The conference will be held on 21-25 April 2008 at Będlewo near Poznań. Będlewo is the Mathematical Research and Conference Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers sharing an interest in a variety of aspects of statistics and its applications and offer them a possibility to discuss current developments in these subjects. The format of this meeting will involve plenary talks and sessions with contributed talks. We are also planning a special session with talks by graduate students.

The conference will mainly focus on a number of topics. The topics selected so far include estimation, prediction and testing in linear models, robustness of relevant statistical methods, estimation of variance components appearing in linear models, generalizations to nonlinear models, design and analysis of experiments, including optimality and comparison of linear experiments.

The work of young scientists has a special position in the LinStat'08 to encourage and promote them. The best poster as well as the best talk will be chosen. Prizes will be awarded to graduate students or scientists with a recently completed Ph.D. Prize-winning works will be widely publicized and promoted by the conference.

The Conference is endorsed by the Council of Statistics of the Committee of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science as a 34^th conference in the series "Mathematical Statistics".