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Statistics 2007 - Statistics under One Umbrella
Latin American Congress for Probability and Mathematical Statistics
The conference was held in Jerusalem, Israel, December 18–20, 2006, in honour of Ester’s recent retirement from the Hebrew University. The general theme of the conference was statistics and its applications and was aimed at highlighting 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.
The program included 41 invited papers presented by Pieter Allaart , Robert J. Aumann, Maya Bar Hillel, Lawrence D. Brown, Thomas F. Bruss, Herman Chernoff, Israel David, Thomas Ferguson, Joseph Glaz, Larry Goldstein, Eitan Greenshtein, Allan Gut, Sergiu Hart, Theodore P. Hill, Abram Kagan, Ioannis Karatzas, Yuri Kifer, Abba M. Krieger, Vladimir V. Mazalov, Isaac Meilijson, Ingram Olkin, Emanuel Parzen, Jerome K. Percus, Ora Engelberg-Percus, Danny Pfefferman, Moshe Pollak, John Preater, Ernst Presman, Yosef Rinott, Uwe Saint-Mont, Marco Scarsini, Moshe Shaked, Larry Shepp, David O. Siegmund, Isaac M. Sonin, Wolfgang Stadje, Krzysztof Szajowski, Mitsushi Tamaki, Benjamin Weiss, Shelemyahu Zacks, and Cun-Hui Zhang.
The topics covered included Empirical Bayes Procedures, Bayesian Statistics, Optimal Stopping, Applied and Theoretical Statistics, Distribution Theory and Probability, Dynamic Programming and Gambling, Prophet Inequalities, Game Theory and Secretary Problems. The conference terminated with a brief retrospective by David O. Siegmund and a rejoinder by Ester Samuel-Cahn. A total of some 120 statisticians from Israel and from abroad attended the conference. The program was prepared by the program committee - Isaac Meilijson, Chair, Abba M. Krieger and David O. Siegmund. The organizing committee included Yoel Haitovsky, Chair, Gad Nathan, and Moshe Pollak. The conference was sponsored by the Marcy Bogen Chair of Statistics, the Center for the Study of Rationality and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, by the Israel Statistical Association, by the Central Bureau of Statistics, and by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Full details on the program can be found at: http://www.esterconference.huji.ac.il/.
Participants at the final session of the Book of Ester Conference
The conference "Statistics 2007 - Statistics under One Umbrella" was the first joint statistical meeting of German statisticians. It attracted more than 650 participants from more than 25 countries and in this respect, it was the largest meeting ever organized solely by German statistical societies. There were 10 outstanding keynote speakers (G van den Berg, R. J. Carroll, A. Collins, J. Copas, V. Didelez, R. Korn, H. Lütkepohl, H. Pesaran, J. Pfanzagl, D. Tyler) and numerous other invited speakers.
The meeting also included the annual meetings of the German Region of the International Biometrical Society (IBS) and the German Statistical Society, respectively.
The meeting was organized by the "Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik" (DAGStat), the newly established consortium of 11 statistical societies and associations domiciled in Germany. The chair of the DAGStat, Göran Kauermann, expressed his satisfaction about the meeting. He said "The meeting brought different statisticians together, biometricians, econometricians, mathematicians and a lot more. The conference built bridges of collaboration and clearly exhibited the interdisciplinary role of statistics.” The next joint statistical meeting of the DAGStat is planned for 2009, the location will be revealed shortly.
Tatyana Krivobokova
The Tenth CLAPEM (Latin American Congress for Probability and Mathematical Statistics) occurred in Lima at the end of February. The meeting was a great success with many participants from Latin America and especially more than 100 participants from Peru and another 100 from other countries. There were two courses by Jim Ramsay and Claudio Landim, conferences by Regina Liu, Antonio Cuevas, Montserrat Fuentes, Nancy Garcia, Wilfrid Kendall, Tom Kurtz, Domenico Marinucci, John Rice, Alexandra Schmidt, Winfried Stutte and Ralph Neininger. There were 13 Thematic Sessions and Posters with the enthusiastic participation of young researchers of the region and other international centres.
During the X CLAPEM, the Latin American Chapter of the Bernoulli Society realized an Assembly where decide to change its name to Sociedad Latino Americana de Probabilidad e Estadistica Matematica (SLAPEM). A campaign for new members for the SLAPEM is in course.
Pablo Ferrari
Chair, Latin America Regional Committee