Summer's conference carousel

My conference-carousel ended yesterday in Turku (Finland), where the 15th European Meeting on Game Theory (SING) was held. Many of the presented papers were quite technical and therefore hard for me to follow, but the trip was nevertheless worth the effort. The MILO-paper I presented there was “On Optimal Extraction Under Asymmetric Information over Reclamation Costs”, and I was lucky to receive nice, friendly feedback on the model. Before SING, I presented the paper “On Optimal Nuclear Waste Disposal” in EAERE (the 24th annual conference of the European Association of Environmenta and Resource Economists), which was held in Manchester. The research is joint work with Jussi Lintunen from Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), and we look at the nuclear waste disposal problem from an economic point of view.

The first spins of the carousel were in Montreal, where I presented the same paper as in SING. The World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling (WCNRM) and the 42nd International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Annual Conference were both held in HEC Montreal. The conferences were quite different probably due to their size difference. This quote from the Resource Modeling Association’s website captures the essence of the WCNRM:

“Small, diverse, multi-discipline conferences held in a convivial atmosphere where delegates treat one another as equals”.

I recommend their conference for those interested in natural resources and mathematical modeling, and for those who agree that policy advices for the improved management of our resources are best drawn together with other disciplines.

Oh, and to avoid any misunderstandings, that’s Montreal, not Turku, in the cover image… (but I like them both!)

Written on July 5th, 2019 by Pauli Lappi