We are pleased to announce the Annual Peter Hall Conference to be held on May 10 and 11th, 2019. The conference is organized by the Department of Statistics, UC Davis and will take place in the Mathematical Sciences Building on the UC Davis campus. The theme of the conference this year is Statistics and Machine learning. The 1 1/2 days conference will feature presentations on graph and network analysis, tensor data analysis, optimal transport, manifold learning and related applications, and will also include a poster session. A limited number of travel stipends for PhD-students and PostDocs is available.