I hope you are all healthy, both physically and emotionally, and coping as you can.
The AMS is working to support the community through this pandemic period.
If you have a current or pending federal grant, or are planning to submit one in the next months, you may have questions about how COVID-19 is affecting federal granting agencies. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued guidance about proposals and current grants during this pandemic period. In particular, you might wonder about incurred expenses from grants for events cancelled due to COVID-19. Please see guidance on NSF’s implementation. Direct questions about the policies described in the NSF Guidance should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.
NSF is also working to update existing FAQs and other resources to reflect new guidance and is keeping staff and the community informed online. The NSF is of course not the only agency acting; all funding agencies are developing and implementing their own guidelines. In view of the disruption of regular work, the White House Office of Management and Budget has provided federal agencies leeway to waive administrative requirements for grantees. A compilation of agency guidance is available here.
You may be doing more talking with your students about their personal situations and worries. The federal government is working to mitigate expenses and deadlines. As one example, all borrowers with federally held student loans will automatically have their interest rates set to 0% for a period of at least 60 days. University umbrella groups, including both the Association of American of Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), are urging the federal government to help students and institutes of higher education. These two organizations, together with other higher education groups sent a letter to the Department of State seeking guidance regarding visa policy and processes for international researchers and students in the U.S. during the COVID-19 closures. The letter also requests clarification regarding procedures for processing visa applications for new student admissions. As you can imagine, guidelines and policies are changing each day. AAU and APLU websites are updated regularly.
Readers are invited to add helpful hints and information in the Comments section. We can all help each other through this!
It is possible to make a strong case for the fact that side by side to finding vaccines and Meds for Covid-19 Math tools have 2nd vitality,knowledge wise, when it comes to overcoming the Pandem’s effects.It is not time yet to hold live seminar gatherings.So, My question to Folks at AMS is that is there a way to give a virtual Colloq?.I got to ask this because there is a Math angle that shows the possible ways the Covid is being present covering almost all possible ways of prevalence.It is possible other Mathematician may have arrived at a similar statement and proof the conclusion of which is a guide to mitigation and resilience drive,like what I have in my Independent research progress.That different Mathematicians separately arrived at the same conclusion gives the result even more credence.Can’t AMS with NSF sponsor a vid Conf event?.Tefera Worku,a former Phd Trainee,Academic and researcher at Rutgers,SUNYA,respectively (85-06),fromA.A.,Eth.
In answer to your question, yes. I have attended many, and the AMS is also running virtual conferences. Here are links to our fall Sectionals and also our October education conference, all of which will be virtual:
https://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/sectional.html
https://www.ams.org/meetings/coeminiconference