VMACS Junior Conference

August 31 - September 2, 2020

Hi!

Welcome to the first VMACS Junior Conference! Please click here to download the program for the conference (Short link: https://bit.ly/3iVLhTs)

The conference will be held over three days: Monday August 31 – Wednesday September 2, 2020

Each day we have two sessions: 0900-11:00 EST, and 11:30-13:30 EST. Each session will be followed by a 30 minute breakout session in small groups.

Each session will consist of two parallel sessions, Session A and Session B. To be able to attend some Session A’s and some Session B’s, you’ll need to register for both the Session A and Session B Zoom Webinars

· Session A registration link: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_guQExV0FSuGI-LdYa8b5og

· Session B registration link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sKV2lSykSQGPY2_SWXXjAg

At the end of the first day we will also have the Emmanuel Farhi Keynote Lecture from 1400-1500 EST, which will be given by David Baqaee (UCLA). You will need to register for this as a separate webinar:

· Keynote registration link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MGmEhOIjSTmGCaZ5QBJU6A

The breakout rooms after each of the sessions will be run on the Zoom accounts of the session chair. Details for these will be given during each session.

Note - Although we have set these up as webinars, we want lively participation and so, if everyone behaves, we will be promoting all attendees to panelists in all sessions. This will allow people to ask questions during the middle 20 minutes of each 30 minute talk.

Thanks for attending, and we hope you learn a lot!

Organizing committee

Kyle Dempsey, Ohio State University

Elisa Giannone, Penn State University

Heejeong Kim, Concordia University

Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University

Simon Mongey, University of Chicago

Abdoulaye Ndiaye, New York University (Stern)

Omar Rachedi, Banco de España

Christian Wolf, University of Chicago (BFI)