Registration and abstract submission for the 29th IWSM is now open at www.uni-goettingen.de/iwsm2014 The 29th IWSM will be hosted by the Centre for Statistics of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) from July 14-18, 2014. As in previous years, the workshop will bring together a wide variety of international researchers, coming from all over the world and featuring different levels of experience, to encourage discussion and interchange between junior and senior scientists. Confirmed *invited speakers* are • Antoine de Falguerolles (Université de Toulouse, France) • Alejandro Jara (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) • Sophia Rabe-Hesketh (University of California, Berkeley, USA) • Gerhard Tutz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) • Simon Wood (University of Bath, UK) In order to submit abstracts and to register for the conference, please visit https://www.conftool.com/iwsm2014/ and create an account as a first step. You are kindly requested to use the template for writing abstracts, which you can download from www.uni-goettingen.de/en/472457.html. The deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2014. The deadline for early registration is April 30, 2014. -- *Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib* Chair of Statistics Speaker of the Center for Statistics Speaker of the RTG 1644 Scaling Problems in Statistics Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 37073 Göttingen Germany Tel.: +49 (0)551 39 5678 Fax: +49 (0)551 39 7279 E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Personal Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/264255.html Chair of Statistics: http://www.statoek.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/ Center for Statistics: http://www.zfs.uni-goettingen.de/ RTG 1644: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/grk1644 You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.