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Research and Travel Grants
The American Mathematical Society administers several travel grant programs, some funded by donations to the AMS, others by outside funding from sources such as the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Catherine Roberts to step down as AMS Executive Director
After seven years as Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Catherine Roberts will step down at the end of August to become Chief Executive Officer of the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP).
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Balakrishnan Awarded 2023-2024 AMS Birman Fellowship
Jennifer Balakrishnan, the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars.
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AMS Endorses Bipartisan Data Science and Literacy Bill
The American Mathematical Society (AMS)—together with several other professional organizations in the mathematical sciences—endorses the bipartisan Data Science and Literacy Act (H.R. 1050) introduced by Haley Stevens (MI-11), Jim Baird (IN-4), Don Beyer (VA-8), and Young Kim (CA-40) in the US House of Representatives.
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Daubechies to Receive 2023 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics for 2023 has been awarded to Ingrid Daubechies of Duke University "for work in wavelet theory and applied harmonic analysis," according to the prize citation.
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Abel Prize awarded to Dennis P. Sullivan
Dennis Parnell Sullivan of Stony Brook University has won the 2022 Abel Prize for “groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.”
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Ways to support Ukrainian mathematicians
Some of the community efforts underway to assist displaced Ukrainian mathematicians: