Young Economists Selected to Meet Nobel Laureates in Germany

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 11, 2006
FY06-42

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.—Fifty outstanding graduate research students have been selected to attend the 2nd Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, Aug. 16-19, to participate in economics lectures and discussions with Nobel Laureates from around the world. These 50 students are being sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The meeting, which welcomes winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, adds to the tradition of the annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in natural sciences, which began in 1951. The main objective of the Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences is to provide an opportunity for personal interaction among Nobel Prize winners and young researchers. In Sept. 2004, the first bi-annual Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences was attended by nearly 200 students. More than 300 young researchers from 40 different countries are expected to participate in this year’s event.

Each morning, Laureates will lecture on a topic of their choice related to economics and then preside over informal roundtable sessions exclusively for students in the afternoons. During lunches and dinners, Laureates will join participants at local restaurants for additional discussions.

The 50 NSF sponsored students selected to attend the meeting are as follows:

Students	Institution
Adriana Leticia Arroyo Abad	University of California, Davis
Mustafa Akan	Northwestern University
Dante Amengual	Princeton University
David Atkin	Princeton University
Rudiger Bachmann	Yale University
Mostafa Beshkar	Vanderbilt University
Daniel Brown	University of Delaware
Nick Burger	University of California, Santa Barbara
Bo Chen	University of Wisconsin
Chung Choe	University of Arizona
Kerem Cosar	Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Cotten	University of Tennessee
Brendan Daley	Stanford University
Mark Dean	New York University
Paul Deng	Brandeis University
Wayne-Roy Gayle	University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Gottlieb	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tiffany Green	University of North Carolina
Vera Holovchenko	University of Texas, Dallas
Asen Ivanov	The Ohio State University
Juergen Jung	Indiana University
Joong Shik Kang	University of Wisconsin
Leonard Kiefer	The Ohio State University
Joshua Kinsler	Duke University
Matthias Kredler	New York University
Julie Lee	University of California, San Diego
Vadym Lepetyuk	University of Minnesota
Jura Liaukonyte	University of Virginia
Yang Lu	Boston University
Zacharias Maniadis	University of California, Los Angeles
Gustavo Manso	Stanford University
Joseph Marchand	Syracuse University
Katie McCann	University of Delaware
Nadine McCloud	State University of New York, Binghamton
Antonio Miralles	Boston University
Thayer Morrill	Stanford University
Helen Naughton	University of Oregon
Kathleen Odell	University of Illinois, Chicago
Luis Opazo	Georgetown University
Guillermo Ordonez	University of California, Los Angeles
Roberto Pinheiro	University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Poole	University of California, San Diego
Giacomo Rondina	University of Wisconsin
Shiv Saini	University of Wisconsin
Karl Smith	North Carolina State University
Georg Strasser	University of Pennsylvania
Satoru Takahashi	Harvard University
Betty Tao	University of North Carolina
Gernot Wagner	Harvard University
Siyang Xiong	Northwestern University

Additional information about this year's meeting may be accessed at http://www.orau.org/lindauecon/. The Web site and travel arrangements for all participants are being administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).