Seminar Schedule Spring 2012

Listing of research seminars

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

Spring 2012 meetings are held at 2:30 until 4pm on Mondays in LISE 311.

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic
January 30 3pm-4:30 MD 319	William Zame	Designing Exchange for Online Communities please note special time and place
February 13 MD G135	Haoqi Zhang	Computational Environment Design please note special place
February 26	Luyi Gui	Decentralized network optimization via mechanism design
March 5	Andrew Mao	Social Choice for Human Computation
March 19	Brendan Lucier	The Limits of Black-Box Reductions in Mechanism Design
March 26	Bo Waggoner (1st) Mike Ruberry (2nd)	Evaluating Resistance to False-Name Manipulations in Elections (1st) Designing Informative Securities (2nd)
April 2	Tanmoy Chakraborty	Mechanism Design in a Risk Averse World
April 9	Azarakhsh Malekian	Bayesian Optimal Auctions via Multi- to Single-agent Reduction
April 16	Georgios Zervas (1st) Alice Gao (2nd)	The Groupon Effect on Yelp Ratings: A Root Cause Analysis (1st) Quality Expectation-Variance Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing Contests
April 18 2:30-3:30 MD G135	Yu-An Sun	How to Assure the Quality of Human Computation Tasks When Majority Voting Fails? please note special time and place
April 23	Augustin Chaintreau	Transactional Privacy: Unknotting the Privacy Tussle with Economics
April 30	Jake Abernethy	Minimax Option Pricing Meets Black-Scholes in the Limit
May 7	David Kempe	Information Asymmetries in first-price common-value auctions, or, How to Sell Third-Party Cookies