dear Sir, It may not be possible to attend the above conference owing to severe financial constraints. It will be very kind of you, if the proceedings of the conference are made available to us mail me [log in to unmask] Dr. N. S. Gandhi Prasad Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Economics & Statistics Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola 444 104 Maharashtra INDIA -----Original Message----- From: W. Seidel <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:42 PM Subject: Conference on Mixtures ************** Call for Papers ************* MIXTURES 2001 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MIXTURE MODELLING 23 - 28 JULY 2001 UNIVERSITAET DER BUNDESWEHR HAMBURG, GERMANY A conference sponsored by the German Research Foundation SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dankmar Boehning (Berlin, Germany) Herwig Friedl (Graz, Austria) Bruce G. Lindsay (Penn State, USA) Geoff McLachlan (Brisbane, Australia) Adrian E. Raftery (Seattle, USA) Wilfried Seidel (Hamburg, Germany) ORGANIZERS Dankmar Boehning, Wilfried Seidel TOPICS: Asymptotics, Algorithmic Issues, Bayesian Models, Clustering and Classification, Data Mining, Econometrics, Epidemiology and Medicine, Finance, Heterogeneity and Overdispersion, High-Dimensional Models and Image Analysis, Identifiability, Likelihood Ratio and Number of Components, Marketing, Meta-Analysis and Disease Mapping, Robustness, Spurious Solutions, Survival Analysis. INVITED SPEAKERS include M. Aitkin (Newcastle, UK) G. Celeux (INRIA-Rhone Alpes, France) D. Dacunha-Castelle (Paris, France) R. DerSimonian (Bethesda, USA) J. Diebolt (Grenoble, France) L. Fahrmeir (Munich, Germany) M. Lesperance (Victoria, Canada) U. Fayyad (Seattle, USA) P. Green (Bristol, UK) G. Kauermann (Munich, Germany) L. Knorr-Held (London, UK) E. Lesaffre (Leuven, Belgium) K. Mosler (Cologne, Germany) J. Sarol (Manila, Philippines) S. van de Geer (Leiden, Netherlands) Two tutorials will be given: One on theoretical aspects of mixtures by Bruce Lindsay, and one on practical aspects by Dankmar Boehning. CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a paper in one of the areas listed above. Selected papers will be published in a special volume of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. These will undergo the normal review process of CSDA. For more information visit http://bruce.unibw-hamburg.de/mix01 or contact the local organizer: Wilfried Seidel FB Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg D-22039 Hamburg, Germany E-mail: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************* Wilfried Seidel Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften D-22039 Hamburg Germany Phone: +(49)40-6541 2778 Fax: +(49)40-6541 2091 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://bruce.unibw-hamburg.de *************************************************************