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January 18 Seminar: Peter Ludlow
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Professor of Philisophy and Linguistics, UM
"From the Jessie Wars to The Electric Sheep and Anshe Chung: The Dawn of the Metaverse and the Rise of the Web 3.D Development Companies"

January 25 Seminar: Lance Fortnow
4:30-5:30 pm, 3725 CSE, 2260 Hayward St--NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION
seminar offered jointly with the CSE Theory Seminar group
Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
"The Complexity of Forecast Testing"

February 1 Seminar: Michael Schapira
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Doctoral Student, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"The Strategic Justification for BGP"

February 8 Seminar: Volodymyr Babich
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, UM
"Supply Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Backup Production Option"

February 15 Seminar: Harold Abelson
4-5:00 pm, 411 West Hall or by video at 3244 SI North--NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"School of Information Dean Search Presentation"

February 22 Seminar: Daniel Reeves
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
"Yootopia!"

March 8 Seminar: Simon Parsons
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
"Steps Towards Automated Mechanism Design"

March 15 Seminar: Kevin Leyton-Brown
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia
"Action-Graph Games: Representing and Reasoning with Compact Games"

March 22 Seminar: Gueorgi Kossinets
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology and Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University
"Coordination, Reputation, and the Quality of Wikipedia Entries"

March 29 Seminar: Jenna Bednar
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UM
"Redundancy and Robustness: What Federalism Teaches Us About Optimal Imperfection"

April 5 Seminar: Damian Beil
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Assistant Professor of Business, UM
"Online Auctions to Learn Consumer Demand over a Short Selling Horizon"

April 12 Seminar: John Ledyard
4-5:30 pm, 1202 SI North 1075 Beal Ave.
Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
"Combinatorial Auction Design"

May 9 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.