The workshop will consist of a series of invited and contributed presentations with discussion.

Invited speakers include Rudy Beran (UC Davis), Lawrence Brown (The Wharton School), Tianxi Cai (Harvard School of Public Health), Emmanuel Candes (Stanford University), Xu Cheng (University of Pennsylvania), Bruce E. Hansen (University of Wisconsin), Susan Murphy (University of Michigan), Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge), Alexander Tsybakov (CREST-ENSAE), Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley), Cun-Hui Zhang (Rutgers University)

Workshop program:    Wednesday July 4, 2012    Thursday July 5, 2012    Friday July 6, 2012

We have reserved blocks of rooms at the following centrally located hotels.
Participants (except for invited speakers) are requested to do their own booking. In order to be eligible for the reduced workshop rate you need to mention the reservation code "WESI 2012" when booking the room.

Hotel Rathauspark	Standard room (1 pers.) € 117 per night (including breakfast) Business room (2 pers.) € 130 per night (including breakfast) Please use this reservation form(PDF) and send the completed form directly to reservierung.rathauspark@austria-trend.at or fax it to +43 1 40412 761. Deadline for reservations is May 23, 2012.
Hotel Regina	Double room single use € 105 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 120 per night (including breakfast) Please use this reservation form(word document) and send the completed form directly to reservation@kremslehnerhotels.at. Deadline for reservations is May 16, 2012.
Hotel Zipser	Single room € 79 or € 89 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 99 or € 119 per night (including breakfast) Please make your reservation by sending email to office@zipser.at. Deadline for reservations is May 10, 2012.
Hotel Atlanta	Single room € 75 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 89 per night (including breakfast) Please make your reservation by sending email to hotel.atlanta@aon.at. Deadline for reservations is June 3, 2012.
Hotel Alexander	Single room € 63 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 82 per night (including breakfast) Please make your reservation by sending email to hotel@alexander.co.at. Deadline for reservations is May 14, 2012.
Hotel Academia (dormitory)	Single room € 50 per night (including breakfast) Double room € 70 per night (including breakfast) Please use this reservation form(word document) and send the completed form directly to reservation@academiahotels.at. Deadline for reservations is June 12, 2012.
Further hotels (no blocks of rooms reserved)	http://hotel.madara.at/en/ http://www.hotel-lehrerhaus.at/EN/ http://www.vho.at/andreas/index.en.html

Vienna is conveniently reached by air through Vienna International Airport (VIE), or by train via the Austrian Federal Railroad.

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