Seminar Schedule Fall 2015

Fall 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 '15-'16 is Mr. Jean Pouget-Abadie, jean.pougetabadie@gmail.com

September 4
Moshe Tennenholtz
Sequential Commitment Games
 
 
 
September 18
Charalampos (Babis)
Tsourakakis
Large Scale Graph Mining

 
 
 
October 2
Arpit Agarwal
Connections between Calibrated Surrogates in Supervised Learning and Property Elicitation in Probability Forecasting
 
 
October 9
Edmond Awad
Collective Judgement in Contested Domains: The Case of Conflicting Arguments
 
 
October 15
Andrew Mao
Long-Run Behavior in Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
 
 
October 19
Luis Ortiz
On Networks and Behavior:  Strategic Inference and Machine Learning
 
 
October 23
Iyad Rahwan
 

Making Social Networks Work

 

 
 
October 30
 Valentin Robu
Efficient Electricity Group Buying using Prediction-of-Use Tariffs
 
 
November 6
 Ming Yin
The Communication Network Within the Crowd
 
 
November 13
 Patrick Loiseau
Classification from strategic data: a game-theoretic perspective 
 
 
November 20
Greg Stoddard (Speaker #1)

Eric Balkanski (Speaker #2)
 
I spent a month building an experiment and all I got were these dumb results (Talk #1)

The Limitations of Optimization from Samples (Talk #2)
 
 
December 4
Arpit Agarwal
Connections between Calibrated Surrogates in Supervised Learning and Property Elicitation in Probability Forecasting