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January 12 Seminar: Lada Adamic
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information, UM
"The Dynamics of Viral Marketing"

January 19 Seminar: Edward Vielmetti
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Owner, The Vacuum Group consulting firm
"How do ideas travel on the Internet?"

January 26 Seminar: Suresh Bhavnani
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information, UM
"GoogleBuddy: Towards a Collaborative System for Learning and Sharing Search Strategies"

February 2 Seminar: F. Randall Farmer
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Community Strategic Analyst, Yahoo!, Inc.
"Social Computing at Yahoo! Product Strategy and Research Opportunities"

February 9 Seminar: Peter Weinstein
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Information Technology Scientist, Altarum Institute
"Consensus Builder: A Place to Speak, Listen, and Be Counted"

February 16 Seminar: Patrick Bajari
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Professor of Economics, UM
"Semiparametric Discrete Choice With Aggregate Data"

Feb 23 Seminar: Mark Newman
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Associate Professor of Physics and Complex Systems, UM and External Faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute
"Modularity and Community Structure in Networks"

March 2: Spring Break

March 9 Seminar: Hal Varian
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Professorl of Information Management and Systems, Business, and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
"The Google Ad Auction"

March 16 Seminar: William Lovejoy
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Raymond T. Perring Family Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Operations and Management Science; Chair of Operations and Management Science, UM
"Pre-Auction Investments by Type-Conscious Agents"

March 23 Seminar: Beth Noveck
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Associate Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law School
"Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence for our Intellectual Property System"

March 30 Seminar: Muriel Niederle
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Assistant Professor in Economics, Stanford University

April 6 Seminar: Daniel Grosu
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wayne State University
"Strategyproof Mechanisms for Scheduling Divisible Loads"

April 13 Seminar: Demosthenis Teneketzis
4-5:30 pm, 2906 Cooley Bldg (Baer Room), 2355 Bonisteel Blvd
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UM
"Decentralized Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Networks: Realization and Implementation"

May 2 Research Workshop 9 am-5 pm, 411 West Hall
continental breakfast 8:30 am, lunch 12:30 pm.
Faculty and students presenting STIET research activity.
Contact Karen Woollams for more information or if you would like to participate.

The STIET Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Research Seminar Series is funded by a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop grant and the UM Office of the VP for Research.