2020 ICES VI Reg Guide

FEATURED SPEAKERS
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Tuesday, June 16
9:00 A.M. – 10:10 A.M.
Roberto Rigobon
Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of
Management and a professor of applied economics at the
MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an economist with
research interests in international economics, monetary
economics, and development economics. He is one of two
founding members of the Billion Prices Project and will talk at
ICES VI about the challenge of developing alternative measures
for economic statistics.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
AND CLOSING CEREMONY
Thursday, June 18
4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Xiao-Li Meng
Meng, founding editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, is
the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor and former chair of statistics
at Harvard and former dean of the Harvard University Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). He is well known for his
depth and breadth in research, innovation and passion in
pedagogy, and vision and effectiveness in administration,
as well as his engaging style as a speaker and writer. Meng’s
interests range from the theoretical foundations of statistical
inferences to statistical methods and computation to
applications in natural, social, and medical sciences and
engineering. He has received numerous awards, authored more
than 120 publications, and delivered more than 400 research
presentations and public speeches. He is also the author of “The
XL-Files,” a column in the IMS Bulletin.
MORE ONLINE
See the full list of sessions at ww2.amstat.org/ices under the Program tab.
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