The Department of Statistics and Data Science proudly presented a seminar with Nobel Laureate Lars Peter Hansen on October 17, 2023, titled "Risk, Ambiguity, and Misspecification: Decision Theory, Robust Control, and Statistics."
Lars Peter Hansen is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is a leading expert in economic dynamics who works at the forefront of economic thinking and modeling, drawing approaches from macroeconomics, finance, and statistics. He is the recipient of the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also known as the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Dynamic Economics, the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences, and the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy