AMS-MAA Joint Meetings Committee

(Dissolved)

General Description

  • Committee is joint and standing
  • Number of members is 5. All members serve ex officio; Members consist of Executive Directors both of AMS and MAA, the AMS Secretary, the MAA Associate Secretary and the AMS Director of Meetings, who is a nonvoting member.
  • The Chair alternates on an annual basis between the AMS (even-numbered years) and the MAA (odd-numbered years).

Principal Activities

To govern and oversee all phases of the conduct of the Joint Mathematics Meetings. This includes site selection (subject to final approval by the AMS’s Secretary and Associate Secretary, and the MAA’s Board of Governors), approving and scheduling all items on the program, and all organizational and financial aspects (e.g., registration fees) of these meetings.

Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
(as adopted by the April 2019 Council)

The American Mathematical Society is committed to promoting and facilitating equity, diversity and inclusion throughout the mathematical sciences. For its own long-term prosperity as well as that of the public at large, our discipline must connect with and appropriately incorporate all sectors of society. We reaffirm the pledge in the AMS Mission Statement to "advance the status of the profession of mathematics, encouraging and facilitating full participation of all individuals," and urge all members to conduct their professional activities with this goal in mind.

Miscellaneous Information

The AMS and MAA pay the travel expenses of their respective committee members to attend meetings of the committee, if necessary. All other expenses of the committee (telephone, preparation of agenda and minutes, etc.) are charged to the January meeting during which the committee meets, or in the case of a second meeting in any given year, to the January meeting immediately following the meeting of the committee. An explanation of travel expense reimbursement of volunteers for this committee is attached. The committee has been designated at LEVEL B.

Note to the Chair

Committee chairs should be informed, at the beginning of each fiscal period, of the budget of their committees and cautioned to remain within the budget. Such items as travel reimbursement, accommodations, and meals for guests of any kind fall within these budgets.

For the purpose of archiving the committee activities, the Secretary maintains a central file system for archiving committee records. Committee Chairs are asked to submit committee records on yearly basis. Chairs can submit material at their discretion, and some materials that they may wish to provide are meeting minutes, agenda, and emails. Confidential material should be noted, so that it can be handled in a confidential manner.

Authorization

  • The first committee was created in 1938 with the name being Joint Committee on Places of Meetings. In 1978 the name was changed to Joint Meetings Committee in order to indicate the broader scope of this committee’s authority.
  • 6/04/90; updated 10/31/90; 8/24/94; 5/04/98, 8/03/991/18/00; 7/22
  • 24 April 2021 Council, Item 6.8: Added the Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Past Members

A list of current and past members is available here:
http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/jtmtgs-past.html