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About
Real Estate is a crucial part of the U.S. and global economy. The Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems (CoFES) hosted the 11th Eubank Conference on Real World Markets: Real Estate Investment in a Changing Market on Monday, April 22, 2024.
The one-day conference brought thought leaders and industry experts from academia and industry to discuss emerging trends in real estate investment and housing, including the evolving science of assessing climate risk related to housing and real estate investments.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have long held a prominent place in this landscape. The conference morning session featured discussions on private and publicly traded REITs as investment vehicles and explored the field's growing quantitative nature.
The afternoon session began with research on household finance and studies on home mortgage affordability constraints. Conference discussions then explored dynamic risk environments in a changing climate. A panel of industry experts and academic researchers examined the science behind modern-day risk assessment toward infrastructure – including quantification of resilience and sustainability – and how climate risk analytics are applied to lending, insurance, and government policy.
Conference Agenda
9:30 am
Poster Session Set Up, Light Breakfast + Networking
10:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Katherine Ensor, Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and Director of CoFES
10:15 am
Session I: Real Estate Investment Trusts
CHAIR: Justin Davis, Chief Operating Officer, Landspire Group
Matthew Werner, Managing Director, REIT Strategies, Chilton Capital Management
The Public REIT Way to Invest in Real Estate
Omar Thowfeek, Senior Managing Director, Hines
Real Estate Investing in 2024 and Beyond
Paul Wasserman, Managing Director, KKR
Lessons Learned from Leading REIT Investments
11:30 am
Panel Discussion
CHAIR: Michael Jackson, Lecturer and Director, Professional Master of Statistics (MSTAT) Program
- Josh Childress, Chief Executive Officer, Landspire Group
- Justin Davis, Chief Operating Officer, Landspire Group
- Matthew Werner, Managing Director, REIT Strategies, Chilton Capital Management
- Omar Thowfeek, Senior Managing Director, Hines
- Paul Wasserman, Managing Director, KKR
12:00 pm
Lunch, Poster Session + Networking, Martell Hall
Poster Session Organizers: Meredith Kruse, Arnold Muchatibaya, Arthur Steve Tchoneteck
Kooshan Amini, Yuhao Liu, Jamie Padgett, Guha Balakrishnan, and Ashok Veeraraghavan, Civil & Environmental Engineering. Enhancing Coastal Resilience to Hurricane-Induced Debris: Application of Deep Learning Algorithms.
Sumith Anugu and Guodong Pang, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research. Ergodic Risk Sensitive Control (ERSC) of Markovian Multiclass Many-Server Queues.
Andres Calvo and Jamie Padgett, Civil & Environmental Engineering. Fragility assessment of industrial structures under tropical cyclone loads.
Kendall Capshaw and Jamie Padgett, Civil & Environmental Engineering. Modeling Coastal Petrochemical Infrastructure Risk, Resilience, and Cascading Community Consequences.
Will Miraglia and William Grayer. Rice Sports Data Modeling Club.
Jian Ruan and Elizabeth McGuffey, Statistics. Understanding the City's Growth - Analyzing New Development Trends in Houston's Real Estate.
Anibal Tafur and Jamie Padgett, Civil & Environmental Engineering. Enhancing the Resilience of Coastal Intermodal Freight Networks.
1:15 pm
Session II: Dynamic Risk Environments in a Changing Climate
CHAIR: Jamie Padgett, Stanley C. Moore Professor in Engineering; Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Stephanie Johnson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Rice University
Implications of Home Mortgage Affordability Constraints
Panel Discussion
- Paolo Bocchini, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University
- Stephan Sain, Senior Director, Geospatial and Data Sciences, Jupiter Intelligence
- Frederi Viens, Professor, Statistics, Rice University
2:50 pm
Celebration of John A. Dobelman and Nancy M. Eubank
3:00 pm
CoFES Prize Announced and Closing Remarks