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Schedule

Sunday, June 25
  4:00-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-9:00 p.m.

Monday, June 26
  7:30-8:30 a.m.
  8:30-10:00 a.m.
  10:00-10:30 a.m.
  10:30-12:00 p.m.
  12:00-1:00 p.m.
  1:00-2:30 p.m.
  2:30-3:00 p.m.
  3:00-4:30 p.m.
 
  4:30-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-9:00 p.m.

Tuesday, June 27
  7:30-8:30 a.m.
  8:30-10:00 a.m.
  10:00-10:30 a.m.
  10:30-12:00 p.m.
  12:00-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-9:00 p.m.


Wednesday, June 28
  7:30-8:30 a.m.
  8:30-10:00 a.m.
  10:00-10:30 a.m.
  10:30-12:00 p.m.
  12:00-1:00 p.m.
  1:00-2:30 p.m.
  2:30-3:00 p.m.
  3:00-4:30 p.m.
  4:30-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-7:00 p.m.
  7:00-9:00 p.m.

Thursday, June 29
  7:30 a.m.    

Arrival and registration
Dinner and Program Overview


Breakfast
Session One:  Interactive Session I
Break
Session Two:  When numbers are reliable and unreliable
Lunch 
Session Three:  How to question a source without being a statistician
Break
Session Four:  The rationality and irrationality of risk--how do people perceive a small chance of a large catastrophe
Free Time 
Cocktails, Dinner


Breakfast
Session Five:  Inaction in the face of uncertainty--policy design in a risky world
Break
Session Six:  How do businesses and business leaders play the numbers game
Box lunches - Free time 
Cocktails, Dinner: 



Breakfast
Session Seven:  How numbers on economic development are used and abused
Break
Session Eight:  How numbers on taxation are used and abused
Lunch 
Session Nine:  How numbers on globalization are used and abused
Break
Session Ten:  Interactive Session II and summary
Free Time 
Cocktails
Dinner discussion and interactive session


Breakfast and Departure








 

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