CS 7890

Theory Seminar
Fall 2010
CS 7890

*All seminars held in 5130 Upson Hall at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted*

Date & Time	Speaker	Title	Host
August 23, 2010	Jacob Abernethy, Berkeley	*Special Seminar - not part of fall seminar series* 2:00pm Monday August 23, 2010 2:00pm Upson 5126 Blackwell Approachability meets Regret Minimization in the Dual	Bobby Kleinberg
August 30, 2010	Robert Kleinberg	Reducing (Bayesian) Mechanism Design to Algorithm Design
September 13, 2010	Silvio Milcali, MIT	The Second-Knowledge Mechanism	Rafael Pass
September 20, 2010		No Theory Seminar
September 27, 2010	Patrick Briest	The Power of Uncertainty: Bundle Pricing for Unit-Demand Customers	Bobby Kleinberg
October 4, 2010	Alessadro Panconesi	Rumour spreading in social networks
October 11, 2010		No Theory Seminar - Fall Break
October 18, 2010	Renato Paes Leme	Pure and Bayes-Nash Price of Anarchy for Generalized Second Price Auction (with Eva Tardos)	Bobby Kleinberg
October 25, 2010	Bart Lipman, Boston University	***Special Theory Seminar to be held jointly with the Microeconomics Workshop and being presented by CINCE, The Center for the Interface of Networks, Computing and Economics. Costly Self Control and Random Indulgence. ******4:15pm 498 Uris Hall****	CINCE/Center for the Interface of Network, Computing and Economics
November 1, 2010		THEORY SEMINAR IS CANCELED.
November 8, 2010		THEORY SEMINAR IS CANCELED.
November 15, 2010	Sigal Oren	Mechanisms for (Mis)allocating Scientific Credit	Bobby Kleinberg
November 22, 2010	Andrew V. Goldberg, Microsoft Research-Silicon Valley	Highway Dimension: From Practice to Theory and Back	Bobby Kleinberg
November 29, 2010	Shaddin Dughmi, Stanford University	How to compute in a selfish society: randomness may be the key	Bobby Kleinberg

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