Dear colleagues, we would be glad to welcome you to VMV 2017, which will take place in Bonn, Germany, on September 25-27. Register by the end of this week (August 25) via <http://vmv2017.cs.uni-bonn.de/index.php/participate/registration> http://vmv2017.cs.uni-bonn.de/index.php/participate/registration to take advantage of the Early Bird rate, and reserve your hotel via <http://www.bonn-region.de/events/vmv-konferenz-2017.html> http://www.bonn-region.de/events/vmv-konferenz-2017.html before August 28 to take advantage of the rooms that we have blocked for the event. You can view the conference program at <http://vmv2017.cs.uni-bonn.de/index.php/program/conference-programm> http://vmv2017.cs.uni-bonn.de/index.php/program/conference-programm Best regards, Matthias Hullin Reinhard Klein Angela Yao Thomas Schultz VMV 2017 Co-Chairs