ENH: update feedback from jstac + news item (#142)

* update sponsors section

* post news item for rba workshop

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-        <p><strong>Sponsor</strong></p>
+        <p><strong>Current sponsors</strong></p>
 
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           <a href="https://chow.xmu.edu.cn/en/index.htm" title="Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University">

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+title: QuantEcon workshop at the Reserve Bank of Australia
+author: Matt McKay
+excerpt: QuantEcon delivered a workshop at the Reserve Bank of Australia
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+QuantEcon ran a [workshop](https://github.com/QuantEcon/rba_workshop_2024) at the Reserve Bank of Australia presenting recent advances in computational tools available in open source scientific computing environments. 
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+These new tools include:
+- automatic differentiation
+- parallel computing, and
+- just-in-time compilers and GPU computing