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.
Fall 2017
| Date/Location | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, GSIA 324 Faculty Conference Center
Friday, September 8, 2017 | TBD | Eric Schwartz | University of Michigan |
| 12:45 – 2:00 PM, Room 384 Posner Hall
Friday, October 6, 2017 | TBD | Oded Netzer | Columbia University |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, GSIA 324 Faculty Conference Center
Thursday, October 19, 2017 | TBD | Gal Oestreicher – Singer | Tel 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/Location | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thr, Nov 10, 2016, 12:30 pm Posner 388 |
Utilizing Worker Groups and Task Dependencies in Crowdsourcing | Prakhar Ojha | Indian 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 Brunswicker | Purdue |
| Fr, Sep 30, 2016, 12:00 pm GSIA 324 |
Impact of Easier Store Access on Customers’ Online Purchase Behavior
| Anuj Kumar | University 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 Qiu | University of Florida |
Spring 2016
| Date/Location | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fr, Apr 29, 2016, 12:00 pm GSIA 324 |
Writers, designers, and software developers: skill networks and measures of complex human capital | Katharine Anderson | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Fr, Apr 22, 2016, 12:00 pm GSIA 324 | TBA | Mingfeng Lin | University 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 Viswanathan | University 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 Huang | U Pitt (Paper 1) (Paper 2) |
| Fr, Mar 18, 2016, 12:00 pm Posner 152 |
The Roles of Sports in Social Network Formation | Sean Taylor | |
| 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-Garcia | Northwest University (Paper 1) |
| Fr, Jan 22, 2016, 12:00 pm GSIA 324 |
Scaling and Democratizing Learning with Data | Igor Labutov | Cornell |
| 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 Malone | MIT |
Last modified: September 5, 2017