Duke Forest Conference 2016
Economics in the Era of Natural Computationalism and Big Data
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
“Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata” (by John von Neumann)
Hilton Garden, Durham, North Carolina, Nov 11-13, 2016

Program Schedule

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Day 1 Friday, November 11, 2016
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Opening: Paul Wang, Guandong Xu, and Shu-Heng Chen
9:15 - 9:50 Keynote speech: Prof. Leigh Tesfatsion
9:50 - 10:25 Keynote: Prof. Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
10:25 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:15 Session 1
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:40 Session 2
14:40 - 16:30 Keynote Speech: Prof. Bruce Cladwell & Special Session: Hayekian Political Economy
16:30 - 16:50 Break
16:50 - 17:25 Keynote: Susan Freya Olive
17:25 - 18:35 Session 3
19:00 - 21:00 Banquet, Speaker: Sam Wang
Day 2 Saturday, November 12, 2016
8:30 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:10 Keynote: Prof. John Duffy
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 JEM special session
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 4
15:00 - 16:30 Session 5
16:30 - 16:50 Break
16:50 - 17:25 Keynote: Prof. Scott Huettel
17:25 - 18:00 Keynote: Prof. John Davis
Day 3 Sunday, November 13, 2016
9:00 - 9:35 Keynote: Prof. Huan Liu
9:35 - 10:10 Keynote: Prof. Robert Axtell
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 6
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 7
15:00 - 15:10 Break
15:10 - 16:40 Session 8