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Joint Mathematics Meetings

(For updated locations, see the timetable; All locations are subject to change)

Other AMS Events

Council: Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., Salon F, 4th Floor, Marriott

Focus Group for Directors of Graduate Studies: Wednesday, 9:00 a.m., Berkeley, 3rd floor, Sheraton. The AMS will hold the tenth in a series of Focus Groups for Directors of Graduate Studies at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, Massachusetts. During this gathering, graduate directors and other department leaders will have the opportunity to share ideas and concerns about key issues of common interest.

This year, we will devote part of the meeting to a discussion of the proposal that the AMS establish Student Chapters for graduate students. We also invite those who are able to attend the Focus Group to send us one issue they would most like to discuss with their fellow graduate directors. We will compile the issues and circulate them prior to the meeting to those who will be attending.

Coffee and tea will be served. If you wish to participate, please let the AMS know by writing to Robin Hagan Aguiar via email (rha@ams.org). You may also reach her by phone at 800-321-4267, ext. 4139. At the time you make the reservation, please indicate the topic you wish to discuss with the group.

Focus Group for Directors of Undergraduate Studies: Friday, 9:30 a.m., Republic B, 2nd Floor Sheraton. The American Mathematical Society will once again be organizing a Focus Group for Directors of Undergraduate Studies at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, on Friday, January 6, 2012. We invite Directors of Undergraduate Studies and other departmental leaders who are involved in undergraduate instruction to participate.

During this gathering, department representatives will have the opportunity to share ideas and concerns about the undergraduate mathematics experience. We invite those who are able to attend the Focus Group to send us one issue they would most like to discuss with their fellow undergraduate directors. We will compile the issues and circulate them prior to the meeting to those who will be attending.

Coffee and tea will be served. If you wish to participate, please let us know by writing to Robin Hagan Aguiar via email (rha@ams.org). You may also reach her by phone at 800-321-4267, ext. 4139. In your response, please include a topic that you would like to discuss during the Focus Group.

Business Meeting: Saturday, 11:45 a.m., Ballroom AB, 3rd Floor Hynes. The secretary notes the following resolution of the Council: Each person who attends a business meeting of the Society shall be willing and able to identify himself as a member of the Society. In further explanation, it is noted that each person who is to vote at a meeting is thereby identifying himself as and claiming to be a member of the American Mathematical Society. The Society has a Committee on the Agenda for Business Meetings. The purpose is to make business meetings orderly and effective. The committee does not have legal or administrative power. It is intended that the committee consider what may be called "quasipolitical" motions. The committee has several possible courses of action on a proposed motion, including but not restricted to:

(a) doing nothing,

(b) conferring with supporters and opponents to arrive at a mutually accepted amended version to be circulated in advance of the meeting,

(c) recommending and planning a format for debate to suggest to a business meeting,

(d) recommending referral to a committee, and

(e) recommending debate followed by referral to a committee.

There is no mechanism that requires automatic submission of a motion to the committee. However, if a motion has not been submitted through the committee, it may be thought reasonable by a business meeting to refer it rather than to act on it without benefit of the advice of the committee.

In order that a motion for this business meeting receive the service offered by the committee in the most effective manner, it should be in the hands of the AMS Secretary by December 7, 2011.



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