Chao Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Iowa. He will present "Statistical Transfer Learning for Modeling, Monitoring, and Prognosis."

Join us to hear from Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University.

"Principles and Priorities" Federal Budget Exercise is an interactive exercise in which participants learn how interesting and challenging it can be to assemble a federal budget.

Please join us for a presentation by Justin Kirkland entitled "Focus on Sona Systems for Participant Recruitment and Study Management."

Join us to hear from Yu Awaya, University of Rochester, presenting, "Spreading Information via Social Networks: An Irrelevance Result." Abstract: An informed planner wishes to spread information among a group of agents in order to induce efficient coordination—say the adoption of a new technology with positive externalities. The agents are connected via a social network. The planner informs a seed and then the information spreads via the network. While the structure of the network affects the rate of diffusion, we show that the rate of adoption is the same for all acyclic networks.