Key Dates February 15, 2005: Deadline for all proposals for contributed sessions. Those wishing to propose contributed sessions should contact Paul Glasserman and Peter Glynn. The proposal should include the session title, organizer name, four speakers, and titles for each of the four talks. March 10, 2005 (extended to March 31st, 2005): Deadline for all abstracts for both invited and contributed talks. If you have been invited to participate by a session chair, you must submit your title/abstract by this date. If you are submitting a contributed talk for the meeting that is independent of an organized session, you must also submit your title/abstract by this date. Any such talk that is accepted by the Program Committee will then be placed into an appropriate session when the final program is created. When submitting abstracts, please use the abstract submission software to be found at the Abstract Submissions subpage to this website. April 10, 2005 (extended to April 30th, 2005): Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions. Poster Session: We will be offering a Poster Paper Session for this meeting. It is primarily intended for Ph.D. students. We ask those interested in participating in the Poster Session to contact Peter Glynn (email: glynn “at” stanford.edu) with the proposed topic for the poster. Students should include a supporting statement from their faculty advisor. Please note that there may be space limitations for the number of posters permitted.