# Seminar Schedule Spring 2017 ## expand\_more ### 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, SortFebruary 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