The Ninth International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, in Celebration of C. R. Rao's 80th Birthday, will be held in the historic city of Hyderabad, in Andra Pradesh, India, on December 9-13, 2000. The program will start with a two-day short course on recent advances in Matrix Theory, with Special Reference to Application in Statistics, on Saturday, December 9, and Sunday, December 10, 2000. This will be followed by presentation of research papers for the next three days; these papers may then be submitted for publication in a refereed professional research journal.

There will be a number of invited and contributed papers sessions. Registration fee is US$60 (regular) and $30 (for students and retired persons) for  the conference, and $10 for the banquet. The fee for the short course is $25.

Organizing Committees
    International:
    R. W. Farebrother, S. Puntanen (vice-chair), G. P. H. Styan, H. J. Werner (chair).
    National:
    R. Bhatia, P. Bhimasankaram, V. Narayana, M. Sudhakar Rao, B. G. Sidharth, U. Suryaprakash, R. J. R. Swamy, P. Udayasree, K. Viswanath.

Information about the scientific program can be obtained from:
    P. Bhimasankaram: pbhim@hotmail.com
    S. Puntanen: sjp@uta.fi
    K. Viswanath: kvsm@uohyd.ernet.in
    H. J. Werner: werner@united.econ.uni-bonn.de

Information about registration, deadline for submission of papers and local accommodation can be obtained from:
    P. Bhimasankaram: pbhim@hotmail.com
    B. Sidharth: birlasc@hd1.vsnl.net.in
    R. J. R. Swamy: nhasan@ouastr.ernet.in
    K. Viswanath: kvsm@uohyd.ernet.in