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Colleges and universities across the country go to online teaching: tips for math instructors

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Karen Saxe

As you may know, the AMS Department of Education is now physically located in DC. This helps us keep up to date with policies affecting higher education. Many state governments are curtailing in-person classes at their public universities, and many … Continue reading →

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Hidden Figures Honored in Congress

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Karen Saxe

Editor’s note: Andrea R. Williams works at the American Mathematical Society as an Assistant to the Associate Executive Director in the Office of Government Relations. New to the field of mathematics and all that it encompasses, Andrea is a citizen … Continue reading →

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AMS Education and Science Policy Activities at the Joint Mathematics Meetings

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Karen Saxe

Each year at the JMM, the AMS Office of Government Relations organizes four events. I look forward to greeting you at all of them. We host the Congressional Fellowship Session on Friday, January 17, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm in the Colorado CC, … Continue reading →

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AMS President Jill Pipher to Congress: “No Longer Secure: Cryptography in the Quantum Era”

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Karen Saxe

On Thursday, December 5, AMS President Jill Pipher spoke to Congressional representatives and told her attentive audience about the long history—from Caesar to present—of cybersecurity; the deep theoretical mathematics involved, and the state-of-play regarding both the potential and perils of … Continue reading →

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What you missed over the summer: balancing openness in science with threats to security by foreign researchers

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Karen Saxe

  “… to the members of our international campus community, without hesitation and with heartfelt affirmation, let me say: We value you. We support you. We will always welcome you. This is a campus that is unafraid of inclusivity. We … Continue reading →

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Gerrymandering and math in the era of state reform

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Karen Saxe

Editor’s note: Hope Johnson is a data scientist at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, where she is on a team developing OpenPrecincts, a database of precinct and electoral data to help citizens participate fully in redistricting. Hope graduated from Macalester College … Continue reading →

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Addressing Threats and Vulnerabilities in Critical Interconnected Systems: Common Principles in Disease Outbreaks, Internet Malware, and Bank Failures

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Karen Saxe

On June 13, the AMS, together with MSRI hosted another in its series of biannual Congressional Briefings, with that title. Our presenter was Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. Introductory remarks … Continue reading →

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AMS Primer on Open Access

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Karen Saxe

  Over the past several years, traditional models of journal publications have been scrutinized, and new models of “open access” publishing have been launched. The AMS has made changes to its family of journals, and has been active in policy … Continue reading →

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NSF’s “We are Mathematics” Video Competition deadline extended

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Karen Saxe

The deadline for entries to the NSF “We Are Mathematics” Video Competition has been extended to February 28, 2019. This extension is due to the partial government shutdown. The NSF was closed but is now up and running again, and … Continue reading →

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Submit your big and wonderful ideas by October 26

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Karen Saxe

We know that mathematics touches every other field of science funded by the NSF. I hope that the next set of “big ideas”—that help guide NSF funding priorities—reflect that. We have an opportunity and, arguably, a responsibility to make this … Continue reading →

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