Welcome to the Math Alliance Webpage

Welcome to the homepage of the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences (more commonly called the Math Alliance). If you are new to our community, welcome!

We’ll tell you a bit more about ourselves and how you can be involved below. For those who are already Math Alliance Mentors or Scholars, we would like to provide a brief update on the current status of our community and its activities. First, you should have received a note from our listserv on May 23, explaining that the Math Alliance is going through a transition phase. While we had hoped to have a new administrative home in place by now, circumstances have made that impossible. For now, we are thankful for our partners at the American Statistical Association (ASA) for agreeing to host our website during this period of transition. We hope to have the website fully restored and functional soon.

Additionally, please note that our programs remain active. The 2025 Facilitated Graduate Admissions Procedure (F-GAP) is underway, and the nomination form is live. Mentors, if you have a student you think will apply to graduate programs in the fall that you believe is a fit for the program, you can still nominate them while our website is down. Please be sure to review the description of Math Alliance (Predoctoral) Scholars (below). Additionally, we are still working towards hosting the Field of Dreams Conference in Atlanta on November 7-9, 2025. We hope to have more news on this soon. On May 29&30, we held our 6th edition of the Career Paths Workshop at the University of Chicago. We organize this with our partners at the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). By all measures, this was a great success, as it has always been.

For those new to the Math Alliance, we’ll give a brief description here, and our full history page will be up when we restore the website. The Math Alliance evolved from an earlier Iowa Regents University project and took its current form in 2007. The Math Alliance is dedicated to the principle that every U.S. student with the talent, ambition, and desire to pursue a doctoral degree in a quantitative science should have the opportunity to do so. We have always aligned with the National Science Foundation’s notion of Broadening Participation. Mentors play a crucial role in identifying Scholars and nominating them, and Scholars and Mentors can participate in a wide range of programs. Since 2007, almost 3,000 students have been Math Alliance Scholars, and nearly 1,500 faculty members across the country are Math Alliance Mentors.

Math Alliance Predoctoral Scholars are mathematical or statistical sciences students, either undergraduates or students enrolled in a terminal Masters or post-baccalaureate program, who has the ability and desire to earn a doctoral degree in a quantitative science and who come from communities or regions that are underrepresented in these fields.

Scholars are selected by our Math Alliance Mentors using the following criteria:

The student is a US citizen or permanent resident who has attended a US high school and who comes from an area or community that is rural or remote, or a community that is underrepresented in the mathematical or statistical sciences and who would be unlikely to pursue graduate study in a mathematical or statistical science without benefiting from the Math Alliance.