Cari tutti,

su gentile richiesta degli organizzatori, inoltro l'annuncio del convegno in onore di Aad van der Vaart.

Saluti, AL

------------ Dear Colleagues,

We are organising a conference between the 17th and 21st of June, 2019, in Leiden celebrating Aad van der Vaart's contributions to statistics on the occasion of his 60th birthday.If you are interested in participating, please register as soon as possible on the conference webpage (we have only limited space at the conference venue and registration is on first come first served base): http://pub.math.leidenuniv.nl/~schmidthieberaj/aadbirthday/index.html (if the link does not work, please try to copy it to the web browser.)

The conference fee is 200 euro, which includes the welcome reception on Monday afternoon, and sandwich lunch, coffee and tea during the conference. To complete your registration, please send the registration fee to the following account:

Bank name: Rabobank account number: 0102468869 IBAN: NL78RABO 0102468869 Swiftcode: RABONL2U in the name of: Universiteit Leiden cs Fac. W&N

*mention:* SAPnummer 2009008062 and your name

We will regularly check the account and will send you a confirmation letter once we received the registration fee.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us (via the email address: b.t.szabo@math.leidenuniv.nl).

Best wishes and hope to see you next year in Leiden, Subhashis Ghoshal Mathisca de Gunst Jacqueline Meulman Stéphanie van der Pas Johannes Schmidt-Hieber Botond Szabo Harry van Zanten