Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences
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The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) is an umbrella organization
of seventeen professional societies in the mathematical sciences in the United States
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Umbrella organization
An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations...
of seventeen professional societies in the mathematical sciences in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Member societies
- AMATYC American Mathematical Association of Two-Year CollegesAmerican Mathematical Association of Two-Year CollegesThe American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges is an organization dedicated to the improvement of education in the first two years of college mathematics in the United States and Canada. AMATYC hosts an annual conference, summer institutes, workshops and mentoring for teachers in and...
- AMS American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical SocietyThe American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
- AMTE Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
- ASA American Statistical AssociationAmerican Statistical AssociationThe American Statistical Association , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States...
- ASL Association for Symbolic LogicAssociation for Symbolic LogicThe Association for Symbolic Logic is an international organization of specialists in mathematical logic and philosophical logic—the largest such organization in the world. The ASL was founded in 1936, a crucial year in the development of modern logic, and its first president was Alonzo Church...
- AWM Association for Women in MathematicsAssociation for Women in MathematicsThe Association for Women in Mathematics is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences. Equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences are promoted. The AWM was...
- ASSM Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics
- BBA Benjamin Banneker Association
- INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management SciencesInstitute for Operations Research and the Management SciencesThe Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research and management science...
- IMS Institute of Mathematical StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical StatisticsThe Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts of the world...
- MAA Mathematical Association of AmericaMathematical Association of AmericaThe Mathematical Association of America is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists;...
- NAM National Association of Mathematicians
- NCSM National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics
- NCTM National Council of Teachers of MathematicsNational Council of Teachers of MathematicsThe National Council of Teachers of Mathematics was founded in 1920. It has grown to be the world's largest organization concerned with mathematics education, having close to 100,000 members across the USA and Canada, and internationally....
- SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsSociety for Industrial and Applied MathematicsThe Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...
- SOA Society of ActuariesSociety of ActuariesThe Society of Actuaries is a professional organization for actuaries based in North America. It was founded in 1949 as the merger of two major actuarial organizations in the United States: the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries...
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