[grads] Fwd: [Optimization-society] The Chicago-Argonne Institute on Computational Economics - 2007 (fwd)

[Fred J. Hickernell]

Students and colleagues, this may be of interest to you.  Fred

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Hemanshu Kaul <kaul at math.iit.edu>
> Date: March 29, 2007 10:31:10 AM CDT
> To: "Fred J. Hickernell" <hickernell at iit.edu>
> Subject: [Optimization-society] The Chicago-Argonne Institute on  
> Computational Economics - 2007 (fwd)
>
>
> Would this summer program be of interest to any of our grad students?
>
> Hemanshu
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:54:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Che-Lin Su <clsu at stanford.edu>
> To: optimization-society at list.informs.org
> Subject: [Optimization-society] The Chicago-Argonne Institute on  
> Computational
>     Economics - 2007
>
>
> Please pass around this announcement to fellow students and  
> professors.
>
> For more information on application procedures, see
> http://ice.uchicago.edu/
>
> Thank you.
>
> ==============================================
>
> The Chicago-Argonne Institute on Computational Economics - 2007
>
> The Economic Research Center at the University of Chicago in  
> conjunction
> with the Argonne National Laboratory announces the 2007 Institute on
> Computational Economics (ICE07). ICE07 will be a nine-day summer  
> program
> for young scholars interested in applying computational methods to
> economics, and will be held at the University of Chicago from July  
> 30 --
> August 9, 2007.
>
> ICE07 introduces three new features to the ICE workshop approach:
>         First, participants will work on group projects and present  
> them.
>         Second, various software companies and universities who  
> distribute
> the current state-of-the-art computational software -- AMPL, Knitro,
> Filter, PATH, SNOPT -- have agreed to give ICE07 participants free
> licenses
> for their products throughout their graduate student career.
>         Third, tutorial speakers have agreed to schedule "office  
> hours"
> where individual participants can discuss computational dimensions of
> their
> research.
>
> The aim of ICE07 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 in the first week will include 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. The tutorial  
> sessions
> are presented by a mix of computational scientists and economists -  
> Ken
> Judd, Sven Leyffer, Todd Munson, Peter Rossi, and Che-Lin Su.
>
> ICE07 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 ICE07
> participants' presentations of group project results.
>
> Graduate students and post-doctoral 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 ICE07. We will provide  
> housing
> for participants at no charge. Participants are responsible for
> transportation costs and for most of their meals.
>
> For more information on topics, speakers, and application  
> procedures, see
> http://ice.uchicago.edu/.
>
>
> NOTE: The application DEADLINE is April 13, 2007.
>
> E-mail inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Pachon ( jsb2 (at)
> uchicago
> (dot)       edu )
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lars Hansen, University of Chicago
>
> James J. Heckman, University of Chicago
>
> Kenneth Judd, Hoover Institution
>
> Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory
>
> Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory
>
>
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