First full-group meeting · 1 October 2026
Akshay ShankerEcon-ARK · co-chair Matt McKayQuantEcon · co-chair
Formed at CEF 2026 in Venice
Meeting approach 5 min
Project AAkshay Shanker 5–10 min
Project BMatt McKay 5–10 min
Discussion: families of modelsAkshay Shanker
Questions and input welcome 20–30 min
Q&A Remaining time
Async by default
We span many time zones, so most work happens between meetings, in the group repository on GitHub.
Town halls
The full group meets once a quarter, on Zoom.
Side meetings
Members can meet regionally or by topic between town halls.
Blog posts
We’re considering posts on topics of interest to the group, such as Lean.
Ideas welcome
Suggest a topic, or offer to write one, through the blog-idea form.
Akshay Shanker
Semantic ontologies for toolkits, methods and model classes, aiming at a journal special issue.
Akshay shares his screen
Matt McKay
Baseline economic models, solved in several toolkits: shared reference models for comparing implementations, numerical methods and results.
Slides: quantecon.github.io/community-library/sce-wg1-2026-10-01.html
Led by Akshay Shanker
Questions and input welcome
Between meetings
The group repository on GitHub, econ-ark/sce-wg-1
Slides
On the group site, econ-ark.github.io/sce-wg-1
Forms
Register a toolkit, discuss model families or suggest a blog post: New issue in econ-ark/sce-wg-1
Thank you.