Dear colleagues,
Your graduate program directors should have received this announcement
earlier this month. I am sending this to you as a backup.
Thanks, Ken Judd
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The 2010 Chicago-Argonne Institute on Computational Economics
The 2010 Institute on Computational Economics (ICE10) will be held at
the University of Chicago from July 19 to July 31, 2010. ICE10 will be
a two-week summer program for young scholars interested in applying
computational methods to economics.
ICE10 continues the format of ICE07, ICE08, and ICE09, with lectures
and tutorials on topics in numerical analysis, their applications in
economics, and their implementation in a variety of software tools.
Participants will work on and present group projects, and will be able
to speak with the lecturers about their own work during "office hours".
To facilitate the hands-on computational experience at ICE10 and the
ability to use those tools after ICE10, software companies and
universities who distribute the state-of-the-art computational
software -- AMPL, Knitro (Ziena), Filter (Dundee), PATH (University of
Wisconsin), and SNOPT (Stanford OSL) -- have agreed to give ICE10
participants licenses for their products free of charge until the
student finishes their Ph. D.
The aim of ICE10 is to create a collaborative community of
computational scientists and economists by training young scholars
(advanced graduate students and post-doctoral students) in state-of-
the-art numerical methods and computer technology, and their
application to economic modeling and analysis.
Summer institute activities will begin with formal tutorials on a
range of topics - numerical optimization, dynamic programming,
solution methods for dynamic economic models, and computationally
intensive methods in statistics - followed by workshops that
familiarize participants with computer software applied to economic
models. These tutorial sessions are presented by a mix of
computational scientists and economists - Ken Judd, Todd Munson, Karl
Schmedders and Che-Lin Su. ICE10 participants will also be organized
into small groups that will undertake computational projects using the
methods presented in the tutorials. Participants can either choose
from a list of problems formulated by the organizers or formulate
their own computational projects. The second week will focus on
seminar presentations by individuals applying state-of-the-art
numerical methods to economics problems, and to ICE10 participants'
presentations of group project results.
Graduate students from all universities, including those in Europe and
Asia, are encouraged to apply to the Institute. All applications will
be considered equally; neither the citizenship of an applicant nor his
current place of study will be a consideration in our acceptance
decisions.
There will be no fee for participating in ICE10. We will provide
housing for participants at no charge. Participants are responsible
for transportation costs and for their meals. ICE10 is funded by the
University of Chicago, Economics Research Center, the Computation
Institute, the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, and the
Milton Friedman Institute, and is hosted by the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business.
For more information on topics, speakers, life in Hyde Park and
Chicago, and application procedures, see
<<http://ice.uchicago.edu/>http://ice.uchicago.edu/>http://ice.uchicago.edu/
.
NOTE THAT THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 9, 2010.
E-mail inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Pachon
( <<mailto:j-boobar_at_uchicago.edu>mailto:jsb2_at_uchicago.edu><mailto:j-boobar_at_uchicago.edu
>jsb2_at_uchicago.edu )
Sincerely,
Lars Hansen, University of Chicago
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago
Kenneth Judd, Hoover Institution
Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory
Che-Lin Su, University of Chicago
Karl Schmedders, University of Zurich and Northwestern University
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 19:27:26 EDT
