Spring 2022 EconCS Seminars

Calvin Li, formerly at Uber and the main architect behind their current surge pricing strategies. It will occur at the usual place and the usual time: this Friday, 6/3, at 1 pm ET, in SEC 1.413 and streamed on zoom here Abstract: For the first 9 years of...

Munyque Mittelmann will be presenting at the EconCS seminar meeting this Friday, 5/13, at 1 pm ET. The seminar will be held Zoom only, accessible at the usual link here. Hope to see you there :). Title: Logic-based Automated Mechanism Design Abstract...

Ben Edelman (Harvard) will be presenting at the EconCS seminar meeting this Friday, 4/29, at 1 pm ET. The seminar will take place in the usual room, SEC 1.413 , and will also be streamed on zoom here. Title: The Multiplayer Colonel Blotto Game Abstract...

Elaine Shi will be presenting at the EconCS seminar meeting this Friday, 4/22, at 1 pm ET. The seminar will be held Zoom only, accessible at the usual link here. Hope to see you there :). Title: Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design Abstract...

Speaker: Manish Raghavan Location: The seminar will take place in the usual room, SEC 1.413 , and will also be streamed on zoom here. Hope to see you there :). Title: The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement...

Speaker: Gianluca Brero Title: Automated Market Design via Reinforcement Learning Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce the use of reinforcement learning to design algorithmic markets. First, I will show how (deep) reinforcement learning algorithms can...

Yuqing Kong will be presenting at the EconCS seminar meeting this Friday, 3/25, at 1 pm ET. The seminar will be held Zoom only, accessible at the usual link here. Hope to see you there :). Title: Eliciting Thinking Hierarchy without a Prior Abstract: A...

Ruta Mehta will be presenting at the EconCS seminar meeting this Friday, 3/11, at 1 pm ET. The seminar will be held Zoom only, accessible at the usual link here. Hope to see you there :). Title: Fair division of goods, bads, and mixed. Abstract: Fair...

Presenter: Manish Raghavan Abstract: Online platforms routinely optimize the content they recommend to their users based on behavioral data. At its core, the use of behavioral data is predicated on a revealed preference assumption: users choose what they...

Presenter: Stefanos Nikolaidis Topic: Towards Robust Human-Robot Interaction: A Quality Diversity Approach Spring 2022 The EconCS Group holds an Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester. Spring 2022 meetings are held at 1 - 2:30 PM on...