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August 24, 2022

Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

Posted by John Baez

This is the biggest annual meeting of mathematicians:

  • Joint Mathematical Meetings 2023, Wednesday January 4 - Saturday January 7, 2023, John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts.

As part of this huge meeting, the American Mathematical Society is having a special session on Applied Category Theory on Thursday January 5th.

I hear there will be talks by Eugenia Cheng and Olivia Caramello!

You can submit an abstract to give a talk. The deadline is Tuesday, September 13, 2022.

It should be lots of fun. There will also be tons of talks on other subjects.

However, there’s a registration fee which is pretty big unless you’re a student, unemployed, or even better, a ‘non-mathematician guest’. (I assume you’re not allowed to give a talk if you’re a non-mathematician.)

The special session is called SS 96 and it comes in two parts: one from 8 am to noon, and the other from 1 pm to 5 pm. It’s being run by these participants of this summer’s Mathematical Research Community on applied category theory:

  • Charlotte Aten, University of Denver
  • Pablo S. Ocal, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Layla H. M. Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University
  • Abigail Hickok, University of California, Los Angeles

This Mathematical Research Community, in turn, was run by Daniel Cicala, Simon Cho, Nina Otter, Valeria de Paiva and me, and I think we’re all coming to the special session. At least I am.

Posted at August 24, 2022 11:45 PM UTC

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Re: Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

Wow, that is quite a registration fee. I’d have to pay at least 593 dollars.

It’s funny that the fee for “non-mathematician guests” is so sharply reduced (a mere 28 dollars). Should the next category theory conference offer deep discounts to non-category-theorists?

Posted by: Tom Leinster on August 25, 2022 11:34 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

$593 buys you all the pastries and coffee you can stomach for 4 days — together with about 1000 math talks. You just have to know how to get your money’s worth.

I’m curious how they’ll catch mathematicians trying to sneak in while pretending to be “non-mathematician guests”. I’m imagining a polygraph test where they show you a mix of well-formed and ill-formed equations, checking for a galvanic skin response.

Posted by: John Baez on August 26, 2022 12:16 AM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

The definition is

Non-mathematician Guest: Any family member, friend, or associate, who is not a mathematician, and who is accompanied by a participant in the meeting is eligible for this category. Guests will receive a badge and may attend any session, talk, or other event at the meeting.

(My emphasis). At the 2020 JMM, the definition was slightly different

Guests will receive a badge and may accompany a mathematician to any session or talk and enter the exhibit area.

Posted by: James Sheppard on August 26, 2022 12:09 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

In all seriousness, I’m interested in the thinking behind this. Is it, for example, so that parents can bring kids along without having to go through the difficulty and expense of finding childcare? Or is it more to encourage non-mathematicians to come and see what math looks like? Or are there other reasons?

Posted by: Tom Leinster on August 26, 2022 12:15 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

Those reasons sound plausible. There might also be cases of friends or spouses who may want to hang out or meet someone… though $28 would be enough to dissuade me from that.

By the way: the students from the Mathematical Research Community on applied category theory, who are running our special session and/or talking in it, get in for free, and get their travel and lodging paid for too. So it’s a great opportunity for them.

Posted by: John Baez on August 26, 2022 7:14 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

Re: Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023

Just pronounce Euler as Yew-ler

Posted by: Ana N Mouse on August 29, 2022 8:39 PM | Permalink | Reply to this

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