Advances in Asymptotic Probability continues through 17 December, especially recognizing our esteemed colleague and friend on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Sourav Chatterjee and Persi Diaconis will represent Stanford among the conference speakers, joining others from UCLA, NYU, MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and coming from locations such as Kyoto, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, London and Berlin, to list just a few.