CMU Econ-CS Seminar Series

Archive: Fall 2025
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About the Econ-CS Seminar Series

This is the home page for the Econ-CS Seminar Series at the School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University. The faculty coordinator is Vincent Conitzer and the student coordinator is Emin Berker. The mailing list for upcoming EconCS Seminar talk announcements is on the SCS mailman server. Unless otherwise noted, the meetings are on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM Eastern Time (always available virtually, and usually in person in NSH 3001).

This seminar aims to cover a wide variety of topics at the intersection of economics and computer science, such as game theory, learning theory, mechanism design, societal/economic etc. Please contact Emin for arrangements or questions about this page.

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Schedule

Date & Time Location Speaker Affiliation Title
August 8, 2025
11:00AM		 GHC 6501
Zoom		 Dominik Peters LAMSADE. Computing Lindahl Equilibrium for Public Goods with and without Funding Caps
September 25, 2025
4:00PM		 GHC 8102
Zoom		 Andy Haput Stanford Preference Measurement Error, Concentration in Recommendation Systems, and Persuasion
October 28, 2025
4:00PM		 GHC 8102
Zoom		 Carlos Martin Carnegie Mellon University ApproxED: Approximate exploitability descent via learned best responses
November 4, 2025
4:00PM		 NSH 3305
Zoom		 Brian H. Zhang MIT Scale-Invariant Regret Matching and Online Learning with Optimal Convergence: Bridging Theory and Practice in Zero-Sum Games
November 11, 2025
4:00PM		 NSH 3305
Zoom		 Alec Sun University of Chicago Conservative classifiers do consistently well with improving agents: characterizing statistical and online learning
November 19, 2025
4:00PM		 NSH 3305
Zoom		 Matt Casey Northwestern Justified Representation: From Hare to Droop
November 25, 2025
1:00PM		 GHC 9115
Zoom		 Sílvia Casacuberta Puig Stanford Justified Representation: How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy
November 25, 2025
4:00PM		 NSH 3305
Zoom		 Caspar Oesterheld Carnegie Mellon University Safe (Pareto) improvements — a new approach in game theory
December 2, 2025
4:00PM		 NSH 3305
Zoom		 Naveen Raman Carnegie Mellon University Assortment Optimization for Patient-Provider Matching
December 4, 2025
4:00PM		 GHC 8102
Zoom		 Eden Hartman Bar-Ilan University Reducing Leximin Fairness to Utilitarian Optimization
December 5, 2025
11:00AM		 GHC 9115
Zoom		 Prasanna Ramakrishnan Stanford How to Appease a Voter Majority

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