[Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this email] This is to announce and invite your participation in a workshop on Statistical Advances in Genome-scale Data Analysis, to be held from 3 - 8 May 2009 at Ascona in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational sciences, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction in a relaxed and collegial atmosphere. Confirmed invited speakers include: Niko Beerenwinkel (ETH Zurich), Sven Bergmann (University of Lausanne), David Clayton (Cambridge University), Christina Kendziorski (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Edward Marcotte (University of Texas, Austin), Florian Markowetz (Princeton University), with others still pending. Contributed presentations will also be welcome. More details and pre-registration instructions are available at http://stat.ethz.ch/talks/Ascona_09 We strongly encourage pre-registration, in previous years places have filled up quickly. Peter B?hlmann Anthony Davison Darlene Goldstein -- Darlene Goldstein ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) Institut de math?matiques B?timent MA, Station 8 Tel: +41 21 693 0528 CH-1015 Lausanne Fax: +41 21 693 4303 SWITZERLAND