The AMS Committee on Science Policy (CSP) will be hosting a panel discussion at next month’s Joint Mathematics Meeting in Atlanta. Karen Saxe, who worked for Senator Al Franken as the 2013-2014 AMS/AAAS Science and Technology Policy Congressional Fellow, invited the Minnesota Senator (and former Saturday Night Live cast member) to speak to the panel, and he obliged by sending a video to be played at the meeting. Here is the full CSP panel program:
AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
Friday, January 6, 2:30 pm — 4:00 pm
Place: Atlanta Marriott Marquise, Atrium Level, Room A704
Title: “Grassroots Advocacy for Mathematics and Science Policy”
Organizers: Jeffrey Hakim, American University (jhakim@american.edu )
Douglas Mupasiri, University of Northern Iowa (douglas.mupasiri@uni.edu )
Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland (saw@math.umd.edu )Moderator: Karen Saxe (kxs@ams.org), Director, AMS Washington Office
Panelists: Catherine Paolucci, Office of Senator Al Franken (paoluccic@gmail.com)
Douglas Mupasiri, University of Northern Iowa (douglas.mupasiri@uni.edu)
Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland (saw@math.umd.edu)
Description: The AMS Committee on Science Policy has organized this panel to discuss ways to engage with elected officials in addressing policy issues of concern to the mathematics community, including research funding and education. Panelists will discuss the importance of grassroots advocacy and building relationships with legislators to further goals.
The video is about three minutes long, and those of you who cannot attend will be able to watch it at the AMS website — details to be supplied later. In the meantime, if you’re wondering what “Grassroots advocacy for mathematics” looks like, Karen directed me to this blog post about a recent (Capitol) Hill Visit by a Villanova student delegation, organized by the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Speaking of Washington, I found the following quotation from Nietzsche’s Transvaluation of all Values in the chapter on Sade and Nietzsche of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment:
The weak and unsuccessful must perish; this is the first proposition of our philanthropy. And they should even be helped on their way.
Also this quotation from Sade’s Justine:
How in truth can you require that he who has been endowed by nature with an eminent capacity for crime… should have to obey the same law that calls all to virtue or to moderation?
If these sentiments remind you of individuals, living or dead, who have been mentioned in the news recently, you will be relieved to see that, more than one month after national elections, the officials entrusted with the business of the Republic appear not to be guided by Sadist ethics.
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