Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science

The AMS collaborates with the American Institute of Physics to contribute toward the production of Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS), a series of video news segments showing how recent advances in science impact consumers. Approximately 60 television stations, covering almost all the top media markets, air the segments. The role of the AMS is to seek out and define story ideas that highlight breakthroughs in and applications of mathematics.

We invite mathematicians to contact us at paoffice@ams.org with proposals--including a brief synopsis of your recent research, how it affects consumers, and whether you would be willing to be interviewed as an expert in the field. Experts and animated graphics are often used to explain and demonstrate the scientific breakthrough. One recent DBIS segment idea came from a story that appeared in the New York Times on two mathematicians (Jeff Dinitz and Dalibor Froncek at the University of Vermont) who used combinatorics to schedule the XFL football games. That developed into a spot on scheduling many types of sports league games.

See a description of the Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science program and view sample videos.

DBIS development and distribution information is also available for media newsrooms.