The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) consists of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
The Board has nearly 55,000 mathematicians and scientists who are members of the four organizations.
Each April, the JPBM celebrates Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (previously, the month was called Mathematics Awareness Month) to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics and statistics. The event was renamed by the JPBM in 2017. To simplify coordination efforts, the JPBM also decided in 2017 that there will no longer be an annual assigned theme for the month. This celebration of mathematics, and now mathematics and statistics, began as Mathematics Awareness Week in 1986.
JPBM Communications Award
Each January at the Joint Mathematics Meeting the JPBM gives its Communications Award to a journalist or other communicator for bringing accurate mathematical information to non-mathematical audiences.
JPBM Communications Award winners
2023: Grant Sanderson and Jordan Ellenberg
2022: Talithia Williams
2021: John Bailer, Richard Campbell, Rosemary Pennington, and Erica Klarreich
2020: Christopher Budd and James Tanton
2019: Margot Lee Shetterly
2018: Vi Hart and Matt Parker
2017: Siobhan Roberts, for Expository and Popular Books, and Arthur T. Benjamin, for Public Outreach 2016: Simon Singh, for Expository and Popular Books, and the National Museum of Mathematics, for Public Outreach 2015: Nate Silver 2014: Danica McKellar 2013: John Allen Paulos 2012: Dana Mackenzie 2011: Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton 2010: Marcus du Sautoy 2009: George Csicsery 2008: Carl Bialik 2007: Steven H. Strogatz 2006: Roger Penrose 2005: Barry Arthur Cipra 2003: Robert Osserman 2002: Helaman Ferguson and Claire Ferguson 2001: Keith J. Devlin 2000: Sylvia Nasar 1999: Ian Stewart 1998: Constance Reid 1997: Philip J. Davis 1996: Gina Kolata 1994: Martin Gardner 1993: Joel Schneider 1991: Ivars Peterson 1990: Hugh Whitemore 1988: James Gleick