Another guy from Wisconsin is moving to Miami. Welcome, Giannis

Theory and praxis

Upon becoming tenured: “Tenure committees recognize true academic excellence.” One year later, looking at new tenure cases:

Are you good at staying still?

Barcelona gets a second visit from a Midwesterner in a week

Saul Kripke, “Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language” Reading age: 1 year and up

"Uncertain Network Dynamics" now applies my methods to US production network. Over time US economy became more fragile & subject to network volatility. Reflects growing concentration of GDP in services, real estate, & finance & their increased importance as inputs. drive.google.com/file/d/1TL9l...

When I visit family in Madison

Ringo knows

Presenter slide decks in a four-paper session with 22 minutes per talk: • 49 slides • 36 slides • 32 slides • 40 slides

The evolution of the University of Chicago: from the Common Core to the Common Claude

poinciana

Someone missed the turn

Dream job if you can get to the top of that range. Don't take less than $100 per year

We all love Mogwai youtube.com/watch?v=ZkD-...

No Floyd at the Times

The “old University of Chicago” has always been in decline chicagomaroon.github.io/data-visuali...

Explaining your work feels like this sometimes

Taking the Jag to the grocery store

To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life

Reading about the AI backlash brought to mind Pynchon's essay from 1984, "Is it O.K. to Be a Luddite?" It's still great. Some references feel dated, as is the nuclear war focus, but well worth reading and quite a capper paragaph: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Economics graduate programs in decline: new PhD student enrollments down 12.5%, masters enrollment down 17.6%, according to @aeajournals.bsky.social

Take my hand, we’ll make it, I swear

Proud of my daughter, who graduated yesterday. Double major in accounting & finance, magna cum laude.

When class participation is part of the course grade

Compute is a verb.

Facebook marketplace in Miami is a bit different

Lots of families on campus this time of year

James Blake Feat. Chance The Rapper "Life Round Here" youtube.com/watch?v=5S6U...

Never seen a 63-11 run in professional sports

the dean is in favor of "embedding AI fluency" it's not just a statement, it's a practice

Belligerent ghouls run the Manchester School, spineless swines, cemented minds (Comes to mind every time I see this journal) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

The evil corporation in every movie

When the defending Boston Marathon champion forgets her watch so you give her yours. Winning formula: go “easy” for 21 miles then make your move.

Heckman on slide 34 of 137

Wealth, income, whatever

A welcome email

Obligatory for the day youtu.be/Phh3oVCtzBg?...

Is the name Peter Magyar the equivalent of "Joe American"?

All AI founders

Fireside chat with Ben Golub and Matt Jackson to cap the first day of the Network Science and Economics conference at the University of Miami sites.google.com/view/nse2026...

"Equilibria, Folds, and Escapes" Revised paper with new title, new analytic results, and 70% longer (mostly appendix, text is ~10% longer). I characterize both the mean path of stochastic models and the most likely large deviations via deterministic differential equations. (1/3)

No more boring title slides

This has been a fun one to write. Draft coming soon.

I listen to Egg Hunt every Easter, if not more regularly youtube.com/watch?v=MjIm...

Florida en pascua

The program is now available for the Miami Macro 2026 conference on April 24. We receieved a LOT of submissions, so had to exclude many interesting papers but were able to put together an excellent program. Contact me directly if you'd like to attend. www.noahwilliams.org/conferences/...

My calendar event raised some questions. (Should have included the accent on the u)

Not a combination typically seen in faculty listings