Dear all BigInsight friends, welcome back after a hopefully relaxing and inspiring summer! The next months are full of events. Here are some highlights:

• BigInsight 2016 Workshop: Monday 24 October. Hold the day!
• Scientific Advisory committee visits BigInsight 24-26 October 2016.
• BigInsight Wednesday Lunches will start soon again! This semester we will focus on our own projects mostly.
• Tuesday Stats Seminars start already Tuesday 16 August. Join this seminar series to keep updated about methods in statistics and machine learning.
• Peter Müller (https://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pmueller/) visits BigInsight from 4.8 until December 2016.
• Per Mykland (http://galton.uchicago.edu/~mykland/) visits BigInsight until June 2017.
• Lan Zhang (http://lanzhang.people.uic.edu/) visits BigInsight until June 2017.