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Invited Address Committee for National Meetings

General Description

  • Committee is standing
  • Number of members is eight, including the Secretary and Associate Secretary, who serve ex officio
  • Term is three years

Principal Activities

The Committee selects hour speakers for the Joint Mathematics Meetings and the AMS-SIAM Joint Lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting. This does not include Colloquium or Gibbs Lecturers or joint AMS-MAA speakers. The number of speakers is agreed in consultation with the Associate Secretary in charge of the meeting, who ordinarily participates in the selection. The invitations are issued in the name of the Committee by the Secretary.

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 business of this committee can be done by email or videoconference.

The following passage is extracted from the report of the Committee on Committees in recommending the establishment of the Invited Address Committee for National Meetings:

Fifty minute talks should emphasize very high level exposition and should be designed for fully trained mathematicians. The emphasis in choosing speakers should be on the quality of talk, even though this may result in more repetition of speakers than is now the practice. Nevertheless, the search for good young speakers should be pursued. The Invited Address Committee for National Meetings should make systematic efforts to gather suggestions for speakers. 

Note to the Chair

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

  • January 02, 2024 Council Minutes, Item 2.2: The "Other Activities" section was removed to match current practice and changes "Program Committee" to "Invited Address Committee for National Meetings".
  • January 03, 2017 Council Minutes, Item 3.5: Summer meetings were removed from the description of the Principal Activity.
  • Council minutes of August 19, 1975, pp. 4-5.: EC/BT minutes of 20-22 November, 1981, item 5.1
  • updated 10/31/90; 12/16/92; 8/24/94; 5/04/95; 4/06/99; 8/1/01; 11/13 Note, Misc Info, membership; 7/22
  • April 25, 2020 Council Minutes, Item 4.5.2.3, Name Change.
  • 24 April 2021 Council, Item 6.8: Replaced the 1972 Equal Opportunities for Women Directive with the AMS Statement on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
  • 03 January 2023 Council, Item 3.5: Added the committee's already-existing duty of selecting the AMS-SIAM Joint Lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting to the Principal Activities.

Past Members

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