I am sending this mass email to local people who may be interested or know someone interested in attending the meeting I am organizing. Please forward this to anyone you know -- there arelots of sessions on genomics and proteomics!!! We are pleased to announce the plans for this years Annual CSNA Meeting, held jointly with the Interface Foundation of North America, in St. Louis are going great. This years theme is Clustering and Classification and is being organized by Bill Shannon, David Banks, and Rob Culverhouse. The updated web site for the conference is http://ilya.wustl.edu/if_csna_2005_meeting/ where information on invited sessions, short courses, keynote speakers, registration, etc. can be found. There is still plenty of time to join us for this exciting conference: Abstract and Registration Deadline is 4/9/05 In addition to four excellent short courses, a list of invited sessions covering a wide range of topics, we are having several Keynote Speakers including CR Rao, David Scott, Sid Chib, Jerry Friedman, Jon Kettering, and John Quackenbush. We hope you will make every effort to join us for what looks like a fabulous and exciting conference covering cutting edge methodology and applications. Please feel free to contact Bill Shannon ([log in to unmask]) with any questions or comments. Bill --- Joint Meeting of the Interface and Classification Society of North America http://ilya.wustl.edu/if_csna_2005_meeting/ Abstracts and Registration Deadline is 4/9/05 William D. Shannon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine Division of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics Washington University School of Medicine Campus Box 8005, 660 S. Euclid St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: 314-454-8356 Fax: 314-454-5113 e-mail: [log in to unmask] web page: http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon