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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
Ron Burt 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
Claudia Perlich IBM	Thursday, November 8th	4:15 pm, KMC 5-90	KDD-CUP goes NETFLIX: Modeling Movie Ratings using Poisson Regression Paper
Tridas Mukhopadhyay CMU	Thursday, November 15th	4:15 pm, KMC 5-90	How do Project Managers’ Skills Affect Project Success in IT Outsourcing? Paper
David Parkes Harvard	Thursday, November 29th	4:15 pm, KMC 5-90	Explorations in Computational Mechanism Design

PREVIOUS IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Fall 2006 & Spring 2007 Seminars Fall 2005 & Spring 2006 Seminars Spring 2005 Seminars Seminars before 2005

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