This year's workshop celebrated the 65th birthday of Kanti Mardia who was the founder of the LASR Workshops and has been the motivating force behind the event for the last 25 years. The themes this year have been directional data, shape and image analysis. These reflect Kanti's research interests and represent important areas in current statistical research. The format was a mixture of invited and contributed talks, as well as posters.

This workshop was organised as part of the twinning arrangement between the University of Leeds and the Indian Statistical Institute.

The workshop recieved funding from the London Mathematical Society.

A review of the workshop written by Fred Bookstein (University of Michigan, USA) is available.

Invited speakers included:

• Julian Besag (University of Washington, USA),
• Fred Bookstein (University of Michigan, USA),
• Tim Cootes (University of Manchester),
• Ian Dryden (University of Nottingham),
• Colin Goodall (AT&T Labs, USA),
• Peter Jupp (University of St Andrews),
• Wilfrid Kendall (University of Warwick),
• John Kent (University of Leeds),
• Josef Kittler (University of Surrey),
• Toby Lewis (University of East Anglia),
• Alf Linney (University College London),
• Nitis Mukhopadhyay (University of Connecticut, USA),
• Azriel Rosenfeld (University of Maryland, USA).

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Professor John T Kent and Dr Robert G. Aykroyd .

CONTACT DETAILS:

	Dr Robert G Aykroyd,	e-mail: workshop@maths.leeds.ac.uk
	LASR Workshop,
	Department of Statistics,
	University of Leeds,	tel: +44 (0)113 2335167
	Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK	fax: +44 (0)113 2335102

  World-Wide Web: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/Statistics/workshop/