Dear all, This is to attract your attention to the conference 'Optimal Decisions in Statistics and Data Analysis’ which is to be held at Cardiff University during December 16-18, 2013, see http://ssa.cf.ac.uk The conference is organised on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Professor Anatoly Zhigljavsky. The talks are by invitation only. The list of key-note speakers includes: Panos Pardalos (Univ. of Florida), Valerii Fedorov (Quintiles), Henry Wynn (LSE), Holger Dette (Univ. of Bohum), Werner Mueller (Univ. of Linz) and Yaroslav Sergyeev (Univ. of Calabria). A preliminary programme of the conference can be found at http://ssa.cf.ac.uk/programme.htm Conference fee is £100. This covers conference materials, three lunches, coffee breaks and a conference banquet on December 16. All are welcome to attend. A poster session may be organised if is enough demand. If there are any queries, please e-mail the organisers: [log in to unmask] Best wishes, Jonathan Gillard, Gareth Davies, Iskander Aliev and Andrey Pepelyshev (Local organisers) You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.