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IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2010

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Mark Handcock
UCLA

Friday,
February 12th 

11:30am-12:30pm
KMC 5-90

Statistical Methods for Sampling Hidden Networked Populations
This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Statistics.

Tunay Tunca
Stanford

Monday,           February 15th

12:30-2:00pm
KMC 5-85

An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality, and Incumbency in Online Service Procurement Auctions (joint work with DJ Wu and Vivian Zhong)
This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Operations Management. 

Steven Johnson
Temple

Thursday,
April 1st

4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90

TBA

David Blei
Princeton

Thursday,
April 8th

4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90

TBA

                                        ***More IS Research Seminars to be announced soon.***
 
 

IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: FALL 2009

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

S. Muthu Muthukrishnan
Google and 
Rutgers University

Thursday,
September 17 

4:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85

Research Issues in Internet Ad Exchanges

Matt Jackson
Stanford University

Thursday,
September 24

4:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85

Identifying the Roles of Choice and Chance in Network Formation: Racial Biases in High School Friendships 

Peter Fader 
Wharton, UPenn

Thursday,
October 8

4:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85

Customer-Base Analysis in a Discrete-Time Noncontractual Setting 

Nikolay Archak
NYU Stern

Thursday,
October 15

4:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-80

Money, glory and entry deterrence: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com

David Huffaker 
University of Michigan

Thursday,
November 19

4:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85

Dimensions of Leadership and Social Influence in Online Communities 

Karim Lakhani 
Harvard

Thursday, December 3

4:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85

The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation
 
 

IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2009

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Youngjin Yoo 
Temple University

Thursday Feburary 12

3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90

Path Creation in Innovation Design: A Multi-Layered Perspective 

Alessandro Acquisti  Carnegie Mellon

Thursday February 19 3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Inferring Sensitive Information from Public Data
Carter Butts 
UC Irvine
 

Thursday
March 5

3:30-5 pm
KMC 5-90

Coping with Disruption: Emergent Networks During Disasters 
Sarah Rice 
University of Connecticut
 

Thursday
March 26

3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90

Simultaneous Online Auctions by Sellers of Different Reputations: Theory and Experimental Evidence 

Lee Fleming
Harvard Business School

Thursday
April 2
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Regional Disadvantage: How Non-compete Agreements Impact Careers, Entrepreneurship, and Innovative Dynamics
Ray Reagans
Carnegie Mellon
 
Thursday
April 9
3:45-5:15 pm
Room TBA
This seminar has been canceled. This seminar has been rescheduled for May 7.

Vijay Gurbaxani           UC Irvine

Tuesday    April 21 12:45             KMC 8-170

Performance Measurement and IT Outsourcing                                                                                                        - RSVP required; please contact Shirley Lau at 212 998 0810

Avi Bernstein
University of Zurich
 
Thursday
April 23
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90
Tell Me Where You’ve Lived, and I’ll Tell You What You Like: Adapting Interfaces to Cultural Preferences
Michael Kearns University of Pennsylvania Thursday
April 30

3:45-5:15 pm
Room TBA

This seminar has been canceled. We hope to reschedule the speaker in the fall. 

Ray Reagans
Carnegie Mellon
 

Thursday      May 7

3:45-5:15 pm KMC 5-75

Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The impact of strong ties, network cohesion and network range 
 

IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: FALL 2008

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Jure Leskovec 
Cornell/Stanford

Thursday
September 18

3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80

Dynamics of Large Networks

Mark Mortensen
MIT

Tuesday
September 30

12:45-2:15 pm
KMC 5-75

Walking a Mile In Their Shoes: First-Hand Experience and Reflexive and Direct Cross-Site

Knowledge as Determinants of Effective Global Collaborations 

Claudia Perlich
IBM Research

Thursday
October 23

3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80

Winner’s Report: KDD CUP Breast Cancer Identification 

Paul Leonardi
Northwestern University

Thursday
October 30

3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80

Talking about Technology: A Comparative Study of Framing, Appropriation and Network Change in Organizations 

Michael Macy
Cornell University

Thursday
November 13

3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80

Social Contagions and Online Networks
Ravi Aron
University of Southern Califoria
Thursday
November 20
3:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80
The Market for Complexity Arbitrage: Process Structure and Market Outcomes in Offshore Sourcing Of Services – Evidence from Field Research
 
PREVIOUS SEMESTERS:
 

SPRING 2008

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/

LOCATION

TITLE

Gueorgi Kossinets

Cornell

Thursday,

January 24th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-80

Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network

Deepa Mani

UT Austin

Tuesday,

February 5th

12:30 pm,

KMC 5-80

Outsourcing Discount or Paradox?
An Analysis of Long-Term Abnormal Stock Returns across Outsourcing Contracts

Marc Smith

Microsoft

Tuesday,

February 12th

12:30 pm,

KMC 5-80

Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups

Sonny Tambe

Wharton

Thursday,

February 14th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-80

Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers, and the Information Technology Revolution

Yiling Chen
Yahoo!

Thursday,

February 21th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-80

Strategic Behavior and Combinatorial Betting in Prediction Markets

Rica Gonen

Yahoo!

Thursday,

March 6th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-80

Truthful Adaptive Sponsored Search Mechanisms

Emmanuelle Vaast

LIU

Wednesday,

April 9th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-80

Trans-situated learning:
Supporting a network of practice with an information infrastructure

Kartik Hosanagar
Wharton

Thursday,

April 17th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-80

Blockbuster Culture’s Next Rise or Fall:
The Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity

 

FALL 2007

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/

LOCATION

TITLE

University of Chicago

Thursday,

September 20th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-90

Social Capital Process Clues from Network Spillover
Paper 

Lada Adamic
University of Michigan

Thursday,

October 18th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-90

Expertise Sharing Dynamics in Online Forums
Paper

Lorin Hitt
U. Penn, Wharton

Thursday,

October 25th

4:00 pm,

KMC 5-90

Offshoring, Skills, and Employment:
Evidence from Information Technology Workers, 1995-2006
Paper

Usama Fayyed
Yahoo!

Thursday,

November 1st

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-90

Inventing the New Sciences of the Internet:
Towards Understanding the New Interactive Media

IBM

Thursday,

November 8th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-90

KDD-CUP goes NETFLIX: Modeling Movie Ratings using Poisson Regression
Paper

CMU

Thursday,

November 15th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-90

How do Project Managers’ Skills Affect Project Success in IT Outsourcing?
Paper

Harvard

Thursday,

November 29th

4:15 pm,

KMC 5-90

Explorations in Computational Mechanism Design

 

 

For information on how to participate in the IOMS-IS Research Seminar Series, please contact Sonny Tambe or Arun Sundararajan.