WELCOME

to

THE BOOK OF ESTER SAMUEL-CAHN: FROM EMPIRICAL BAYES TO PROPHET INEQUALITIES

We welcome you to this conference in honor of Professor Ester Samuel-Cahn, who recently retired from the Hebrew University.

The general theme of the conference is statistics and its applications. Ester's lifelong commitment and contributions to the profession and science of statistics, her endless fostering of young statisticians and her impressive record of teaching statistical theory are highly respected by her many colleagues and her countless former students. Her achievements have earned her worldwide recognition and many awards, including the Israel Prize and elected membership of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters. We all feel Ester merits such a conference and are happy that you can join us in honoring her. We wish you all an interesting and enjoyable conference.

Isaac Meilijson, Chair               Yoel Haitovsky, Chair

Abba M. Krieger                        Gad Nathan

David O. Siegmund                   Moshe Pollak

Program Committee                        Organizing Committee