1. The Penalized Likelihood for Detecting Mortality Deceleration • Silvio Cabral Patricio , Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop), University of Southern Denmark.

2. Patterns in Subpopulation Mortality at the Subnational Level • Ameer Dharamshi , University Of Washington; Monica Alexander, University of Toronto; Celeste Winant, University of California, Berkeley; Magali Barbieri , Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED).

3. Mortality under-Registration by Ethnic Groups in Colombia • John-Jairo Loja , Southampton University; Sabu S. S. Padmadas, University of Southampton; Jason Hilton, University of Southampton.

4. Death Expectancy H1 -- An Alternative Measure for Longevity • Niklas Ullrich , University of Rostock; Carl P. Schmertmann, Florida State University; Roland Rau, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

5. Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality by Detailed Age in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Using Demographic and Health Surveys • Andrea Verhulst , Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Julio E. Romero-Prieto , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Michel Guillot, University of Pennsylvania & INED.