NY Computer Science and Economics Day, Friday Oct. 15, all day

I found this on the NY Academy of Sciences email list.  FYI, in case you're wondering where I am this  weekend, I am attending the Millennium Campus Conference at Columbia University.  Super inspiring stuff!
Happy networking,
Katharine
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Friday, October 15, 2010

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

New York, NY
at the New York Academy of Sciences Conference Center7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl, New York, NY 10007-2157


New York Computer Science and Economics Day
The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers in the larger New York metropolitan area with interests in Computer Science, Economics, Marketing and Business and a common focus in understanding and developing the economics of internet activity.
Agenda Sessions Include:

• Computational Aspects of Equilibria
  Mihalis Yannakakis, PhD, Columbia University

• Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design for Multi-Armed Bandit Processes
  Sham Kakade, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

• Portfolios from Sorts
  Robert Almgren, PhD, New York University and Quantitative Brokers

• Converting any Algorithm into an Incentive-Compatible Mechanism
  Robert Kleinberg, PhD, Cornell University

• Mechanism Design Double Feature
  Hal Varian, PhD, University of California, Berkeley and Google

To read the full abstracts, please visit www.nyas.org/nyce2010.

Organizing Committee:

• Christian Borgs, PhD, Microsoft
• Michael Kearns, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Sebastien Lahaie, PhD, Yahoo
• Vahab Mirrokni, PhD, Google