Director
Ronald C. Rosier
202-293-1170
410-730-1426 (Home-try this first)
rosier@georgetown.edu
Administrative Coordinator
Lisa R. Kolbe
202-293-1170
301-601-9449 (Home)
kolbe.lisa@gmail.com
Executive Committee
Chair
Herb Clemens
Department of Mathematics
Ohio State University
Columbus OH 43210
614-292-2789
clemens@math.ohio-state.edu
Term: May 2012 - May 2014
Chair-Elect
Donald Saari
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
2119 Social Science Plaza
University of California Irvine
Irvine CA 92697-5100
949-824-5894
dsaari@uci.edu
Term: May 2013 - May 2014
Secretary/Treasurer
Charles Steinhorn
Department of Mathematics
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie NY 12604
845-437-5524
steinhorn@vassar.edu
Term: May 2012 - May 2014
Member-at-Large
Marilyn Strutchens
Department of Curriculum and Teaching
Auburn University
5040 Haley Center
Auburn AL 36849
334-844-6838
strutme@auburn.edu
Term: May 2012 - May 2014
Member-at-Large
Robert Devaney
Department of Mathematics
Boston University
111 Cummington St
Boston MA 02215-2411
617-353-4560
bob@bu.edu
Term: May 2013 - May 2015
CBMS
1529 Eighteenth Street, NW
Washington DC 20036
202-293-1170
www.cbmsweb.org
The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) is an umbrella organization consisting of sixteen professional societies all of which have as one of their primary objectives the increase or diffusion of knowledge in one or more of the mathematical sciences. Its purpose is to promote understanding and cooperation among these national organizations so that they work together and support each other in their efforts to promote research, improve education, and expand the uses of mathematics.
Formally incorporated in the nation's capital in 1960, CBMS traces its roots back to a War Policy Committee formed in 1942 by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America and its post-war successor, the Policy Committee for Mathematics which included six mathematics organizations. This committee became the Conference Organization of the Mathematical Sciences in 1958, and finally incorporated as CBMS in 1960 with seven member societies, growing over the years to include its present sixteen members.
To foster the purpose of CBMS, the CBMS officers and the presidents of its sixteen member organizations convene twice annually as the CBMS Council at meetings in the CBMS office in Washington DC. It is the policy of the CBMS Council to engage primarily in the following types of activities.
 | To provide a forum for the discussion of issues of broad concern to the mathematical sciences community. |
| To provide a focus for cooperative actions and for mutual support among the member societies. |
| To organize and nucleate new functions for the mathematical sciences community. |
| To serve as an organization to which government, industry, other disciplines, and private foundations can turn for leadership and participation by the mathematical sciences and, in the spirit described here, for advice and counsel. |
| To serve as a point of representation for the mathematical sciences to government agencies, other professional societies, and private foundations. |
