Friday, April 2019
PER Distinguished Lecture: Harald Uhlig
Professor Harald Uhlig will consider the possibility of a future world where a privately issued currency such as bitcoin is used as a perfect substitute for goods purchases alongside an official currency such as the U.S. dollar, issued by a central bank who seeks to achieve a particular dollar inflation target. This framework will be used to derive implications for pricing, extending classic results by Kareken-Wallace, conditions that imply absence of speculation and consequences for dollar monetary policy. RSVP for this event
Find out more »Foundations for Research Computing Research Symposium
The inaugural Foundations for Research Computing Research Symposium will take place on Thursday, April 25th, 2019 in the Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Student Center on the Morningside campus. All Columbia graduate students and faculty will be invited to attend and showcase research posters at this event. Click here to register and Save the Date for the big event. Please return to this webpage in early-2019 for more information regarding registration, symposium agenda, featured speakers, and more. With any preliminary questions, please email rcfoundations@columbia.edu.
Find out more »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 »1022 International Affairs Building (IAB)
1022 International Affairs Building (IAB)
Mail Code 3308
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027