Mason Porter's message to undergrads about the January annual meeting of the American Mathematial Society to be held in Atlanta, January 5th to 8th.
Every January, the MAA and AMS host their joint mathematics meetings, which is a very large international math conference with tons of good
opportunities for undergrad students to present their work, interact with professionals, etc. In 2005, the meeting will be occurring in
Atlanta from 1/5-1/8!
The website for the meeting is: http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2091_intro.html
Because of how easy it will be for you to attend this meeting, I _highly_ suggest that you submit an abstract (deadline 10/5) to present your
work. I particular recommend that do a poster presentation, although short speaking slots (10 min) are also available.
(The website above contains submission procedures for abstracts.)
Please submit an abstract even if you don't know if you'll be in town then. Registration for undergrads costs $21 if done by 12/10 and $27
at the door (and this should be trivially fundable for those of you who have participated in VIGRE), and submitting your abstract now is
_not_ a commitment to attend. (You'll just send an e-mail later to cancel if you can't come.)
For people who are not math majors: Theoretical projects in other sciences are still applied math projects and therefore highly relevant, so
it doesn't matter what subject it shows on your diploma, etc. You'll still get _a lot_ out of going to this conference.
For people just starting their projects: The worst case scenario is that you'll make an expository poster discussing the background of the
problem, and that is also worth doing.