The 20th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, CASI 2000, will be held at the Great Southern Hotel, Rosslare, Co Wexford, Ireland during Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th May 2000 under the auspices of the Irish Statistics Association. The Conference has become the main forum in Ireland for methodological development in Statistics and has gained a reputation for its hospitality over the years. The Great Southern Hotel is easily accessible by road and train and is convenient for the ferries from the UK and France: For details see http://www.tcd.ie/Statistics/CASI2000/CASI2000.htm The Programme There will be four major sessions led by invited speakers. Dr. Tim Holt, outgoing Director, Office for National Statistics, UK Official Statistics: the research agenda and the role of academics Prof. Yudi Pawitan, Dept of Statistics, NUI, Cork, Ireland Likelihood: the past and the future* Prof. Adrian Raftery, University of Washington, USA Model-based clustering, image analysis and Markov chain Monte Carlo Prof. Antony Unwin, University of Augsburg, Germany Visualisation for exploratory modelling analysis There will be contributed papers (oral and poster presentations) on the main themes of the Conference and on general statistics (methodological or applied). Submission details will be posted shortly. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> John Haslett E-mail [log in to unmask] Professor Phone +353 1 6081114 (direct) Department of Statistics +353 1 6081767 (sec) Trinity College Fax +353 1 6615046 Dublin 2,Ireland WWW: http://www2.tcd.ie/Statistics/staff/jhaslett.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%