On behalf of Andrzej Kozek, I would like to invite you to the seminar at Macquarie. Details follow. Rafal Kulik From Monday March 5th until 27th March 2007 we will have a visitor from Germany, Professor Rolf Reiss, who works on statistics of extremes with many applications in Actuarial Sciences and Finances. Professor Reiss wrote four successful monographs: M. Falk, J. Husler and R. D. Reiss, Laws of small numbers: extremes and rare events, Second, revised and extended edition, Birkhauser , Basel, 2004; R. D. Reiss and M. Thomas, Statistical analysis of extreme values , Second edition, Birkhauser , Basel, 2001; R. D. Reiss, A course on point processes , Springer , New York, 1993; R. D. Reiss, Approximate distributions of order statistics, Springer , New York, 1989; Professor Reiss will give a seminar A Spectral Decomposition in Multivariate Extreme at our Department on March 20th at 2pm. He will also take part in our small seminar on 12 and 26th March in our Department. You are welcome to join us Regards Andrzej ============================== Associate Professor Andrzej S. Kozek Macquarie University, DEFS Department of Statistics North Ryde NSW 2109 Australia tel. 61-2-9850 8556 http://www.stat.mq.edu.au/staff/andrzej_kozek email: akozek@efs.mq.edu.au