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Past Lectures & Seminars

Fall 2005
Date/Place        Series Speaker Title
Fall 2005 Kellogg Operations Seminar Series Organized by the Center for Operations & Supply Chain Management
Complete Schedule
Fall 2005 CMS-EMS Bag Lunches Organized by the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management Science. Complete Schedule
Fall 2005 CMS-EMS Theory Workshops Organized by the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management Science. Complete Schedule
Oct 3, 2005
Room 561
10:30am
Kellogg Senior Faculty Recruiting Seminar Series Vincent Crawford, U of CA, San Diego "Outguessing and Deception in Novel Strategic Situations"

Oct 24-29, 2005

Games and Theoretical Economics (GATE) Workshop Complete Schedule
Oct 31, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Torsten Persson, IIES, Stockholm U "Political competition and economic performance: Theory and evidence from the United States"
Nov 7, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Alessandro Lizzeri, NYU "Transparency and Economic Policy"
Nov 14 , 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Razvan Vlaicu, NU "Executive Performance under Direct and Hierarchical Accountability Structures: Theory and Evidence"
Nov 21, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series John Hatfield, Stanford U "Federation, Taxation and Economic Growth" (with Antonio Rangel)
Nov 28, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Nicola Gennaioli, Stockholm U "The Evolution of Precedent" (joint with Andrei Shleifer)
Dec 5, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Romain Wacziarg, Stanford U "The Diffusion of Development"

 

Winter and Spring 2005
Date/Place        Series Speaker Title
Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2005 OPNS Faculty Recruiting Seminar Series   Click here for the complete schedule and links to papers
Jan. - Feb. 2005 MECN Faculty Recruiting Seminar Series   Click here for the complete schedule and links to papers
Jan. 21, 2005
Allen Center
MEDS Lunch Series Brian Uzzi (NU) "Collaboration and Creativity: the Small World Problem"
Feb. 1, 2005
Allen Center
12pm
NICO visitor / Complexity Lunch Series Bill Rand (U. of Michigan) "Emergence and Feedbacks: Genetic Algorithms and Agent-Based Modeling"
Feb. 25, 2005
Allen Center
MEDS Lunch Series Joel Mokyr "The Great Synergy: the European Enlightenment as a Factor in Modern Economic Growth"
March 11, 2005
Allen Center
MEDS Lunch Series n/a n/a
March 28, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Mattias Polborn, U of Illinois "Is Mandatory Voting Better than Voluntary Voting?"
April 11, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Dan Carpenter, Harvard "Regulatory Error under Two-Sided Uncertainty: OR, The Political Economy of
Vioxx"
April 13, 2005
Room G40
4:30pm
Nancy L. Schwartz Lecture John O. Ledyard "Information Markets"

April 14, 2005
Room 586
12:15pm

Political Economy Seminar Series Clare Leaver, Oxford "Judicial Promotion Tournaments in the English High Court"
April 22, 2005
Allen Center
MEDS Lunch Series n/a n/a
May 2, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Maggie Penn, Carnegie Mellon U "Political Institutions and Social Identity"
May 9, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Washington U "Contracting without Commitment: Economic Transactions in the Political Economy of States and Mafia"
May 12, 2005
Room 561
3:00pm
OPNS Seminar Series Avi Seidmann, U of Rochester "Analyzing the Simultaneous Use of Auctions and Posted Prices for Online Selling"
May 23, 2005
Room 561
12:15pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Craig Volden, Ohio State U "Intergovernmental Grants: A Model of Political Competition in a Federal System"
May 27, 2005
Allen Center
USG Dining
MEDS Lunch Series Sven Feldmann, Kellogg TBA
 
2004
Date/Place Series Speaker Title

Jan-Feb 2004 Jacobs Ctr.

Faculty Recruiting Seminar Series MECN faculty candidates Click for a Complete Schedule
March 19 Jacobs 561 Kellogg Operations Seminar Series Harry Groenevelt
& Nils Rudi
"A base stock inventory model with possibility of rushing part of order"
April 1
Jacobs 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Seminar James Schummer

"On Ascending Vickrey Auctions for Heterogeneous Objects"

April 9,
Jacobs 561
11am
Kellogg Operations Seminar Series Ben Van Roy "Approximate Dynamic Programming: A History and Future"
April 14,
Jacobs 561
12pm
Kellogg/McCormick Joint Operations Seminar Series Michal Tzur "Inventory Models with Transshipments"
April 15
Jacobs 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Seminar Christoph Kuzmics "Noisy evolution in normal form games"
April 16,
Jacobs 561
11am
Kellogg Operations Seminar Series Stefan Spinler  
April 19, Jacobs 561 3:30pm Political Economy Seminar Series Rafael Hortala-Vallve "Qualitative Voting"

April 22,
Jacobs 561
12 pm

CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Seminar Nabil
Al-Najjar
"The Efficiency of Competitive Mechanisms under Incomplete Information"
April 23,
Jacobs 561
11am
Kellogg Operations Seminar Series Linda Green "Emergency Room Overcrowding:   An OR Analysis"
April 26, Jacobs 561 3:30pm Political Economy Seminar Series Michael Wallerstein "Redistribution and Affirmative Action"

May 10
Jacobs 561
3:30pm

Political Economy Seminar Series Michael Chwe "Statistical Game Theory"
May 12
Kellogg/McCormick Joint Operations Seminar Series Jan Van Mieghem "Risk and Capacity Management"
May 19
Jacobs G40
Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture Daniel Kahneman "Psychology and Behavioral Economics"

May 24
Jacobs 561
3:30pm

Political Economy Seminar Series Scott Ashworth "Revisiting Constituency Service and the Incumbency
Advantage"
May 27
Jacobs 561
12pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Ehud Kalai "On program equilibrium and metagames"
June 2,
Jacobs 561
12pm
Kellogg/McCormick Joint Operations Seminar Series Tito Homem-de-Mello "Models of the Spiral-Down Effect in Revenue Management"
June 10,
Jacobs 561
12pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Alp Atakan "Assortive Matching with Costly Search"
July 24, 25 Kellogg Operations Workshop    
Sept. 17, 2004
Room 561
10 am
Operations Seminar Series 2004/2005 Tunay Tunca  “Private Information and Performance in Oligopolistic Markets for Procurement”
Sept. 23, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Sayan Chakraborty
(MEDS-Job market cand.)
TBA
Sept. 27, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Jaehoon Kim "Legislative Organization and Rule Choice: Monopoly Agenda Setting Power and the Status Quo"
Sept. 29, 2004
Room 561
1:30pm
Operations Seminar Series 2004/2005 Wendell Gilland "Supply Chain Scheduling: Synchronizing Priorities Across the Supply
Chain"
Sept. 30, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Charles Zheng
(Economics)
"The over-concentrating nature of simultaneous ascending auctions"
Oct. 7, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Eilon Solan
(MEDS)
TBA

Oct. 8, 2004
Room 561
1:30 pm

Operations Seminar Series 2004/2005 Victor Araman "Dynamic Pricing for Non-Perishable Products with Demand Learning"
Oct. 11, 2004
Room 561
12pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Ernesto Dal Bo (Univ. of California - Berkley) "Workers, Warriors, and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium"
Oct. 14, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Adam Galambos
(MEDS)
"Revealed Preference in Game Theory"
Oct. 18, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Roc Armenter (Economics & New York Federal Reserve) "Redistribution, Time Consistent Fiscal Policy and Representative Democracy"
Oct. 21, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Gregory Pavlov (Economics) "Colluding on Participation Decisions"
Oct. 28, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Marcin Peski
(Economics)
"Small Group Coordination"
Nov. 1, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Tim Feddersen (MEDS) "Ethical Voters and Costly Information Acquisition"
Nov. 3, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
Kellogg-McCormick Joint Seminar Series Barry Nelson
(NU)
TBA
Nov. 4, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Nabil Al-Najjar
(MEDS)
"Sunk Cost Bias in Managerial Pricing Decisions"
Nov. 5, 2004
Room 561
1:30pm
Operations Seminar Series 2004/2005 Otis Jennings
(Duke)
 "A Taxonomy for Workstations in Serial Productions Systems" (working paper)
Nov. 11, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Pierpaolo Battigalli
(Università Bocconi, IEP and IGIER)
"Dynamic Psychological Games" (preliminary draft)
Nov. 12, 2004
Room 561
1:30pm
Operations Seminar Series 2004/2005 Amy Ward
(Georgia Tech)
 "Optimal Control of High-Volume Assemble-to-Order Systems"
Nov. 18, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series David McAdams
(MIT Sloan)
"Testing the Best Response Hypothesis in Multi-Unit Auctions"

Nov. 19, 2004
Room 561
1:00pm

Operations Seminar Series 2004/2005 Yong-Pin Zhou
(U. of Washington, Seattle)
 "Managing Response Time in a Call Routing Problem with Service Failure"
Nov. 22, 2004
Room 561
12 pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Johannes Horner and Steven Callandar (MEDS) "The Wisdom of the Minority"
Nov. 29, 2004
Room 561
12pm
Political Economy Seminar Series Cathy Hafer (NYU) "Coordination and Stand Off"
Dec. 2, 2004
Room 561
12pm
CMS-EMS Bag Lunch Series Alvaro Sandroni
(MEDS)
"Testing Knowledge"

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