The Hotelling Lectures are an annual event at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, featuring three talks by a guest speaker. The first lectures were given by David R. Cox in 1980, and in subsequent years by Herman Chernoff, Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Frank Hampel, David Brillinger, David Kendall, Persi Diaconis, Pal Revesz, Willem van Zwet, C.R. Rao, Bradley Efron, Lucien LeCam, Peter Bickel, Ulf Grenander, Larry Shepp, David Donoho, David Siegmund, Herbert Robbins, Lawrence D. Brown, Nancy Reid, S.R.S. Varadhan, Stuart Geman, Iain Johnstone, Peter Hall, and Ruth J. Williams. The 2007 Hotelling Lectures were given by Professor Terry Speed of the University of California at Berkeley. The 2008 Hotelling Lectures will be delivered by Prof. Thomas Kurtz of University of Wisconsin during the week of April 7-11, 2008.