Workshops and Seminars

QuantEcon runs remote and in-person workshops and short courses on quantitative economics and high-performance computing using Python and Julia. Past locations include the IMF, Bank of Portugal, Hitotsubashi University, Columbia University, Reserve Bank of Australia, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, UCLA, and the Central Bank of Chile.

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Recent Workshops

February 2026, International University of Japan

This workshop explores simulation for economic analysis, demonstrating how to accelerate simulations using modern Python tools. It focuses on Thomas Schelling's segregation model as a running example, with implementations using NumPy, Numba, and JAX.

October 2025, Bank of Portugal

Scientific computing has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven in large part by demand from and investment in artificial intelligence hardware and software. This workshop explores new computing environments and their features, including parallelization, automatic differentiation, and just-in-time compilers, and investigates how such tools might be applied to macroeconomic applications.

September 2025, Hitotsubashi University

Several important new scientific computing environments have appeared in recent years, generated by demand from and investment in artificial intelligence. This workshop provides an overview of these environments and their features, including automatic differentiation, parallel computing, and just-in-time compilers, and discusses how these tools might be applied to economic applications.

December 2025, International Monetary Fund

Open source scientific computing environments built around the Python programming language have expanded rapidly in recent years. They now form the dominant paradigm in artificial intelligence and many fields within the natural sciences. This course will cover the foundations of Python programming and Python scientific libraries, and also investigate how Python is being used as the major language of AI.

June 2025, Kyoto University

The recent surge in artificial intelligence research and investment has driven emergence of groundbreaking scientific computing environments, each equipped with advanced features like automatic differentiation, parallel computing capabilities, and just-in-time compilation. This workshop explores their potential applications within economic research.

June 2025, International University of Japan

Several important new scientific computing environments have appeared in recent years, generated by demand from and investment in artificial intelligence. This workshop provides a brief overview of these environments and their features, including automatic differentiation, parallel computing, and just-in-time compilers.

November 2024, Reserve Bank of Australia

Several important new scientific computing environments have appeared in recent years, generated by demand from and investment in artificial intelligence. This workshop discusses how these tools can be applied to a range of economic applications.

August 2024, University of Melbourne

May 2024, Central Bank of Chile

March 2024, International Monetary Fund


Past Workshops

October 2023, International Monetary Fund

October 2023, Columbia University

April 2023, Kobe University

April 2023, Nagoya University

April 2023, Keio University

September 2022, Central Bank of Chile

September 2022, CREST, Paris

  • Presenters: Edouard Challe, Beatrice Cherrier, Alfred Galichon, John Stachurski, Pablo Winant
  • Website

July 2022, Research School of Economics, ANU

  • Presenters: John Stachurski
  • Website

April 2019, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

May 2018, University of Copenhagen

March 2018, ANU Honours Workshop

  • Presenters: Thomas Sargent, John Stachurski, Fedor Iskhakov, Natasha Watkins, Sophie Stearn
  • GitHub repository

September 2017, US PhD Workshops series

  • Presenters: John Stachurski, Matthew McKay, Chase Coleman, Victoria Gregory, Natasha Watkins
  • GitHub repository

August 2017, ANU / Australasian Macroeconomics Society (AMS)

June - August 2017, University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute

  • Presenters: John Stachurski

March 2017, Reserve Bank of Australia & Reserve Bank of New Zealand

  • Presenters: John Stachurski, Pablo Winant, Pearl Li, Erica Moszkowski
  • GitHub repository

October 2016, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City

June 2016, North American Summer Meeting of Econometric Society

May 2016, Chicago Federal Reserve

  • Presenters: John Stachurski, Viral Shah, Pablo Winant, Matthew McKay, Chase Coleman
  • GitHub repository