Professional Societies

As suggested in §1, one way a graduate student may express commitment to the profession and maintain contact with the rest of the mathematical world, is to join one or more professional societies. Most of these allow graduate students to enjoy all the privileges of memberships at reduced rates.

The organizations most likely to be of interest are probably:

• American Mathematical Society (research emphasis);
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (emphasis on applied mathematics);
• American Statistical Association;
• Mathematical Association of America (emphasis on collegiate mathematics);
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.