This year's Royal Statistical Society International Conference will take place in Manchester between 7 and 10 September. The overall theme of the conference will be Connecting Practice with Research. Abstracts for contributed papers and posters are currently being called for. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Wednesday 31 March. Papers and posters can be submitted within one of the four sub-themes of the conference: Causal inference Evidence-based policy and practice Public engagement Developing the profession or on any other topic related to statistics. Full details about the submission of abstracts and the conference can be found at http://www.mbs.ac.uk/rss2004/ Paul Gentry Theme Manager, Meetings & Conferences Royal Statistical Society Direct line: 020 7614 3918 Fax: 020 7614 3905 Join the Royal Statistical Society today. For more details go to http://www.rss.org.uk/membership/index.html