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1. The Proposal funded by AMS as the 1999 Non-Commutative Geometry Conference at MSRI in 1999: This large conference produced the volume edited by myself and Ihara. The Prelude to the volume is in the Articles on Arithmetic of Covers. von_neu12-29-98.pdf

2. School Mathematics and National Science Policy: Last rev: 01/09/1999: Proposal for a UC/DC seminar and interaction with the American Mathematical Society UC-DC.pdf

3. Should Journals compensate Referees?, May 2007 Notices of the AMS: Refereeing is a hard task, and too few do it well. We suggest, if there was incentive, more mathematicians would feel it worth developing the high skills that go with quick, quality refereeing. The article solicited the opinions of five colleagues, not listed in the published version. They are -- as given by numbering in the article and in order of the appearance of their comments: #1. Pierre Debes (Lille), #2. Roger Howe (Yale), #3. Robert Guralnick (USC), #4. Ken Ribet (Berkeley) and #5. Moshe Jarden (Tel-Aviv). fried-opinion-refcomp.pdf

4. The Uneasy Relation Between Referees and Editors, Response to a letter of Professor Aczel, (both to appear October 2007 AMS Notices; I give a URL to it in this response). He wrote in regard to "Should Journals compensate Referees?," May 2007 Notices of the AMS. Professor Aczel gives me a chance to respond to a piece of received wisdom that affects the part of the community that cares about journals and getting your papers into them. In his letter he says, "I was always told and was convinced when actively editing journals that the authors, not the referees, are ultimately responsible for errors." aczel-smallresp.html

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