Seminar Schedule Spring 2017
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 | ||