PURPOSE
The main purpose of the visitor program is to give the PhD students an opportunity to attend mini-courses and seminars taught by distinguished economists in different fields, and meet with them personally to discuss their own research. They will visit the department for between one and two weeks, during which they will teach a mini-course consisting of two to four lectures in a topic of their expertise, give one regular seminar, and hold office hours to meet with PhD students individually.
ALLOCATION OF VISITORS
The number of visitors is allocated across fields in rough proportion to the dissertations written or being worked upon in those fields by PhD students. Each field has a nominated faculty representative, who will consult faculty and PhD students in their field and select who to invite. The representative will also communicate with those invited and work out dates of their visit, in consultation also with me and/or Eleanor (we will be trying to coordinate the visits of different visitors to avoid conflicts). The visitors will generally occupy Rm 513. PhD students are encouraged to make appointments (via Ashley or Eleanor in the IED office) to see them, apart from attending their lectures and seminars.
SPRING 2009
The allocation of visitors for Spring 2009 is: two in macro/international (reps: Francois Gourio, Robert King); one in theory (Bart Lipman), one in IO (Marc Rysman), one in development (Dilip Mookherjee), one in labor/public (Kevin Lang) and one in econometrics (Pierre).
The following visitors are scheduled for Spring 2009:
Stephen Morris (Microeconomic Theory): January 26--January 30
Hanno Lustig (Macroeconomics): March 17--March 20
Fernando Alvarez (Macroeconomics): March 25--March 27
Michael Jansson (Econometrics): April 13--April 17
Hanming Fang (Industrial): April 21--April 24
 Lecture Schedule for PROFESSOR MICHAEL JANSSON (April 13 - April 17, 2009)
It is with great pleasure to inform you of our distinguished visitor Professor Michael Jansson. He will be here with us from Monday, April 13th through Friday, April 17th. Professor Jansson received his PhD from the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Professor Jansson has published on a range of topics in econometric theory. During his visit to BU Professor Jansson will discuss his research on “Small Bandwidth Asymptotics for Density-Weighted Average Derivatives.”
Professor Lustig will give two Lectures in Room 315 at 270 Bay State Road:
Tuesday, April 14th, 2:00-3:30pm titled "Optimality Theory for Unit Root Tests I"
Thursday, April 16th, 2:00-3:30pm titled "Optimality Theory for Unit Root Tests II"
Professor Lustig will give a Seminar in CAS Room 331:
Friday, April 17th, 11:00-12:30pm titled "Small Bandwidth Asymptotics for Density-Weighted Average Derivatives" paper
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To schedule office hours please email Ashley Seamans at aseamans@bu.edu and give her your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice for desired times. A sign up sheet posted on IED’s website http://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/distinguishedvisitors.html will show who is scheduled and for when. Every attempt will be made to give you your desired time however it will be based on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The following are the dates and times to request a meeting:
Tuesday, April 14th from 3:30pm to 5pm
Wednesday, April 15th from 11am to Noon
Thursday, 11am to Noon
If you are unable to attend any of the scheduled office hours please email Ashley at aseamans@bu.edu with a time that fits your needs.
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