Seminar Schedule Fall 2016

 

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

Fall 2016 meetings are held at 1:45 to 3:30pm Fridays in Maxwell Dworkin 123.
Seminar Coordinator for Spring'16 is Eric Balkanski, ericblakanski@g.harvard.edu

September 9

Steven Wu

Bayesian Exploration: Incentivizing Exploration in Bayesian Games

September 16

Adam Altmejd

Predicting Replication with Machine Learning

October 7

Nir Rosenfeld

Discriminative Learning of Infection Models

October 21

Rafael Frongillo (1st)

Omer Lev (2nd)

Geometry in elicitation:  a tragic comedy in two acts (1st)

Peer Selection:  Crowdsourcing the choice of the best group amongst us (2nd)

October 28

Brendan Lucier

Prices, Auctions, and Combinatorial Prophet Inequalities

November 4 Vahab Mirrokni

Robust Allocation and Online Bundling in Online Advertising

November 11

Bo Cowgill

Productivity and Automation of
Subjective Judgements:  Evidence from Resume Screening

November 18

Matt Tady

Deep Counterfactual Prediction using Instrumental Variables

December 9 Fei Fang  Game-Theoretic Approaches for Real-World Security and Sustainability Challenges