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Seminars

We hold an Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester.

Spring 2010 meetings are held at 2:30 PM until 4 PM on Thursdays in Maxwell Dworkin 221.

Date Speaker
Topic
January 8 Peter Key
Pricing of Media Service Provision
January 28


Pingzhong Tang (1st)

Chien-Ju Ho (2nd)

 

Team Competition (1st)

On Formal Models for Social Verification (2nd)

February 4 John Lai Truth, Justice and Cake Cutting
February 11 Katherine A. Baldiga and Jerry R. Green Choice-based Measures of Conflict in Preferences
February 18 Alice Gao

 

An Axiomatic Characterization of Continuous-Outcome Market Makers

 
February 26
2-3:30pm
Malvika Rao

On Expressing Externalities in Position Auctions

*please note special time and place*

March 4 John Ullman and Mike Ruberry Mechanisms for Assigning Courses

March 5
1:30-2:30pm
MD 319

Rajiv Maheswaran

How to Split a Pie: Coalitions and Efficiency when Allocating Divisible Resources

*please note special time and place*

March 25 John Horton The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing
March 29 Joint TOC/EconCS seminar Giorgis Zerva Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank
April 1 Sven Seuken   Accounting Mechanisms for Distributed Work Systems
April 8 Ilan Lobel (Microsoft Research) Learning in Social Networks with Signals of Bounded Informativeness
April 9
*3-4pm*
*MD 323*
Sanmay Das Collective Intelligence: Information Aggregation in Wikis, Blogs, and Markets

*please note special time and place*


April 15

Chang Xu and Eric Huang

Making Doodle obsolete: applying auction mechanisms to meeting scheduling

 

April 29 Jeff Nanney "Entertainment Shopping": An analysis of profit and strategy in a new auction format
July 28
*10:30-12pm*
*Pierce 320*

Hamid Nazer Zadeh Online Optimization with Uncertain Information

*please note special time and place*

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