programming Society triennial meeting in Amsterdam.  (The prize was
shared with their colleague Roy Marsten of Georgia Tech.)

	Joan Feigenbaum of AT&T Bell Labs has been appointed to the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Algorithms.

	Last July, Gerald Goldin, Director of the Rutgers Center for
Mathematics, Science and Computer Education gave a plenary talk at the
Second International Wigner Symposium in Goslar, Germany (an
international meeting attended by over 300 scientists) on his work in
mathematical physics.  He has also been invited to give a plenary talk
to the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
at their annual meeting next August.

	Since the beginning of 1991, Richard T. Bumby of Rutgers,
Mathematics Department, has been phased in to the position of American
Mathematical Monthly Problems Editor and will soon be assuming full
responsibility for this Problem Section which appears 10 times each
year.

	The sixth volume of the DIMACS Series appeared this fall.  It
consists of twenty-three refereed papers invited from participants in
the 1989-1990 DIMACS Special Year in Discrete and Computational
Geometry.  Some were presented at the workshops, including several
survey talks, while others were written after their authors' DIMACS
visits.  All relate in one way or another to the main geometric themes
that occupied the attention of the participants during the year.