As always, the ASA-SIAM Book Series will have a booth in the exhibit hall at the Joint Statistical Meetings. This year, you can the series at booths #607/609, where you can shop for books at 20%–30% off list prices.
SIAM
SIAM Offers Solution to Costly Textbooks
SIAM, joint publisher of the ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability, has enacted the Textbook Adoption Discount Program, which offers students 20% off list price for any SIAM book adopted as a primary text for an undergraduate- or graduate-level course.
Contest Helps High-School Students Find Solutions to Real-World Issues
Moody’s Mega Math Challenge is a contest intended to remind highschoolers that math is more than problems in a textbook. Here are the details for the next challenge weekend, which is set for March 5–6; the registration deadline is February 25.
Book Series Returns to JSM
The ASA-SIAM series will raffle off an iPod Touch during this year’s JSM. Entrants do not need to be present to win.
Representatives Available at 2010 Conferences
Representatives from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics will be available to discuss book projects at several conferences in the coming year.