#  Seminar Schedule Spring 2015 

 



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 **January 22 - April 24, 2015** 

 01:45PM - 01:45PM EST 

 



 

###  Spring 2015

 The EconCS Group holds an Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester.

 Spring 2015 meetings are held at 1:45 to 3:30pm Fridays in Maxwell Dworkin 123.  
Seminar Coordinator for '14-'15: Thibaut Horel, <thibaut.horel@gmail.com>  
Link to Google Calendar with EconCS Seminar Schedule and other talks of interest in the Boston Area is [Here.](https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=NGM2a3JuazEyZWl0YnEwYWdvcGZkYzVhcDhAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)

Sort      January 22 

  [Hadi Hosseini](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~h5hossei/) 

  Sequential Matching with Dynamic Preferences  
 

    January 30  
Littauer Center

 

  [Shaddin Dughmi](http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~shaddin/) 

  On the Hardness of Signaling  
  
\*please note different room location\*

 

    February 6 

  [Bo Waggoner](http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~bwaggoner/) 

  Fair Information Sharing for Treasure Hunting  
 

    February 13 

  Darrell Hoy 

    
When the Output Affects the Input: Robust Analysis &amp; Design of Non-Truthful Mechanisms  
 

    February 20 

  Chien-Ju Ho (1st)

 Jean Pouget-Avadie (2nd)

 

  Incentivizing High Quality Crowdwork (1st)  
  
How can we estimate the parameters of a graph by observing it's cascades? (2nd)

 

    March 6  
Littauer Center 

  [Hamid Nazerzadeh](http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~nazerzad/)

 

  Practical Revenue-Maximizing Mechanism Design for Selling Online Ads  
\*please note different room location\*

 

    March 13 

  [Prakash Ishwar](http://blogs.bu.edu/pi/) 

  A Topic Modeling Approach to Ranking  
 

    April 3 

  [Andrey Fradkin (NBER)](http://andreyfradkin.com/) 

  Bias and Reciprocity in Online Reviews: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb  
 

    April 10 

  [Shuchi Chawla](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/) 

  Revenue maximization in interdependent value settings  
  
\*please note different room location\*

 

    April 24 

  [Hongyao Ma](http://scholar.harvard.edu/hma/home) (1st)

 [Ming Yin ](http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~myin/)(2nd)

 

  Are you Going to Use That? Contingent-Payment Mechanisms to Improve Coordination (1st)  
  
Bonus or Not? Learn to Reward in Crowdsourcing 

 





 

 



 

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