2010 News
The 2010 Institute on Computational Economics (ICE10)
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/ .
NOTE THAT THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 9, 2010.
E-mail inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Pachon:
j-boobar@uchicago.edu or
jsb2@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
