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They now form the\ndominant paradigm in artificial intelligence and many fields within the natural\nsciences.  Economists can greatly enhance their modeling and data processing\ncapabilities by exploiting Python's scientific ecosystem.  This course will\ncover the foundations of Python programming and Python scientific libraries, as\nwell as showing how they can be used in economic applications for rapid\ndevelopment and high performance computing.\n\n## Times and Dates\n\n* Dates: March 25-27, 2024\n* Times: 9:30 -- 12:30 and 14:00 -- 17:00 \n* Location: room HQ2-3B-748 (in-person participants) \n\n## Instructors\n\n[Chase Coleman](https://github.com/cc7768) is a computational economist based at New York University where\nhe is a visiting assistant professor. He was an early contributor at QuantEcon\nand, along with other members of QuantEcon, has given lectures and workshops\non Python, Julia, and other open source computational tools at institutions and\nuniversities all around the world.\n\n[John Stachurski](https://johnstachurski.net/) is a mathematical and\ncomputational economist based at the Australian National University who works on\nalgorithms at the intersection of dynamic programming, Markov dynamics,\neconomics, and finance.  His work is published in journals such as the Journal\nof Finance, the Journal of Economic Theory, Automatica, Econometrica, and\nOperations Research.  In 2016 he co-founded QuantEcon with Thomas J. Sargent. \n\nIn addition, 2011 Nobel Laureate [Thomas J. Sargent](http://www.tomsargent.com/)\nwill join remotely and run a one hour session on the 27th.\n\n\n## Syllabus\n\n* Monday morning: Introduction \n  - Scientific computing: directions and trends (`intro_slides/sci_comp_intro.pdf`)\n  - Python and the AI revolution (`ai_revolution/ai_revolution.pdf`)\n  - A brief tour of Python's massive scientific computing ecosystem (`scientific_python/main.pdf`)\n  - Working with Jupyter (free coding)\n  - A taste of HPC with Python (`fun_with_jax.ipynb`)\n* Monday afternoon: Python basics\n  - Core Python  (`quick_python_intro.ipynb`)\n  - NumPy / SciPy / Matplotlib / Numba (`quick_scientific_python_intro.ipynb`)\n  - Exercises: Simulation (`simulation_exercises.ipynb`)\n  - Exercises: Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients (`lorenz_gini.ipynb`)\n* Tuesday morning: Markov models in Python\n  - Markov chains: Basic concepts (`finite_markov.ipynb`)\n  - Intermezzo: A quick introduction to JAX (`jax_intro.ipynb`)\n  - Wealth distribution dynamics (`wealth_dynamics.ipynb`)\n  - Exercises: Markov chain exercises (`markov_homework.ipynb`)\n* Tuesday afternoon: Dynamic programming\n  - Job search (`job_search.ipynb`)\n  - A simple optimal savings problem (`opt_savings_1.ipynb`)\n  - Alternative algorithms: VFI, HPI and OPI (`opt_savings_2.ipynb`)\n  - The endogenous grid method (`egm.ipynb`)\n* Wednesday morning: Heterogeneous agents\n  - Heterogenous firms (`hopenhayn.ipynb`)\n  - The Aiyagari model (`aiyagari.ipynb`)\n* Wednesday afternoon: Further applications\n  - Sovereign default (`arellano.ipynb`)\n  - The Bianchi overborrowing model (`overborrowing.ipynb`, `bianchi.pdf`)\n\n\n## Software\n\nThe main interface to Python will be either `jupyter-notebook` or `jupyter-lab`.\n\nAccess to the `ipython` REPL will also be useful.\n\nSome work will be done remotely using Google Colab --- a Google account is\nrequired.\n\nRequired Python libraries (much of which is found in the Anaconda Python distribution):\n\n* `numpy`\n* `scipy`\n* `matplotlib`\n* `pandas`\n* `scikit-learn`\n* `statsmodels`\n* `numba`\n* `f2py`\n* `quantecon`\n\n## Useful References\n\n* https://www.anaconda.com/download\n* https://github.com/google/jax/issues/13684 (for JS)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fquantecon%2Fimf_2024","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fquantecon%2Fimf_2024","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fquantecon%2Fimf_2024/lists"}