NEWS & EVENTS

8:00–9:00 am

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Registration

9:00–9:15 am

Call to Order and Introduction

Ned Thomas, William and Stephanie Sick Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University

Katherine Ensor, Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics; Director (CoFES), Rice University

9:15–10:00 am

Financial Reform: Now Comes the Hard Part
Dexter Senft, Morgan Stanley, Managing Director

10:00–10:15 am

Break

10:15–11:00 am

Extreme Risk Management: Fusion of Best Practice from the Intelligence and Financial Communities
Christina Ray, Senior Managing Director, Omnis, Marketing Intelligence

11:00–11:45 am

Risk Assessment in Energy Trading
Ginger Koev, Hewlett-Packard Company, Manager in Demand Forecasting

11:45–12:00 pm

Open Mic Session

12:00–1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30–2:15 pm

Using Ensembles of Simple Models to Understand the Housing Market
Hadley Wickham, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Rice University

2:15–3:00 pm

Identifying and Dealing with the Approach of Bears and their Departure
Ricardo Affinito, Statistics Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University

3:00–3:15 pm

Break

3:15–4:00 pm

Quant Gaffes
John Dobelman, Professor in Practice of Statistics, Rice University

4:00–4:45 pm

Houses Built on Quicksand: The Panic of 2007-2008
Edward Williams, Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management, Jones Graduate Business School, Rice University

5:00 pm

Adjourn

5:00–6:00 pm

Social, Martel Hall

6:00 pm

Banquet
Modern Statistics, Wealth and Security
Katherine Bennett Ensor, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics; Director, CoFES 

9:00–9:45 am

 Does Debt Matter?
Kyle Bass, Founder of Hayman Capital Management, L.P.

9:45–10:30 am

The Destructive power of Debt
James Thompson, Noah Harding Professor of Statistics, Rice University

10:30–10:45 am

Break

10:45–11:30 am

Today's Economic and Political Climate from the Standpoint of a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
William Sirakos Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Economist and Capital Markets Division Head, Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc.

11:30–12:15 pm

Convergence vs. Convexity: How Should Mature Economies Grow, and How Have They Grown?
Brian Domitrovic, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Sam Houston State University

12:15–12:30 pm

Open Mic Session

12:30–1:30 pm

Closing Reception at the Baker Institute – Doré Commons