Programs and Activities of Particular Interest to Students
Many opportunities and events of interest to students and young mathematicians are offered at this meeting. Please see the list below; however it is not exhaustive.
Funding Available
Travel Grants available for Graduate Students - Submission deadline - September 28, 2016, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Travel Grants available for Undergraduate Students - Submission deadline - October 7, 2016, 11:59 p.m. Eastern time
Lectures/Panels/Sessions
- Current Events Bulletin
- Joint Prize Session
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
- MAA Student Poster Session
- MAA Lecture for Students - Take What You Have Gathered from Coincidence: Understanding and Using Randomness
- MAA Panel on Refocusing Your Career: Making Time and Space
- MAA Session on Me and My Gadgets - Teaching with Technology
- MAA Session on Weird Ways to Multiply (and Isn’t the Spelling of “Weird” Weird?)
- MAA Session on Poetry + Math
- MAA Session on What Every Student Should Know About the JMM
- Sessions of Interest to High School Students and Teachers
Activities
- AMS Employment Center
- Backgammon Lessons
- Grad School Fair
- Exhibits (commercial)
- Knitting Circle
- Mathematical Art Exhibition
- Math Circle Demonstration
- Math Wrangle Demonstration
- Play - Mathematically Bent Theater
- Radical Dash - a Scavenger Hunt
- Reception for Undergraduates
- Reception for Graduate Students and First-Time Participants
- Who Wants to Be a Mathematician—National Contest