Friday, September 2019
Third Annual Columbia Conference on Economic Theory (CCET)
Venue: The 3rd Columbia Conference on Economic Theory (CCET) will be held on September 13-14, 2019. On Friday, September 13th, the conference will take place in 301 Uris Hall and on Saturday, September 14th, the conference will be held in 142 Uris Hall (get directions). Faculty Organizers: Yeon-Koo Che & Evan Sadler Preliminary Schedule: Friday, September 13th 9:00AM: Breakfast and Registration 9:55AM: Welcome Remarks 10:00AM: Joel Sobel (UC San Diego), "Simultaneous Versus Sequential Disclosure" (Co-authored by Peicong (Keri) Hu) 10:50AM: Coffee Break 11:05AM: Rahul Deb (University of…
Find out more »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 »The Bayesian Sampler: Generic Bayesian Inference Causes Incoherence in Human Probability Judgments
The Cognition and Decision Seminar Series presents The Bayesian Sampler: Generic Bayesian Inference Causes Incoherence in Human Probability Judgments Dr. Adam Sanborn University of Warwick Human probability judgments are systematically biased, in apparent tension with Bayesian models of cognition. But perhaps the brain does not represent probabilities explicitly, but approximates probabilistic calculations through a process of sampling, as used in computational probabilistic models in statistics. Naïve probability estimates can be obtained by calculating the relative frequency of an event…
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…
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