Dear All,

Statistica Sinica will host a special session on its new category
"Editor Invited Thesis Paper" at ICSA 2008 Applied Statistics
Symposium held on June 5-7 at Embassy Suite Hotel in
Piscataway, New Jersey.

The special session will feature "Tracking of Multiple Merging and
Splitting Targets: A Statistical Perspective" by Curtis Storlie etc,
with commentators Drs. Sumeetpal S. Singh, Patrick J. Wolf, and
Ying-Nian Wu.

This new category is designed to promote works by new PhDs.
Papers chosen for this category might not be perfect but show great
promise in important areas. Our invited experts will comment on
each paper for its further development.

The symposium is open for registration. The instructions for abstract
submissions and other details can be found at
http://stat.rutgers.edu/icsa2008/.

With all the best,
Karen Li---on behalf of the Co-Editors
Editorial Assistant
Statistica Sinica