Professional Organizations
Much valuable information about mathematics,
applied math, statistics, and actuarial science, including
career information, conferences, journals, scholarships, summer
activity, can be obtained from the web sites of various
professional organizations.
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an organization devoted to mathematics research
and professional mathematicians. |
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The American
Statistical Association (ASA)
website for all sorts of information about statistics as
a career and a field of study. |
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The California Mathematics Council (
CMC)
is a professional organization of educators who are
individually and collectively dedicated to the
improvement of classroom instruction in mathematics at
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Computing Resources Association (CRA)
is an association of more than 200 North American
academic departments of computer science, computer
engineering, and related fields; laboratories and
centers in industry, government, and academia engaging
in basic computing research; and affiliated professional
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The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is an organization devoted to undergraduate
students and the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. |
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM)
is devoted to applications of mathematics
and mathematicians working in industry, |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
delivers resources that advance computing as
a science and a profession. ACM provides the
computing
field's premier Digital Library, leading-edge publications, conferences,
and career resources.
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The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM),
an organization devoted to woman mathematicians and
important issues related to the equal treatment of woman
in mathematics. |
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The Institute for Operations Research and Management
Science (INFORMS)
has a web site that contains lots of information about
careers in Operations Research. |
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The Society of Actuaries (SOA)
has a web site and they sponsor a related website
http://www.beanactuary.org/
which contains lots of interesting information about
careers in actuarial science. |
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The National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM)The
is a public
voice of mathematics education, providing vision,
leadership and professional development to support
teachers in ensuring equitable mathematics learning of
the highest quality for all students. |
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Mathematics Institutes
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Interesting Links |
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PlanetMath
Math for people, by the people.
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Mathematrix
Mathematrix is a web site devoted to
exploring mathematical recreations - the more entertaining (and
generally lesser known) areas of mathematics. This site can be enjoyed
by anyone, from individuals with little or no math background to
professors of the subject.
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Careers in
Mathematics
For information
about careers in mathematics or other related fields
check the math dept. web site or the web sites of
various professional organizations, AMS, MAA, SIAM, ASA,
SOA.
The career center is also a place that you can go to get
information about careers and jobs that are available.
The career center sponsors career fairs and invites
recruiters to campus including some from companies with
jobs for students majoring in math.
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Mathworld
The web's
most extensive mathematics resource. A free service provided by Wolfram
Research, makers of Mathematica, and the National Science Foundation.
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