CMU Econ-CS Seminar Series
Current Semester: Fall 2026
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 and available here. Unless otherwise noted, the meetings are on Tuesdays at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (always available virtually, and usually in person in GHC 8102).
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.
Schedule - Fall 2026
| Date & Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 15, 2026 2:00 PM |
NSH 3305 Zoom |
Nihar Shah | CMU | ArabIan Nights: Tales of AI, Science, and Trouble |
| September 23, 2026 3:30 PM |
GHC 6115 Zoom |
Kate Donahue | UIUC | One AI, two AI, red AI, blue AI: Impacts of Aggregation on Model Diversity and Consumer Utility |
| September 23, 2026 4:30 PM |
GHC 6115 Zoom |
Jiannan Xu | UMD | Escaping the Nash Trap: Structural Estimation and Alignment of Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models |
| September 29, 2026 2:00 PM |
NSH 3305 Zoom |
Brian Zhang | MIT | TBD |
Links
- Other related seminars at CMU:
- CMU's School of Computer Science (SCS) event calendar