{"id":402,"date":"2017-12-19T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/capitalcurrents\/?p=402"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:46:18","slug":"professional-societies-in-the-mathematical-sciences-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/capitalcurrents\/2017\/12\/19\/professional-societies-in-the-mathematical-sciences-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Societies in the Mathematical Sciences: The Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you are surely aware, there are several professional associations with opportunities (benefits and volunteer) for mathematical researchers, educators, and students. Many members of the AMS are also members of one or more of our sister societies. Do these associations communicate? Work together? Of course! What do they do together and how do they do this? Read on and you will see some basic answers.<\/p>\n

Many of us are about to head to San Diego for some nicer weather and, oh, the Joint Mathematics Meetings<\/a> are there! The Joint Meetings are run annually and jointly by the AMS with the MAA (for society acronyms, see below). Several other associations hold activities at the JMM as well.<\/p>\n

The AMS works with various coalitions on a range of issues that impact our community. The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) is the largest such coalition, and \u201cis an umbrella organization consisting of seventeen professional societies all of which have as one of their primary objectives the increase or diffusion of knowledge in one or more of the mathematical sciences. Its purpose is to promote understanding and cooperation among these national organizations so that they work together and support each other in their efforts to promote research, improve education, and expand the uses of mathematics.\u201d The CBMS member societies are:<\/p>\n