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Notices Editorial Board

General Description

  • Committee is standing
  • Number of members is approximately thirteen: one Chief Editor and twelve Associate Editors.
  • Term of the Chief Editor is three years, January 1 through December 31.
  • Terms of the Associate Editors are concurrent with that of the Chief Editor.
  • Secretary serves ex officio.

The Chief Editor of the Notices shall be appointed by the Council. Recommendations for appointment and reappointment shall be made by a committee consisting of the Chief Executive Officer (chair), the Secretary, the President, and one elected member each of the Board of Trustees and of the Council appointed by the President. For new appointments, the committee should advertise widely to attract applications from the entire mathematical community. The recommendation of the committee along with a written rationale shall be brought to the Council for its approval.

Members of the Editorial Board of the Notices are appointed by the president in consultation with the Chief Editor and the Editorial Boards Committee.

The Notices serves several functions. It publicizes activities of the Society and provides information to its members, and it publishes editorial content, including expository articles, articles on professional issues facing mathematicians, reviews, and other items of interest to the readership. The former items are provided by the AMS Office of Communications and Marketing and by the Office of the Secretary. Editorial content is overseen by the Editorial Board of the Notices.

Principal Activities

The Editorial Board of the Notices solicits, invites, reviews, and edits contributions. These reflect a wide range of mathematical interests and perspectives. The Editorial Board must be respectful of the spectrum of opinions among members of the Society and mindful that publication in the Notices confers the imprimatur of the Society in the eyes of readers. Before acceptance, material to be published in the Notices will be available to all editors for a commenting period set by the Chief Editor. During this time any member of the Editorial Board may raise a concern about any item that is factually incorrect, that is opinion but not labeled as such, that does not meet journalistic standards, or that contains opinions controversial to a portion of the Society's members. The Editorial Board of the Notices solicits, invites, reviews, and edits contributions. These reflect a wide range of mathematical interests and perspectives. The Editorial Board must be respectful of the spectrum of opinions among members of the Society and mindful that publication in the Notices confers the imprimatur of the Society in the eyes of readers. Before acceptance, material to be published in the Notices will be available to all editors for a commenting period set by the Chief Editor. During this time any member of the Editorial Board may raise a concern about any item that is factually incorrect, that is opinion but not labeled as such, that does not meet journalistic standards, or that contains opinions controversial to a portion of the Society's members. Any item about which concern has been raised by any member of the Editorial Board or by AMS staff must be discussed with the Chief Executive Officer, the President and the Chair of the Board of Trustees prior to acceptance, with disagreements settled by the Board of Trustees.

The Chief Editor determines, in cooperation with the production editors in Providence, the number of articles per issue and the date of publication of individual articles. Except by explicit advance permission from the Board of Trustees, no one issue of the Notices may contain more pages than 10% of the annual page budget set for the Notices by the Board of Trustees and no volume may exceed the annual page budget. Articles can be added to the backlog for later publication to meet these requirements.

Other Information

Miscellaneous Information

  1. The Chief Editor of the Notices shall be appointed by the Council. Recommendations for appointment and reappointment shall be made by a committee consisting of the Executive Director (chair), the Secretary, the President, and two elected members of the Council appointed by the President. For new appointments, the committee should advertise widely to attract applications from the entire mathematical community. The recommendation of the committee along with a written rationale shall be brought to the Council for its approval.
  2. Members of the Editorial Board of the Notices shall be nominated by the chief editor or chief editor elect. Those nominations should be approved by the Council or, when appointments are made between meetings, by the Executive Committee of the Council. Members of the Editorial Board serve terms that end with the term of the Chief Editor nominating them.

The business of this committee can be done by correspondence or virtual meetings.

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

  • 00/00/90; Coun. updated 00/00/90; 4/09/05;4/06; 8/09; 7/13 members and edited Note to Chair; 7/22
  • January 03, 2017 Council Minutes, Item 3.4- Clarified the terms of the Editors.
  • April 24, 2021 Council Minutes, Item 6.6-Committee meetings changed from in person to virtual.
  • Updated 1/15 per Council minutes, item 3.5.2

Past Members

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