Dear All You are cordially invited to the Applied Statistics and Probability Theory Colloquium to be held at Royal Holloway (Bourne Laboratories, room BLT2) on 4th April 2013, 11am-5pm. This year Colloquium hosts three invited talks as detailed in the programme http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/utah/113/Colloquium2013.pdf and summarized below: 1. Segmenataion with Hidden Markov Models. Dr Jüri Lember, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Tartu University (Estonia) 2. Decision theoretic approaches to segmentation problems in genomics using Hidden Markov Models. Dr Christopher Yau, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London 3.Nonparametric testing of conditional independence. Dr Wicher Bergsma, Department of Statistics, LSE Kind regards Alexey Koloydenko Mathematics Department McCrea 251 Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, TW20 0EX, UK tel: +44(0)1784276421 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.