Mathematics Organizations
The Principal Mathematics Organizations
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
The Focus of Each Organization
| Organization
| Emphasis
|
| AMS
| Research in pure math
|
| MAA
| Teaching
|
| SIAM
| Research in applications
|
Advantages
- Networking
- Getting known to the mathematical community
- Keep up to date with results
- Explore new areas of mathematics
- Interesting applications
- Alternate views
- Teaching hints
- Reduced registration fees at meetings
The main organizations
- Journals
- American Mathematical Monthly
- College Mathematics Journal
- Mathematics Magazine
- Focus
- Meetings
- Sections
- Professional development
- Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching)
- Project ACCCESS (Advancing Community College Careers: Education, Scholarship, and Service)
- SUMMA (Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement)
- PMET (Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers)
- Women and Mathematics Network
- AMC (American Mathematics Competitions)
- MAA Online Columns
- Journals
- SIAM News--free with membership
- SIAM Review--free with membership
- SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
- SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
- SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
- SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
- Meetings
- 2006 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Bethesda, MD April 20-22, 2006
- SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, May 15-17, 2006
- SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Victoria, B.C., June 25-28, 2006
- SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, July 10-14, 2006
- SIAM Activity Groups
- SIAG on Discrete Mathematics
- SIAG on Life Sciences
- SIAG on Linear Algebra
- SIAG on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
- SIAG on Supercomputing
- Free student membership for math graduate students at ISU
- Employment website
- Visiting lecture series
Mathematics Institutes
- IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications)
- Minneapolis--convenient
- ISU is a participating institution. Hence financial support is usually available to attend events at the IMA.
- Annual programs:
- Imaging, September 2005-June 2006
- Applications of Algebraic Geometry, September 2006-June 2007
- Meetings
- Short courses: Biophysical fluid dynamics, June 19-30, 2006
- IMA PI Summer Program for Graduate Students: Topology and its Applications, Mississippi State University, July 10-28, 2006
- Summer program: Symmetries and overdetermined systems of partial differential equations, July 17-August 4, 2006
- Mathematical Modeling in Industry--A Workshop for Graduate Students, August 9-18, 2006
- MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)
- Berkeley
- Annual programs
- Rational and integral points on higher-dimensional varieties, 2005-06
- New topological structures in physics, 2005-06
- Workshops
- Cohomological approaches to rational points, March 27-31
- Mathematical systems biology of cancer, May 3-5
- Summer graduate workshops
- SL(2,R), a minicourse at the University of Utah, May 21-June 2, 2006
- Mathematical aspects of computational biology, June 19-30, 2006
- Low dimensional topology, June 25-July 15, 2006
- Computational number theory, July 31-August 11, 2006
- MBI (Mathematics Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University)
- Columbus
- Emphasis years
- Ecology and Evolution, 2005-2006
- Systems Physiology, 2006-2007
Finding the web sites
Mathematics Department homepage / Resources