Friday, April 17 2026, 4 - 5pm Founders Memorial Garden Speaker's Website Agenda: 3:30 - 4:00pm - Arrival 4:00 - 4:05pm - Opening Remarks, Brooks Hall 145 4:05 - 5:00pm - Lecture, Dr. Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, Brooks Hall 145 5:00 - 5:30pm - Break 5:30 - 7:00pm - Dinner, Founders Memorial Garden 7:05 - 7:45pm - After Dinner Talk, Dr. Lars Hansen. Brooks Hall 145 Biography: Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist. He is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business, at the University of Chicago and a 2013 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Hansen is best known for his work on the generalized method of moments. He is also a distinguished macroeconomist, focusing on the linkages between the financial sector and the macroeconomy. His current collaborative research develops and applies methods for pricing the exposure to macroeconomic shocks over alternative investment horizons and investigates the implications of the pricing of long-term uncertainty. Among other honors, he received the 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Economy, Finance and Management. Dinner Venue: To register for this event, please click here. Co-Sponsors This event is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Georgia Chapter of the American Statistical Association
