Dear Colleagues, I have been requested by Dr. Stuart Barber to forward the following announcement to the list. Regards Arief Gusnanto Dept. of Statistics University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom Dear all, LASR 2008 THE ART AND SCIENCE OF STATISTICAL BIOINFORMATICS Leeds, UK 15th - 17th July 2008 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ABSTRACTS OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AND POSTERS ARE NOW REQUESTED THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 31 JANUARY 2008 We now invite abstracts from anyone wishing to give a contributed presentation at the LASR workshop. Abstracts should be one or two paragraphs in length, outlining the work that you would like to present. Please indicate whether you would prefer to present your work as a short talk or as a poster presentation. If your abstract is accepted, we will invite you to submit an extended abstract of up to four pages for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. The 2008 Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop will focus on developments in interdisciplinary statistics and in particular the interface between statistical methodology and bioinformatics. We are pleased to announce that the following leading statisticians and bioinformaticians are expected to speak at LASR 2008. Fred Bookstein (Universities of Vienna, Seattle) Clive Bowman (GlaxoSmithKline) Walter Gilks (University of Leeds) John Kent (University of Leeds) Michael Levitt (Stanford University) Kanti Mardia (University of Leeds) Andrew Neuwald (University of Maryland) Alain Trouve (Ecole Normale Superieure, Cachin) David Westhead (University of Leeds) Ziheng Yang, FRS (University College London) For more details, please see the workshop web site http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008 Stuart. -- Dr Stuart Barber LASR 2008 - The art and Science of Statistical Bioinformatics Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop, Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT web: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008