PLACES 2013 (Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software), colocated with ETAPS, will be held on 23 March in Rome. We have a very interesting programme (http://places13.di.fc.ul.pt/programme) of 10 state-of-the-art contributions on various topics relating to concurrency and communication. For registration and info, see the ETAPS web site: http://www.etaps.org/2013 Please join us in Rome! Wim Vanderbauwhede Nobuko Yoshida