Thursday, September 2019
PER Mini Course – David Blei, Professor of Statistics & Computer Science, Columbia University
Variational Inference: Foundations and Innovations Venue: The Program for Economic Research (PER)'s Fall Mini Course will be held in two parts. Part I: Thursday, September 26, 2:30pm– 4:30pm, Room 301, Uris Hall (get directions) Part II: Friday, September 27, 2:00pm-4:00pm, Room 301, Uris Hall (get directions). *Open to current Columbia University students only Speaker: David Blei, Professor of Statistics & Computer Science, Columbia University A core problem of modern statistics and machine learning is to approximate difficult-to-compute probability distributions. This problem is especially important in probabilistic…
Find out more »Friday, October 2019
Capitalism, Conflict, and Cooperation: A Celebration of the Work of Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis
Venue & Dates: Capitalism, Conflict, and Cooperation: A Celebration of the Work of Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis will be held in the Kellogg Center on the 15th Floor of Columbia University's International Affairs Building (get directions) on Friday, October 4th from 1:30-5:30PM and Saturday, October 5th from 9:00AM-5:30PM. Faculty Organizers: Suresh Naidu & Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University; Michael Reich, UC Berkeley Speakers & Schedule: Friday, October 4th - 1501 International Affairs Building 1:30PM Welcome and Introduction, Suresh Naidu (Columbia) 2:00PM Panel 1: Power and…
Find out more »The Center For Environmental Economics and Policy’s (CEEP) Inaugural Conference
The Center For Environmental Economics and Policy’s (CEEP) Inaugural Conference will be held at The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts (get directions) on October 18, 2019, from 9AM-5PM. Faculty Organizers: Douglas Almond & Wolfram Schlenker Schedule: Preliminary Agenda Eyal Frank, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago Solomon Hsiang, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Kimberly Lai Oremus, Assistant Professor, School of Marine and Science Policy, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of Delaware Kyle…
Find out more »75th Anniversary of “An American Dilemma”
Venue: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Additional details forthcoming.
Find out more »Friday, December 2019
Development Nano-Conference
Venue & Dates: The Development Nano-Conference will be held in rooms 1101 and 1120 of Columbia University’s International Affairs Building (get directions) on Friday, December 13th from 9:00AM-5:30PM. Faculty Organizers: Michael Best & Jack Willis Presentations from: Belinda Archibong (Barnard) Laura Boudreau (Columbia) Alex Eble (Columbia) Michael Gechter (Penn State) Morgan Hardy (NYU, Abu Dhabi) Johannes Haushofer (Princeton) Christopher Neilson (Princeton) Heitor Pellegrina (NYU, Abu Dhabi) Alessandra Peter (Princeton) Martin Rotemberg (NYU) Nick Ryan (Yale) Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton) Registration: By invitation only.…
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