Support from the IMA

The IMA provides the key funding and logistical support for the workshop. This includes:

• Assisting the organizers by keeping track of the schedule, organizing teleconferences, maintaining web documents, logging correspondence, etc.
• Issuing invitations to speakers and paid participants.
• Negotiating salary arrangement for VIVs.
• Assisting visitors with housing, travel, visas, and other concerns.
• Maintaining a database of invitations, acceptances, and declines, and making it available to the organizers.
• Collecting titles and abstracts from speakers and working with the workshop organizers to create the final schedule.
• Creating registration packets, issuing computer accounts, assigning office space, providing secretarial assistance, etc., to participants and visitors.
• Directing production of IMA volumes.
• Maintaining the webspace related to the annual program before, during, and after the program.
• Organizing social events, such as workshop dinners.
• Publicizing the year in various periodicals, through posters and flyers, etc.

Organizing an Annual Program at the IMA