2026 Bradley Lecture: Lars Peter Hansen

Friday, April 3, 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Featured Speaker:

Lars Peter Hansen – University of Chicago

Agenda:

3:30 - 4:00pm - Arrival

4:00 - 4:05pm - Opening Remarks, Brooks Hall 145

4:05 - 5:00pm - Lecture, Dr. Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, Brooks Hall 145

5:00 - 5:30pm - Break

5:30 - 7:00pm - Dinner, Founders Memorial Garden

7:05 - 7:45pm - After Dinner Talk, Dr. Lars Hansen. Brooks Hall 145

Please find below titles for Professor Hansen's Bradley Lecture:

Regular 50-minute talk:

Uncertainty Quantification for Robust Decision Making Under Ambiguity

Abstract: Decision theory traces its origins to work by Wald and Savage, with more recent advances formalizing the notion of ambiguity aversion. In parallel, control theorists developed decision rules that are robust to potential model misspecification. I will draw on recent research connecting these literatures and extending uncertainty quantification methods to address policy challenges — including climate change — that incorporate concerns about potentially “deep uncertainties.”

Short after-dinner talk:

Why Uncertainty Can be a Call to Action

Biography:

Lars Hansen is a leading expert in economic dynamics, drawing approaches from macroeconomics, finance, and statistics. Hansen has made fundamental advances in the understanding of how economic agents cope with changing and risky environments. He is the recipient of the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He also won the 2010 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management. In 2006, Hansen was awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics from Northwestern University.