john hotelwanger, distinguished university professor university of maryland, and art d.probiker, director of the defense advanced research agency known to all of us as darpa. the moderator will be laura tyson, professor of business economics at the berkeley high school of business and the member of the hamilton project. let me close by extending particular thanks to melissa carney, who i already mentioned, our director, kristin mcintosh, our managing director, and brad hershbine, the visiting fellow at the hamilton project. providing the construct of this session and putting together truly a remarkable program. let me thank the members of the staff of the hamilton project whose thoughtful and hard work is central to everything we do at our project. with that, let me turn the podium over to roger altman. roger. >> good morning, everyone. i'll be real brief. i think that the upcoming framing remarks and the two panels we're about to have are going to fit anyone's destrix description of provocative. i, too, want to thank melissa and kristen and the entire hamilton staff for organizing an event as rich as this and as substantive as this. as bob said, we're going to starlet start with framing r