General Information The conference lectures will survey major ideas and recent results in the area of inference from genetic data, while also suggesting important future directions; the areas to be surveyed will include Markov-chain Monte Carlo techniques, modern methods for human linkage analysis, and patterns for genome sharing. Elizabeth Thompson's lectures will be delivered in Room U115 of the newly constructed Materials and Minerals (M&M) Building which overlooks Portage Lake. Three rooms will be set aside in Fisher Hall, a short distance away, for group discussions. Another classroom will be converted into a coffee room/lounge. Travel support and a room/board allowance will be available for approximately 30 participants. We hope to attract a diverse group of researchers to our conference, and applications from women, members of underrepresented groups, recent Ph.D.s, and graduate students are especially welcome. We expect that support will be available for beginning and established researchers in the areas represented by the conference; for mathematical scientists wishing to learn about recent developments in these fields; and for faculty members at teaching-intensive schools who wish to establish a research base of their own. Graduate students and new researchers are required to have a letter of recommendation. The application deadline will be May 1, 1999. Participants will be housed in Wadsworth Hall on the campus of MTU, unless they opt to stay in the MTU student apartments or in local hotels. Attendees can take advantage of an attractive room-and-board package, or be given a meal allowance to use as they see fit. Participants will have access to all the athletic and library facilities at MTU, and they will have accounts in the Mathematical Sciences Department SUN-Sparc Workstation Lab.