CMU Econ-CS Seminar Series

Archive: Spring 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.

Schedule - Spring 2025

Date & Time Location Speaker Affiliation Title
Dec 5, 2024
12:00PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Jiasun Li George Mason Profit Division Among Privately-Informed Agents and Beyond
Jan 21, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Brian H. Zhang Carnegie Mellon University Computational Game Theory in the Modern Age: New Techniques and Connections
Jan 28, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Rattana Pukdee Carnegie Mellon University Nash Equilibria and Pitfalls of Adversarial Training in Adversarial Robustness Games
Feb 4, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Naveen Raman Carnegie Mellon University Ex-Global Rewards in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits
Feb 12, 2025
1:00PM		 GHC 7101
Zoom		 Jiahao Zhang Carnegie Mellon University Ex-post Individually Rational Bayesian Persuasion
Feb 18, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Emanuel Tewolde Carnegie Mellon University Imperfect-Recall Games: Equilibrium Concepts and Their Complexity
Feb 18, 2025
1:00PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Emin Berker Carnegie Mellon University The Value of Recall in Extensive-Form Games
Feb 24, 2025
1:15PM		 GHC 7501
Zoom		 Eugene Vorobeychik WashU Achieving AI Safety in a Contested World
Mar 11, 2025
1:00PM		 GHC 6501
Zoom		 Caspar Oesterheld Carnegie Mellon University New foundational ideas for cooperative AI
Mar 18, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Carlos Martin Carnegie Mellon University Finding mixed-strategy Nash equilibria of black-box continuous-action games using randomized policy networks and joint-perturbation simultaneous pseudo-gradients
Mar 25, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Jingwu Tang & Jiahao Zhang Carnegie Mellon University Dimension-Free Decision Calibration for Nonlinear Losses
Apr 1, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Emin Berker Carnegie Mellon University From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination
Apr 15, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Harrison Grodin Carnegie Mellon University Compositional Game Theory
Apr 22, 2025
12:30PM		 NSH 3001
Zoom		 Kiriaki (Korinna) Fragkia Carnegie Mellon University Learning in Structured Stackelberg Games

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