NEWS & EVENTS

8:30–9:00 am

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Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00–9:20 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Katherine B. Ensor, Professor of Statistics; Director, CoFES

Ramon Gonzalez, Director, Energy and Environment Initiative (EEI)

9:20–10:20 am

Session I: Political Landscape and Changing Market Dynamics
Session Chair: Katherine B. Ensor

ISIL, Ukraine and Energy Markets
Joe Barnes, Bonner Means Baker Fellow, Baker Institute

10:20–10:35 am

Break

10:35–11:30 am

Grounding Energy Market Uncertainty in Fundamental Analysis
Kenneth Medlock, III, Rice University

11:30–12:00 pm

The Future of Long-Term LNG Contracts
Peter R. Hartley, Rice University

12:00–1:00 pm

Lunch

Session II: Market Dynamics and Investing in Large Capital Projects
Session Chair: John A. Dobelman

1:00–2:00 pm

Moody’s Analytics Off and Running
Chris Lafakis, Rice University

2:00–2:30 pm

Unconventional Reservoirs: How Transformative Knowledge and Enabling Technologies are Changing the Market Dynamics in North America
Jeff Tooth, Chief Advisor, Korea National Oil Corporation, Global Technology & Research Centre (GTRC)

2:30–2:45 pm

Break

Session III: Federal, State and Local Economic Outlook
Session Chair: Gary C. Marfin, Associate Dean of Engineering, Rice University

2:45–3:30 pm

2015 Texas Economic Outlook: Tapping on the Brakes
Keith Phillips, Senior Economist and Research Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio Branch

3:30–4:15 pm

Here we go again!: Houston and the Drilling Downturn of 2014 – 2017
Robert W. Gilmer, Director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

4:15–5:15 pm

Panel Discussion

Joe Barnes, Bonner Means Baker Fellow, Baker Institute

William Sirakos, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Economist and Capital Markets Division Head Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc., San Antonio

James R. Thompson, Noah Harding Professor of Statistics

Edward E. Williams, Professor Emeritus at Rice University

5:15–7:15 pm

Reception, Banquet & Awards

Keynote Lecture

The Golden Constant Revisited: The ‘Tightness’ of the Gold-Oil Price Ratio from the 1970s to 2015
Brian Domitrovic, Professor & Chair, Department of History, Sam Houston State University

8:30–9:00 am

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Breakfast

Short Course, Room 3076

Investing for Profit: A Data-Based Approach
Edward E. Williams and John A. Dobelman

9:00–12:00 pm

Short Course, McMurtry Auditorium

Introduction to Quantitative Financial Analytics
Yesheya Adler and Matthew Dehley, Department of Statistics

12:00 pm

Conference Concludes