Program
January 2016
| Wednesday, 27 January 2016 | ||
| 17.00 – 19.00 | Welcome and registration/ 17.30 Software Installation | Philipp Ott/Simon Scheidegger |
| Thursday, 28 January 2016 | ||
| 09.30 – 10.15 | Introduction to Computational Economics | Ken Judd |
| 10.30 - 12.00 | Principles of Numerical Computing | Todd Munson |
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Foundations of Optimization |
Todd Munson/ Stefan Wild |
| 15.15 - 16.45 | Tutorials |
Todd Munsion/ Stefan Wild |
| Friday, 29 January 2016 | ||
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Continuous Optimization Algorithms |
Todd Munson/ Stefan Wild |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Structural Estimation I | Ken Judd |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Structural Estimation I | Ken Judd |
| 15.45 - 17.15 | Complementarity | Todd Munson |
| 17.30 - | Office hours | |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner, Restaurant Zeughauskeller | |
| Saturday, 30 January 2016 | ||
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Supergames | Sevin Yeltekin |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Supergames in Matlab | Sevin Yeltekin |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch (Pizza delivery) | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Approximation and Quadrature | Ken Judd |
| Sunday, 31 January 2016 | ||
| Whole day off - enjoy Zurich and its surroundings | ||
| For those who want to work: the conference room will be open from 10.00 - 18.00 h | ||
| Monday, 1 February 2016 | ||
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Stochastic Games | Sevin Yeltekin |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Dynamic Programming | Ken Judd |
| 12.45 - 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Optimization without Derivatives | Stefan Wild/ Todd Munson |
| 15.45 - 17.15 | Poster Presentation | |
| Tuesday, 2 February 2016 | ||
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Parallel Programming I | Simon Scheidegger |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Python for Scientific Computing | Philip Eisenhauer |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch Talk: Applications of Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization at the Petascale | Olaf Schenk |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Parallel Programming II | Simon Scheidegger |
| 15.45 - 17.15 | Software Engineering for Economists I | Philipp Eisenhauer |
| 17.30 - | Office hours, homework | |
| Wednesday, 3 February 2016 | ||
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Projection Methods | Johannes Brumm |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Time Iteration | Johannes Brumm |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Sparse grids | Simon Scheidegger |
| 15.45 - 17.15 | Software Tutorial | Simon Scheidegger/ Johannes Brumm |
| Thursday, 4 February | ||
| 09.30 - 11.00 | Software Engineering for Economists II | Philipp Eisenhauer |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Dynamic Optimal Taxation | Ken Judd |
| 13.00 - 13.15 | Good-bye | Ken Judd |