Please find below the scientific program of the conference Frontier Research In Theoretical Statistics 2000 which will be held in Eindhoven on August 17-19. More information, including a registration form, can be found on the Web: http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/FRITS.htm If you want to attend, please take a minute to register. John Einmahl Axel Munk ******************************************************************* PROGRAM Thursday, August 17 10.30-11.10 Willem R. van Zwet: A remark on consistent estimation 11.30-12.10 Robert Serfling: Quantile functions for multivariate analysis: approaches and applications 14.30-15.10 Sándor Csörgö: The smoothing dichotomy in nonparametric regression 15.10-15.50 Martien C.A. van Zuijlen: Estimation of the mean of stationary and nonstationary Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and sheets 16.20-17.00 Winfried Stute: Nonparametric detection of discontinuities in binary regression 17.00-17.40 Piet Groeneboom: Estimators for deconvolution Friday, August 18 10.30-11.10 Madan Puri: Conditional U--Statistics with applications in discriminant analysis, ARMA processes and hidden Markov models 11.30-12.10 Georg Neuhaus: Some tests for testing cancerogenicity 14.30-15.10 Laurens de Haan: Extremes in C[0,1] 15.10-15.50 Ross Leadbetter: Rice's formula and Palm distributions revisited - some theory and application 16.20-17.00 Manfred Denker: Local limit theorems 17.00-17.40 Pál Révész: Large balls left empty by a critical branching Wiener field Saturday, August 19 10.30-11.10 Richard Gill: Quantum tomography as a statistical inverse problem 11.30-12.10 Bernard Mair: An exact representation for PET probabilities 12.10-12.50 Arnoud van Rooij: Hausdorff convergence of Fourier series and integrals =========================================================================== This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===========================================================================