ICE 2012 Daily Schedule

All classes, workshops, presentations and tutorials will be held in Room C-08 of the Booth School of Business on the Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago.

When
What
Sunday, July 15, 2012
4:00pm - 6:00pm Software Installation Clinic, Benjamin S. Skrainka. East Commons Lounge, South Campus Residence Hall
Monday, July 16, 2012
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome: Kenneth Judd, Director of ICE
9:15am - 10:15am Optimization and Equations: Connections Between Economics and Numerical Analysis, Kenneth Judd. AMPL files (WinZip archive), Supporting papers (WinZip archive)
10:15am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 12:30pm Numerical Optimization for Economists, Todd Munson.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:30pm Workshop, software tutorials, demonstrations, exercises, Kenneth Judd
3:30pm - 5:00pm Constrained Optimization Approaches to Structural Estimation, Che-Lin Su. Code for Structural Estimation (WinZip archive)
5:00pm - 6:00pm Optimizers, Hessians, and Other Dangers, Benjamin S. Skrainka.
Source Code Management with Git, Benjamin S. Skrainka.
6:30pm - 7:00pm Mandatory Security Briefing
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
9:00 am - 10:30 am

Approximation Methods and Quadrature Methods, Kenneth Judd.

10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Numerical Optimization for Economists, Todd Munson.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:30pm Workshop, software tutorials, demonstrations, exercises, Kenneth Judd.
3:30pm - 5:00pm Constrained Optimization Approaches to Structural Estimation II, Che-Lin Su.
5:00pm - 6:00pm Poster Session
6:30pm - 9:45pm Dinner at Goose Island Brewery
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
9:00 am - 10:30 am Dynamic Programming: An Overview
Dynamic Programming with Shape Preservation
Dynamic Programming with Hermite Information
Dynamic Programming with Shape Preservation and Hermite Information
Dynamic Programming with Piecewise Linear Interpolation
Parallel Dynamic Programming
Dynamic Programming for Portfolio Problems
Kenneth Judd
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Numerical Optimization for Economists: Complementarity Problems, Todd Munson.
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:30pm Constrained Optimization Approaches to Structural Estimation III, Che-Lin Su.
3:30pm - 5:00pm Software for DP, Kenneth Judd
5:00pm - 6:00pm Enhance Your Productivity and Software Quality with Techniques from Silicon Valley, Benjamin S. Skrainka.
6:00pm - 8:00pm Optional Session on Programming (Knitro, fmincon, UNIX, Condor, etc.)
Thursday, July 19, 2012
9:00am - 10:30 am Numerical Methods for Solving Auctions I, Harry Paarsch
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Computing Equilibria of Repeated and Dynamic Games, I, Sevin Yeltekin
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm "Software for Dynamic Programming," Kenneth Judd (NEOS examples: http://www.neos-guide.org/NEOS/index.php/Simple_Economic_Examples, joint work with Martha Ferris, University of Wisconsin)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 5:00pm Projection Methods for Functional Equations, Kenneth Judd
5:00pm - 7:00pm Unix Basics, Benjamin S. Skrainka.
7:00pm - 8:00pm Optional Session on Programming (Knitro, fmincon, UNIX, Condor, etc.)
Friday, July 20, 2012
9:00am - 10:30 am Numerical Methods for Solving Auctions II," Harry Paarsch
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Computing Equilibria of Repeated and Dynamic Games, II, Sevin Yeltekin
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:45pm DICE-CJL & DSICE: Integrated Assessment Models, Yongyang Cai
Related Papers:
Cai, Yongyang, Kenneth L. Judd and Thomas S. Lontzek. (2012). "Continuous-Time Methods for Integrated Assessment Models," Unpublished manuscript, Hoover Institution.
Cai, Yongyang, Kenneth L. Judd and Thomas S. Lontzek. (2012). "DSICE: A Dynamic Stochastic Integrated Model of Climate and Economy," Unpublished manuscript, Hoover Institution.
Cai, Yongyang, Kenneth L. Judd and Thomas S. Lontzek. (2012). "Open Science is Necessary," Nature: Climate Change, 2(5): 299.
2:45pm - 3:15pm Break
3:15pm - 4:45pm High Performance Quadrature Rules: How Numerical Integration Affects a Popular Model of Product Differentiation
A Large Scale Study of the Small Sample Performance of Random Coefficient Models of Demand
Benjamin Skrainka
6:00pm - 10:00pm TGIF at The Pub in Ida Noyes Hall
Saturday, July 21, 2012
All Day Enjoy Chicago, work on projects
Sunday, July 22, 2012
All Day Enjoy Chicago, work on projects
Monday, July 23, 2012
9:00am - 10:30am Accessing Free, Large-scale Computation and Data Resources for Economics Through the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Philip Blood (https://www.xsede.org/)
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Condor: Supercomputing without a Super Budget, and Using Condor: An Introduction, Greg Thain (University of Wisconsin)
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Numerically Stable and Accurate Stochastic Simulation Approaches for Solving Dynamic Economic Models, Serguei Maliar
Related Code: GSSA_Two_Models.zip
3:00pm - 3:30pm Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm GPU Computing, Eric Aldrich
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
9:00am - 10:30am Condor and XSEDE Follow-up: Greg Thain and Philip Blood
10:30am - 12:00pm Office Hours, Project Work Time
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm Solving Dynamic Games with Newton's Method, Karl Schmedders
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 3:30pm VVUQ, Kenneth Judd
Related book: Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification; Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council. (2012). Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models: Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification, Washington, DC: The National Adademies Press.
3:30pm - 5:00pm Finding All Pure-Strategy Equilibria in Dynamic and Static Games with Continuous Strategies, Karl Schmedders.
Related paper: Judd, Kenneth L., Philipp Renner, and Karl Schmedders. (2012). "Finding All Pure-Strategy Equilibria in Games with Continuous Strategies," Unpublished manuscript, Hoover Institution.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
9:00am - 10:30am Project Presentations (3)
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:30pm An economist’s guide to mechanized reasoning, or: My computer just proved 84 impossibility theorems, Colin Rowat, Christoph Lange, and Manfred Kerber
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Project Presentations (2)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm Tackling Multiplicity of Equilibria with Gröbner Bases, Karl Schmedders
Thursday, July 26, 2012
9:00am - 10:30am Office Hours
10:30am - 12:00pm Project Presentations (3)
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm Project Presentations (3)
2:30pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm "Solving OLG Models with Incomplete Markets," Felix Kubler
Friday, July 27, 2012
9:00am - 6:00pm Initiative for Computational Economics 2012 Conference
Saturday July 28, 2012
9:00am-12:00pm Initiative for Computational Economics 2012 Conference

 

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