The American Mathematical Society is now offering travel grants for graduate students! These grants are for AMS sectional meeting as well as the Joint Math Meetings,
The deadline for JMM funding this year is Sept 28. To apply for JMM funding, students should be in their final year of the PhD program. Please consider applying here! AMS will automatically ask the department to match your AMS grant (expected to be $500 from AMS). We will comply, as long as the funds last, so you can get up to $1000 total.
There are also grants for sectional meetings. Those are open to PhD students in any year of the program, but you can only get it once. The department will again match the AMS sectional meeting grant of $250 for candidates in good standing (as long as funds last) so that you can get a total of $500 for travel to a sectional meeting.
The AMS is the largest and professional organization for research mathematicians in academia. Each January, they organize the Joint Math Meeting (JMM), bringing in also the Mathematical Association of America and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, for a week long extravaganza of research talks and other events. For mathematicians looking for college teaching jobs, including many finishing PhDs and post-docs there is also a job fair, featuring interviews with many (mostly teaching-focused) colleges. The JMM is incredibly diverse, representing all kinds of mathematics, pure and applied, as well as research into teaching mathematics. All kinds of post-secondary institutions are represented, from community colleges to the highest-powered research institutions.
The conference is usually in a pretty posh hotel; this year it will be in Denver.
Read more about our profession’s different professional organizations here.
