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...Oxford) on `Some statistical challenges in modern genetics', Frank den Hollander (Eindhoven) on `Polymer chains' and Andrew Barron (Yale) on `Information theory in probability and statistics'. Special invited lecturers are Soeren Asmussen (Lund) on simulation for rare events, Veronique Gayrard (Marseille) on the statistical mechanics of the Hopfield model and Irene Gijbels (Louvain) on nonparametric function estimation. There will be invited paper sessions on asymptotic statistics, Bayesian nonparametrics, bioinformatics, causal inference, concentration of measure, disease mapping, envi...