We are happy to inform you that registration for useR! 2013 is now open, see http://www.R-project.org/useR-2013 This meeting of the R user community will take place at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, July 10-12, 2013. Pre-conference tutorials will be offered on July 9. A list of tutorials is available at http://www.r-project.org/useR-2013/Tutorials/ Submission of contributed talks and posters is still open. More information can be found here: http://www.r-project.org/useR-2013#Call In addition to regular talks and posters, all participants are invited to present a Lightning Talk, for which no abstract is required. The format for Lightning Talks is a 15-slide version of Pecha Kucha. Registered participants will be contacted to provide an informative title in due course. Thanks to Revolution Analytics, Google, R-Studio and Oracle, we have a number of bursaries available for Ph.D. students. These will cover registration fees and, if possible, travel expenses. If you would like to apply you need to: - Register for the conference and include "Apply for Bursary" in the Comments section of the Registration form - Submit an abstract using the standard procedure (remember that deadline is 31 March 2013). Only those applicants who submit an abstract will be considered. - Send a summary of your CV, motivation letter (including title of your abstract) and support letter from your advisor to useR-2013 at r-project.org . In the subject of the e-mail state clearly that it is a bursary application. Deadline for bursary applications is 15th April 2013. We look forward to seeing you at useR! 2013 in Albacete! -- Virgilio G?mez Rubio Departamento de Matem?ticas Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales - Albacete Avda. Espa?a s/n - 02071 Albacete - SPAIN Tlf: (+34) 967 59 92 00 ext. 8250/8242