Schedule Thursday 09:30 Welcome coffee. 10:00 S. Thomassé. Introduction. 10:30 J. Fox. A disproof of Scott’s conjecture. 11:30 Lunch break. 14:00 P. Ossona de Mendez. Low tree-depth decompositions and homomorphism bounds. 15:00 Open problems session. Friday 9:00 P. Seymour. Structure theory for tournaments. 10:00 J. Fox. Graph regularity lemmas. 11:00 A. Scott. T.B.A. 12:00 Lunch break. 14:00 V...

In this paper we provide analytical and Monte Carlo evidence that Chow and Predictive tests can be consistent against alternatives that allow structural change to occur at either end of the sample. Attention is restricted to linear regression models that may have a break in the intercept. The results are based on a novel reparameterization of the actual and potential break point locations. Stan...

This paper uses the econometrics of endogenous structural breaks to examine changes in energy intensity for OECD countries over 1960-2009. Nearly all OECD countries currently have significant negatively trending energy-GDP ratios; but for several countries those negative trends are recent, and two countries have recent significant positive trends. For several countries, energy intensity had a s...

This paper considers nonstandard hypothesis testing problems that involve a nuisance parameter. We establish an upper bound on the weighted average power of all valid tests, and develop a numerical algorithm that determines a feasible test with power close to the bound. The approach is illustrated in six applications: inference about a linear regression coefficient when the sign of a control co...

Asynchronous Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms (HAPEAs) have shown to be robust as they require no derivatives or gradients of the objective function, have the capability of finding globally optimum solutions amongst many local optima, can be executed asynchronously in parallel and adapted easily to arbitrary solver codes without major modifications. The application of the methodology is illustr...