![]() On occasion, CSP brings statements to the AMS Council one such recent example is the Policy Statement on Drawing Voting Districts and Partisan Gerrymandering, which was adopted by the Council in 2018. Typical committee business includes planning for a policy session at the next Joint Mathematics Meeting, visiting Congressional offices (those of CSP member’s Senators and Representatives as well as key committee staff), and discussing AMS policies, programs and activities related to the CSP charge. ![]() Our meeting this year will take place very soon - on April 15 and 16. The Committee meets for two days each spring, in Washington DC, giving us the opportunity to interact with important players in the policy arena (including congressional staff, from agencies that oversee funding in the mathematical sciences, and from other professional societies with missions with overlap to that of the AMS). This means that I help set the agenda for the annual meeting, and give logistic and content support throughout the year for the committee’s work. ![]() I serve as the staff support for this committee. The Committee on Science Policy serves as a forum for dialogue about matters of science policy involving representatives of the Society, government and other interested parties interacts with Federal agencies and policymakers provides advice to the Society on matters of broad science policy conducts periodic reviews of Society activities in areas of science policy and selects those elements of AMS meeting programs which bear directly on policy questions that are within the purview of the Committee. The Committee on Science Policy is one of the five. Each policy committee provides major direction for AMS activities in its area. ![]() The AMS has five “policy” committees, which were established in 1993 to correspond to the five major areas in which the mission of the AMS is concentrated: Education, Meetings and Conferences, the Profession, Publications, and Science Policy. ![]()
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