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Seminars

The BT seminar consists of a series of talks related to business technologies and information systems. Topics include but are not restricted to evaluating the economic value of IT, innovative applications of machine learning to business analytics, large-data analysis, and system modeling. Location is in Posner Hall or GSIA (see Campus Maps).

To be updated about new seminars and last-minute changes to locations and times, please contact Mary Ann O’Brien to be signed up to our announcement list.

Schedule

The schedule below is tentative and may not reflect last-minute changes to time or locations. For accurate information, please consult the daily maintained BT seminar portion of the Pittsburgh Social Sciences Seminar tracker.

View Past Seminars

Fall 2017

Date/LocationTopicSpeakerAffiliation
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, GSIA 324 Faculty Conference Center

Friday, September 8, 2017

TBDEric SchwartzUniversity of Michigan
12:45 – 2:00 PM, Room 384 Posner Hall

Friday, October 6, 2017

TBDOded NetzerColumbia University
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, GSIA 324 Faculty Conference Center

Thursday, October 19, 2017

TBDGal Oestreicher – SingerTel Aviv University
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, GSIA 324 Faculty Conference Center

Friday, October 27, 2017

TBD Daria Dzyabura
New York University

Fall 2016

Date/LocationTopicSpeakerAffiliation
Thr, Nov 10, 2016, 12:30 pm
Posner 388

Utilizing Worker Groups and Task Dependencies in Crowdsourcing
(Paper 1) (Paper 2)

Prakhar OjhaIndian Institute of Science
Fr, Oct 21, 2016, 12:00 pm
Posner 388

Harnessing reviews to build richer models of opinions

Julian McAuley University of San Diego
Fr, Oct 14, 2016, 12:30 pm
Posner 147

Open Innovation in the Digital Age

Sabine BrunswickerPurdue
Fr, Sep 30, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324

Impact of Easier Store Access on Customers’ Online Purchase Behavior

Anuj KumarUniversity of Florida
Fr, Sep 2, 2016, 12:00 pm
Posner 343

Repeated Interactions vs. Social Ties: Quantifying the Economic Value of Trust, Forgiveness, and Reputation Using a Field Experiment

Liangfei QiuUniversity of Florida

Spring 2016

Date/LocationTopicSpeakerAffiliation
Fr, Apr 29, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324

Writers, designers, and software developers: skill networks and measures of complex human capital

Katharine AndersonCarnegie Mellon University
Fr, Apr 22, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324
TBAMingfeng LinUniversity of Arizona
Fr, Apr 15, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324

Creating Social Contagion Through Firm Mediated Message Design: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Siva ViswanathanUniversity of Maryland
Fr, Apr 8, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 322

The FAST Model for Efficiently Incorporating General Features to Infer Student Knowledge: Applications, Evaluations and Issues

Yun HuangU Pitt (Paper 1) (Paper 2)
Fr, Mar 18, 2016, 12:00 pm
Posner 152

The Roles of Sports in Social Network Formation

Sean TaylorFacebook
Fr, Feb 12, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324

Reliably Embracing Unreliable Data

Oliver Kennedy

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (Paper 1) (Paper 2)

Fr, Jan 29, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324

Offline Showrooms and Customer Migration in Omni-Channel Retail

Antonio Moreno-GarciaNorthwest University (Paper 1)
Fr, Jan 22, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 324

Scaling and Democratizing Learning with Data

Igor LabutovCornell
Fr, Jan 15, 2016, 12:00 pm
GSIA 322

How can we design online communities to do very large-scale collective problem solving? The case of the Climate CoLab

Thomas MaloneMIT

Last modified: September 5, 2017

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