AMS-AAAS Congressional Fellowship

AMS Announces Congressional Fellow

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is pleased to announce that James Rath has been chosen as the AMS Congressional Fellow for 2008-09.

The AMS will sponsor Jim's fellowship through the Congressional Fellowship program administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  The fellowship is designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience, to demonstrate the value of science-government interaction, and to bring a technical background and external perspective to the decision-making process in Congress.

Fellows spend a year working on the staff of a Member of Congress or a congressional committee, working as a special legislative assistant in legislative and policy areas requiring scientific and technical input.  The fellowship program includes an orientation on congressional and executive branch operations, and a year-long seminar series on issues involving science, technology and public policy.

James Rath was chosen from among several very competitive applications.  He earned his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin after completing his thesis on numerical analysis and linear algebra.  He is currently working as a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas in the Center for Subsurface Modeling in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Science.

For more information on the AAAS Congressional Fellowship program, please click here.