{"id":3030,"date":"2012-04-15T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2012-04-15T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T15:18:39","slug":"maa-mathfest-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/04\/15\/maa-mathfest-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"MAA MathFest 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3036\" title=\"Mathfest\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/04\/mathfest2012-131x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mathfest\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" \/>The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) will host a national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/mathfest\/mathfest.html\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a> on August 2-4, 2012, in Madison, Wisconsin. It seems it is a big event that I had not been aware of; the website mentions that 1, 535 participants were present last year.<\/p>\n<p>While the registration price seems to be exorbitant for institutions, I would say the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signup4.net\/public\/ap.aspx?EID=MATH17E&amp;OID=130\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Student price <\/a>is rather reasonable ($50). Also, discounts are offered for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/mathfest\/housing.html\" target=\"_blank\">reservations<\/a> at the Hilton Madison Hotel and Sheraton Madison Hotel; for a cheaper price, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housing.wisc.edu\/summerprograms\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Smith Hall<\/a> at the UW-Madison has available rooms for the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the invited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/mathfest\/mathprogram.html\" target=\"_blank\">addresses<\/a> seem to be interesting, and graduate students will definitely find many ways to keep themselves busy with all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/mathfest\/grad_students.html\" target=\"_blank\">activities<\/a> for graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look. I hope to see some of you over there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) will host a national conference on August 2-4, 2012, in Madison, Wisconsin. It seems it is a big event that I had not been aware of; the website mentions that 1, 535 participants were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/04\/15\/maa-mathfest-2012\/\">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\/04\/15\/maa-mathfest-2012\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-MS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}