Director
Ronald C. Rosier
202-293-1170
410-730-1426 (Home)
Fax: 202-293-3412
rosier@georgetown.edu
Administrative Coordinator
Lisa R. Kolbe
202-293-1170
301-601-9449 (Home)
Fax: 202-293-3412
lkolbe@maa.org
Executive Committee
Chair
William McCallum
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721-0089
Office: 520-621-6697
wmc@math.arizona.edu
Term: May 2008 - May 2010
Past-Chair
Richard L. Scheaffer
907 NW 21st Terrace
Gainesville, FL 32603
352-378-1996 (Home)
352-219-9912 (Cell)
Fax: 352-337-2976
scheaffe@stat.ufl.edu
Term: May 2008 - May 2009
Secretary/Treasurer
Raymond L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland
College Park MD 20742
301-405-7061
Fax: 301-314-0827
rlj@math.umd.edu
Term: May 2006 - May 2008
Member-at-Large
Richelle (Rikki) Blair
Lakeland Community College
Preferred mailing address:
7461 Winding Trail Place
Concord OH 44077
440-357-9927
richelle.blair@sbcglobal.net
Term: May 2007 - May 2009
Member-at-Large
Francis (Skip) Fennell
Department of Education
McDaniel College
Westminster MD 21157
410-857-2501
ffennell@mcdaniel.edu
Term: May 2008 - May 2010
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 seventeen 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 seventeen 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. |
