Seminar Schedule Spring 2017

Date and Time

February 2 - May 5, 2017
02:00PM - 02:00PM EST

Location

Maxwell Dworkin 221

Spring 2017

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

Spring 2017 meetings are held at 2:00 to 3:30pm Fridays in Maxwell Dworkin 221.
Seminar Coordinator for Spring '17 is Eric Balkanski, ericblakanski@g.harvard.edu

February 2

Jason Radford

Building an Online Laboratory for Social and Behavioral Research:  Lessons from Volunteer Science

February 10

Paramveer Dhillon

1. Linear Methods for Big Data and 2. Influence Maximization Revisited

February 24

Karim Lakhani
& TopCoder Executives

  Engaging Crowds in CS Research

March 3
Nisarg Shah
 How to Ask Residents to Vote Over Public Projects
March 10
Jens Witkowski
Quality of Information in Forecasting and Peer Prediction
March 31
Ruihao Zhu
Threshold Bandit, With and Without Censored Feedback
April 7
Drazen Prelec
Aggregating Information:  The meta-prediction approach
April 14
Yevgeniy Vorobeychick
Pragmatic Game Theoretic Approaches to Privacy in the Era of Big Data
April 28
Robin Lee
Will the Market Fix the Market?  A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation
May 5
Rediet Abebe

Fair Division via Social Comparison