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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Methods for Simulation
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Methods for Macroeconomic Modeling
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Hitotsubashi Computational Economics Workshop
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Modern Computational Economics with Python
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Economics and AI
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Economics and the AI Revolution
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- The AI-driven Revolution in Scientific Computing
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Economics Workshop
May 2024, Central Bank of Chile
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Central Bank of Chile 2024 Scientific Computing Workshop
March 2024, International Monetary Fund
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Modern Computational Economics and Policy Applications
Past Workshops
October 2023, International Monetary Fund
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- An Introduction to High Performance Computing with Python
October 2023, Columbia University
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Methods for Quantitative Economics
April 2023, Kobe University
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Economics with Python
April 2023, Nagoya University
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Methods for Quantitative Economics
April 2023, Keio University
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- Computational Methods for Quantitative Economics
September 2022, Central Bank of Chile
- Presenters: John Stachurski, Pablo Winant
- Central Bank of Chile Scientific Computing Workshops
September 2022, CREST, Paris
- Presenters: Edouard Challe, Beatrice Cherrier, Alfred Galichon, John Stachurski, Pablo Winant
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July 2022, Research School of Economics, ANU
- Presenters: John Stachurski
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April 2019, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
- Presenters: John Stachurski, Natasha Watkins
- GitHub repository
May 2018, University of Copenhagen
- Presenters: John Stachurski, Natasha Watkins
- GitHub repository
March 2018, ANU Honours Workshop
- Presenters: Thomas Sargent, John Stachurski, Fedor Iskhakov, Natasha Watkins, Sophie Stearn
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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)
- Presenters: John Stachurski, Matthew McKay, Natasha Watkins
- GitHub repository
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
- Presenters: John Stachurski
- GitHub repository
June 2016, North American Summer Meeting of Econometric Society
- Presenters: John Stachurski, Matthew McKay, Chase Coleman
- GitHub repository
May 2016, Chicago Federal Reserve
- Presenters: John Stachurski, Viral Shah, Pablo Winant, Matthew McKay, Chase Coleman
- GitHub repository