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General InstructionsThe AMS and MAA make every effort to keep participant expenses at meetings and registration fees for meetings as low as possible. We work hard to negotiate the best hotel rates and to make the best use of your registration dollars to keep the meetings affordable for you. The AMS and the MAA encourage all participants to register for the meeting. When you pay the registration fee, you are helping to support a wide range of activities associated with planning, organizing, and running a major meeting of this size. The importance of advance registration cannot be overemphasized. Advance registration fees are considerably lower than the fees that will be charged for registration at the meetings.
Please click here for detailed list of registration fees and categories for this meeting.
Please click here to register and reserve a room online. VISA, MasterCard, Discover,
and American Express are the only methods of payment which
are accepted for Internet advance registration, and charges
to credit cards will be made in U.S. funds. All Internet advance
registrants will receive acknowledgment of payment upon submission
of this form. For your convenience, a copy of the
form is available in pdf format here.
Forms must be mailed or faxed to the MMSB st MMSB, P. O. Box 6887, Providence,
RI 02940 or 401-455-4004.
Acknowledgments of registrations will be sent by email to
the email addresses given on the Advance Registration/Housing
Form. If you do not wish your registration acknowledged by
email, please mark the appropriate box on the form.
There are three separate advance registration deadlines, each with its own advantages and benefits.
Early Advance Registration: Those who register by the early deadline of November 4 will be included in a random drawing to select winners of complimentary hotel rooms in San Francisco,. Multiple occupancy is permissible. The location of rooms to be used in this drawing will be based on the number of complimentary rooms available in the various hotels. Therefore, the free room may not necessarily be in the winner's first-choice hotel. The winners will be notified by mail by December 24. So register early!
Ordinary Advance Registration: Those who register after November 4 and by the ordinary deadline of November 18 may use the housing services offered by the MMSB but are not eligible for the room drawing. You may also elect to receive your badge and program by mail in advance of the meetings.
Final Advance Registration: Those who register after November 18 and by the final deadline of December 23 (8:00 am EST) must pick up their badges, programs, and any tickets for social events at the meetings. Unfortunately, it is sometimes not possible to provide final advance registrants with housing, so registrants are strongly urged to make their hotel reservations by November 18. To pick up your materials, please come to the Meetings Registration Desk in the first-floor lobby of the Moscone West Convention Center.
Those who cancel their advance registration for the meetings,
MAA Minicourses, or Short Courses by January 8 (the
deadline for refunds for banquet tickets is January 4 )
will receive a 50% refund of fees paid. No refunds will be
issued after this date. Please send email to the MMSB
at mmsb@ams.org to cancel
registrations and/or tickets.
Advance registration forms accompanied by insufficient payment
will be returned, thereby delaying the processing of any housing
request, or a US$5 charge will be assessed if an invoice must
be prepared to collect the delinquent amount. Overpayments
of less than US$5 will not be refunded.
For each invalid check or credit card transaction that results
in an insufficient payment for registration or housing, a
US$5 charge will be assessed. Participants should check with
their tax preparers for applicable deductions for education
expenses as they pertain to these meetings.
Participants registering by November 18 may receive
their badges, programs, and tickets (where applicable) in
advance by mail approximately three weeks before the meetings. Participants who do not wish to have their registration
materials mailed must check the appropriate box on the Advance
Registration/Housing Form. Registration materials will
be mailed automatically if this box is not checked. Because
of delays that occur in U.S. mail to Canada, advance registrants
from Canada must pick up their materials at the meetings.
Because of delays that occur in U.S. mail to overseas, materials
are never mailed overseas. There will be a special Registration
Assistance Desk at the Joint Meetings to assist individuals
who either do not receive this mailing or who have a problem
with their registration. Please note that a US$5 replacement
fee will be charged for programs and badges that are mailed
but not taken to San Francisco.
Participants Who Are Not Members
of the AMS and register for the meetings as a nonmember
will receive mailings after the meetings are over with a special
membership offer.
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