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[Mike West]

		     INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MIXTURES
   		    Aussois, France, September 17-21 1995

A Workshop on Statistical Mixture Modelling will be held in Aussois, France
in September this year.  The meeting is co-sponsored by French agencies
CNRS, ADRES and INRIA, the universities of Rouen and Grenoble, and Duke
University. Additional sponsorship is expected from the US National Science
Foundation, principally in terms of a group travel grant for US based
researchers.

The Workshop is held in recognition of the recent growth and development in
the theory and, in particular, applications of statistical methods based on
mixtures of distributions. The high level of recent and current research
activity reflects the growing appreciation of the key roles played by
mixture models in many complex modelling and inference problems, and is
driven, in part, by advances in computational statistical technology.  The
meeting provides a forum for reviewing and publicising widely dispersed
research activities in mixture modelling, stimulating fertilisation of
theoretical, methodological and computational research directions for the
near future, and focusing attention on the wide variety of significant
applied problems in complex stochastic systems that are inherently
structered in mixture terms. Example workshop topics might include:
mixtures in density estimation, regression and time series; mixtures in
statistical image modelling and analysis, neural networks, graphical models
and networks; stochastic simulation for mixture analysis; clustering and
classification problems; model selection and combination; alternative
approaches to inference in mixtures; latent variables and incomplete data
problems; and applications of mixtures in various scientific areas. The
workshop will bring together senior researchers, new researchers and
students from various backgrounds to promote exchange and interactions on
the frontiers of statistical mixture modelling and to highlight the
development of statistical technology across these fields.

The meeting will consist of invited and contributed talks, posters,
discussion and round-table sessions.  Talks will be given in morning
(9am-1pm) and evening (5pm-8pm) sessions, with the midday period
(2.30-4.30pm) for contributed poster sessions, informal discussions and
round-tables.  Activities at the meeting will be publicised though World
Wide Web access to abstracts of papers and posters presented.

The Organising Committee of the Workshop consists of Christian Robert
(Universite de Rouen) and Gilles Celeaux (Inria, Grenoble, France),
Professor Kathryn Roeder (Carnegie Mellon University), and Mike West (ISDS,
Duke University). The venue is the CNRS Paul Langevin Conference Center at
Aussois in the French Alps. Attendance is to be strictly capped at 80
delegates on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration details and
forms are available from Christian Robert, at robert at bayes.univ-rouen.fr.
Informal enquiries can also be sent to Mike West, at
M.West at statslab.cam.ac.uk, from whom applications for NSF travel grant
support can also be obtained.