# Seminar Schedule Spring 2015 ## expand\_more ### 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, 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) SortJanuary 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 & 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