{"id":21717,"date":"2012-12-13T00:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T04:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=21717"},"modified":"2012-12-13T00:12:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T04:12:54","slug":"mathematical-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/13\/mathematical-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"What to See and Do at the Joint Mathematics Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21718\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/mathematical-conferences\/sandiegoskyline_gde\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21718\" class=\" wp-image-21718 \" alt=\"Sunny San Diego\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/sandiegoskyline_gde.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/sandiegoskyline_gde.jpg 709w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/sandiegoskyline_gde-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunny San Diego<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How do you choose which lectures to attend at large conferences?\u00a0 I was thinking of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in January when I asked this question.\u00a0 There are several answers.\u00a0 AMS has even developed a <a title=\"Personal Scheduler for JMM\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bmof3zx\" target=\"_blank\">scheduling tool<\/a> to help you get organized once you find your own answer to this question.<\/p>\n<p>My experience with Mathematics conferences has been attending sectional MAA meetings where there may only be three or four lectures in a day.\u00a0 So I may look back at the lectures I most enjoyed at those MAA meetings and find lectures with similar themes, subjects, etc&#8230; in the JMM program.\u00a0 One may choose a few favorite subjects like Algebra, Number Theory, or History of Mathematics, and then attend special sessions on those subjects.\u00a0 For example, I found an AMS special session on the History of Mathematics for Wednesday, January 9, at 8 am.\u00a0 However, I also found an MAA contributed paper session on Research in Number Theory for the same day and time.\u00a0 One may also look for lectures given by prominent or well-known mathematicians.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"When 7000 Mathematicians Come to Boston\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cadvxah\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When 7,000 Mathematicians Come to Boston&#8221;<\/a> contains some advice on how to get the most out of a large conference, from the perspective of someone who attended the JMM in 2012.\u00a0 The take-aways from this paper were to sit up front and ask good questions.\u00a0 Composing some questions in advance will help.\u00a0 In addition to using the scheduling tool above, I&#8217;ll be attending the Reception for Graduate Students and First Time Participants, Wednesday, 5:30 &#8211; 6:30, to help guide myself through the JMM.\u00a0 Given the above answers and resources, how will you choose which lectures to attend at the JMM?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you choose which lectures to attend at large conferences?\u00a0 I was thinking of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in January when I asked this question.\u00a0 There are several answers.\u00a0 AMS has even developed a scheduling tool to help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/13\/mathematical-conferences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/13\/mathematical-conferences\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-conferences-2","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-5Eh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}