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Seminars

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

Fall 2007 meetings are held from 4PM until 5:15PM on Mondays in Maxwell Dworkin 319

Date	Speaker	Topic
September 6	Rakesh Vohra	The Complexity of Forecast Testing
September 24	Organizational meeting.
October 1	Florin Constantin	A Flexible Advance-Booking Mechanism
October 15	Jon Feldman	Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising Auctions
October 17 (Wed., MD221)	Aviv Zohar	Incentives Compatibility in BGP and other Asynchronous Games
October 22	Sven Seuken	Selfishness and Altruism in P2P Networks: A Large-Scale Economics Field Experiment
October 29	Ben Lubin	Iterative Combinatorial Exchanges: An Experimental Analysis
November 5 (4:30-5:30)	No EconCS
November 19 (MD G115)	David Parkes	Explorations in Computational Mechanism Design
November 20 (2:45-4pm, MD221)	Ian Kash	Optimizing Scrip Systems: Efficiency, Crashes, Hoarders, and Altruists
November 26	David Chen / Giro Cavallo	Mobile web advertising: maximum entropy banner allocation Planning costly value determination preceding allocation of a resource
December 3	Jacomo Corbo	The Importance of Network Topology in Local Contribution Games
December 10	Haoqi Zhang / Andres Hervas-Drane	Value-Based Policy Teaching Word of Mouth and Recommender Systems: A Theory of the Long Tail
December 17	Shaili Jain	The ESP Game: A game-theoretic approach

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