Dear Colleague! It is a great pleasure for us to announce the workshop The Second Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications which will take place 30 May - 1 June 2012 in Trondheim, Norway. This is a follow-up workshop from the first one held in Zurich, March 2011 (see http://lgm2012.r-inla.org/ for details). The invited speakers are as follows: David Dunson,Duke University. Gregor Gorjanc,University of Ljubljana. Janine Illian,University of St Andrews. Doug Nychka, NCAR. Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh. Two short courses will be offered as an aperitif before the meeting: * Finn Lindgren will give a short course on Markovian models in spatial statistics. * Thiago Guerrera Martins will give a short course introducing INLA to beginners. There is no registration fee for the meeting, but there is a limitation on the number of participants. Please visit the www-page lgm2012.r-inla.org for information on how to register, how to get there, book hotel, etc... Statistic for Innovation and NTNU are funding this workshop. We look forward to see you here!!! Håvard (On behalf of the organizing committee) -- Håvard Rue Department of Mathematical Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology N-7491 Trondheim, Norway Voice: +47-7359-3533 URL : http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hrue Mobile: +47-9260-0021 Email: [log in to unmask] You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.