Friday, May 2019
Workshop on Efficient Coding and Resource-Limited Cognition
This workshop is currently full. Please contact econ-per@columbia.edu with any questions. Program Schedule 8:30-9:00: Arrival and Breakfast SESSION 1: Efficient Compressed Representations (Chair: Rava Azeredo da Silveira, ENS) 9:00-10:00: Keynote Lecture: Naftali Tishby , “Information Constrained Decision Making and Planning” 10:00-10:40: Noga Zaslavsky , “Efficient Coding and the Evolution of Semantic Systems” 10:40-11:10: Break 11:10-11:50: Matthew Botvinick , “Deep Learning and Structure-sensitive Credit Assignment” 11:50-12:30: Sophia Sanborn , “Efficient Coding Under Reward: Compressing to Learn in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning” 12:30-13:00: …
Find out more »Ph.D. Student Summer Reading Groups
This program is currently at capacity. Please contact econ-per@columbia.edu with any questions. This summer, PER will sponsor five small PhD student reading groups. Students will work with sponsoring faculty throughout June, July, and August. Open to current Ph.D. students only.
Find out more »Monday, August 2019
Incoming Student Math Camp
The department will be welcoming the fifth cohort of MA students to the program this Fall. Students will begin arriving throughout August for math camp, which will be held August 12-29th.
Find out more »Tuesday, September 2019
What is Suffering Worth? Perspectives Across Disciplines on the Treatment of Victims
This interdisciplinary symposium explores a crucial but little-studied issue with growing importance today: what is the value of harm suffered by victims, whether of terrorism, crime or natural disasters. In law, politics, economics and public opinion, answers differ widely, and unequal treatment is the norm. Across the globe, victims evoke a range of feelings, from compassion verging on celebrations of heroism, to denial, anger, indifference and even repulsion. Those reactions translate into wide variations in legal and economic responses to…
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