Tuesday, February 2020
Memory and Representativeness – Andrei Shleifer
The Cognition and Decision Seminar Series presents Memory and Representativeness Andrei Shleifer Harvard University We explore the idea that judgment by representativeness reflects the workings of episodic memory, especially interference. In a new laboratory experiment on cued recall, participants are shown two groups of images with different distributions of colors. We find that i) decreasing the frequency of a given color in one group significantly increases the recalled frequency of that color in the other group, ii) for a…
Find out more »PER Mini Course – Serguei Maliar, Associate Professor in Economics, Santa Clara University
Artificial intelligence and deep learning solution methods for dynamic economic models Venue: This Program for Economic Research (PER)'s Spring Mini Course will be held in two parts. Part I: Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 1:00-3:00pm (Uris 332) (get directions) Part II: Thursday, February 27, 2020, 12:00-2:00pm (Uris 301) (get directions) *Open to current Columbia University students only Speaker: Serguei Maliar, Associate Professor in Economics, Santa Clara University Artificial intelligence (AI) has many impressive applications, including playing chess and Go, self-driving cars, computer vision, and speech…
Find out more »Thursday, March 2020
Monday, May 2020
Geolocation Economics
Venue and Time: This event will take place a Zoom conference on Monday, May 4th from 11:00AM to 1:00PM (EST). A Zoom invitation will be sent to registered attendees the morning of the event. Registration details below. Geolocation Economics is part of the ongoing CFM-PER Data Initiative. Find more information about the CFM-PER Data Initiative here. About: Geolocation data from mobile phones and other digital platforms including payment are becoming increasingly available. The goal of the event is to explore the possible…
Find out more »Monday, August 2020
Incoming M.A. Student Math Camp
The department welcomes the incoming cohort of M.A. students to the program! Students will attend Math Camp in late summer, from August 17th - September 3rd.
Find out more »1022 International Affairs Building (IAB)
1022 International Affairs Building (IAB)
Mail Code 3308
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027