PI-BLICATIONS AND REPORTS AMEETING PAPERS PRESENTED Symposium on Frequency Standards and Canada August 20 - September 1, \Metrology, U-niversity of Laval, Quebec, 1971 S. Ezekiel, Laser Frequency Stabilization I-sing a Molecular Beam as Reference First Annual iMeeting of Society for Neuroscience, October 27-30, N. Y. Washington, 1971 S. tKiang, Central Processing in the Auditory System Symposium on Mathematical Questions in the Life Sciences, December 26, W. D. C. Providence, 1971 I. Siebert, Stochastic Limitations on Sensory Performance (invited) American Physical Society Winter \Ieeting in the East, Cambridge, December 27-29, MIassachusetts 1971 W. P. Allis and R. Waves G. Rhode Island W. Flynn, Xlaximum Amplitudes of Nonlinear Plasma Bekefi, Optical Transitions Induced by Plasma Turbulence G. Bekefi, Bremsstrahlung Instability in a Plasma Induced by Electron Streaming P. A. Politzer, Fully Ionized Plasma in a Steady-State Linear Quadrupole Department of Electrical Engineering, January 6, IUniversity of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 1972 P. Elias, Connecting Networks, Sorting Networks and Information Theory (invited) Bioengineering Seminar, Princeton, January 27, N. Y. New Jersey 1972 S. Kiang, Functional Design of the Mlammalian Auditory System Single-IUnit Seminar, Princeton, New Jersey January 27, N. Y. 1972 S. Kiang, Ilethods, Materials and Measures in Single-I-nit Recording 1972 International Symposium on Information Theory, Pacific Grove, California Asilomar Conference Ground, January 31 - February 3, 1972 P. \V. Elias, Bounds on Retrieval Algorithms I. Siebert, Stochastic Limitations on Auditory Performance (invited) Neuroscience Seminar, I niversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 10, N. Y. S. Virginia 1972 Kiang, Stimulus Coding in the M\Iammalian Auditory Nerve xiv PAPERS PRESENTED (continued) MEETING IEEE Boston Chapter G-MTT Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts February 28, 1972 M. Greenspan, K. I. Thomassen, and P. Penfield, Jr., General-Purpose Microwave Circuit Analysis Incorporating Waveguide Discontinuity Models JOURNAL PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION (Reprints, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139) Bless, Production of High Pressures by a Capacitor Discharge-Powered Linear Magnetic Pinch (J. Appl. Phys.) S. J. B. Blesser, Speech Perception under Conditions of Spectral Transformation: I. Phonetic Characteristics (J. Speech Hearing Res.) T. L. Bradley, A. E. Dabiri, and R. E. Stickney, Measurements of the Spatial Distribution of H2 Desorbed from Ni Surfaces: Effects of Surface Composition and Crystal Orientation P. (Surface Sci.) Elias, The Efficient Construction of an Unbiased Random Sequence Statist.) (Ann. Math. U. Ingard, Review of High Intensity Ultrasonic Fields, edited by L. D. Plenum Press, New York, 1971, 429 p. (Phys. Today) J. A. Kong and L. H. Wang, Dispersion Analysis of Opto-acoustic Interactions in Moving Media (J. Appl. Phys.) T. J. A. Rozenberg, Lee and R. E. Stickney, Molecular Beam Study of the Desorption of Cesium Ions from Tungsten Crystals (Surface Sci.) A. Offenberger, L. M. Lidsky, and D. J. Rose, Induced Fluorescence and Temperature Jump in CO 2 by Resonant Absorption of 10. 6b CO)2 Laser Radiation (J. Appl. Phys.) G. D. Papadopoulos and B. (Radio Sci.) F. Burke, The M. I. T. Ku-band Radio Interferometer Finding the Potential Directly from Scattering Data (J. Chem. D. E. Pritchard, Phys.) D. E. J. A. Rome and R. J. D. WV. Swain and S. C. Brown, Moving Striations in a Low-Pressure Argon Discharge (Phys. Fluids) T. R. Willemain and F. F. Lee, Tactile Pitch Displays for the Deaf (IEEE Trans. (AU)) Robinson, The Display of Three-Dimensional Diagnosis (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) ltrasonic Data for Medical Briggs, The Stability of Sheared Electron Flow (Phys. Fluids) B. Ya'akobi, E. V. George, G. Bekefi, and R. J. IIawrvluk, Stark Profiles of Forbidden and Allowed Transitions in a Dense, Laser-Produced Helium Plasma (J. Phys. B) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION M. Balooch, A. E. Dabiri, and R. E. Stickney, Measurements of the Speed and Spatial Distributions of Arsenic Molecules Evaporated from an As (111) Crystal (Surface Sci.) A. G. Galaitsis, Visualization of the Time-Average Pressure Distribution in a Rectangular Resonant Cavity (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.) G. D. Papadopoulos, K. Y. Lo, P. Rosenkranz, and E. J. Chaisson, Observations of Recombined Lines at 16. 5 GHz (Astrophys. Letters) TECHNICAL REPORTS PUBLISHED (These and previously published technical reports, if available, may be obtained from the Document Room, 26-327, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139) 486 Michael J. Marcus, Networks New Approaches to the Analysis of Connecting and Sorting SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS G. Bekefi, Advances in Plasma Diagnostics with Waves and Radiation, in 10th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 1971, Oxford, England, September 13-20, 1971. Invited Papers, P. A. Davenport (Ed.) (Donald Parson and Co., Ltd, Oxford, England), pp. 299-332 A. Bers, Interactions between Acoustic Surface Waves and Electrons in Solids, Invited Proceedings of the 1970 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, San Francisco, California, October 21-23, 1970, IEEE Publication No. 70C69SU, New York, 1971, pp. 138-172 S. K. Burns and F. F. Lee, Raster Based Displays in Patient Monitoring (NEREM 71 Record), pp. 275-276 B. Coppi, Plasma Collective Modes Involving Geometry and Velocity Space, in Advances in Plasma Physics, Vol. IV (Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York), pp. 173-218 M. Eden, Biomathematics, Chap. 12 in Theodore Colton and Janet W. Mac Arthur (Eds.), Statistics in Endocrinology (The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1970), pp. 269-279 J. L. Goldstein, T. Baer, and N. Y. S. Kiang, A Theoretical Treatment of Latency, Group-Delay and Tuning Characteristics for Auditory-Nerve Responses to Clicks and Tones (Proc. Johns Hopkins Symposium on the Physiology of the Auditory System, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, June 25-26, 1971) E. M. Hofstetter and A. V. Oppenheim, Optimum Nonrecursive Digital Filters (Proc. Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Circuits and System Theory, Monticello, Illinois, October 6-8, 1971), pp. 789-798 E. V. Hoversten, Optical Communication Theory, in F. T. Arecchi and E. O. Schultz-Du Bois (Eds.), Laser Handbook (North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1971), pp. 897-954 Paula Menyuk, The Development of Speech, The Bobbs-Merrill Studies in Communicative Disorders (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1972), pp. 3-44 xvi SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS (continued) D. H. Staelin, Remote Sensing of Atmospheric and Surface Temperatures with Microwaves, in 5th Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry (Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, 1972), Vol. 4 J. Tretiak, Achievements in Image Processing (Proc. Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory, Monticello, Illinois, October 6-8, 1971), pp. 497-506 0. xvii