Dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge

Tippie College of Business is dedicated to sharing our research with the world. Our multiple research forum series brings together esteemed scholars, faculty, and researchers from across the campus and across the globe to share their work in all of our disciplines.

Join us to discuss some of the most important topics in business research.

Upcoming research forums

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Michele Belot
Monday, March 2, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Michele Belot is the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

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ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.MENGXIAO ZHANG
Thursday, March 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Mengxiao Zhang, Professor of Business Analytics at Tippie College of Business, to the ISE graduate seminar. Dr. Zhang will present his seminar titled"New Challenges for (Contextual) Multi-Armed Bandits: Fairness Objectives, Indirect Feedback, and Beyond" on Thursday, March 5th, from 3:30 - 4:20 p.m. in 4030 SC.

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Colloquium - When 'Good' Systems Fail: What Employment Technologies Miss Under Real-World Constraints
Friday, March 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Tawanna Dillahunt, PhD, from the University of Michigan School of Information, who will speak to the design and deployment of employment technologies, considering real-world constraints rather than idealized conditions.
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Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research
Monday, March 9, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This panel will offer a high-level overview of how community, government, and industry considerations shape data center development in Iowa and the broader Midwest.
Clarence Tow Seminar in Economics: Brantley Callaway
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Brantly Callaway is the P. George Benson Professor and an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Georgia.

Clarence Tow Seminar in Economics: Ted O'Donoghue
Monday, March 23, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Ted O'Donoghue is the Zubrow Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

Past research forums

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: David Woodruff - Computational Issues in Stochastic Programming for Management Problems
Friday, September 9, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

David Woodruff is a professor at the University of California-Davis Graduate School Management. Speaker bio and abstract.

Business Analytics Guest Lecture: Stephen Wright - Optimization Theory and Practice
Friday, August 26, 2022 11:00am to 12:00pm
Pomerantz Center

Stephen Wright, professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducts research in computational optimization and its applications to data science and many other areas of science and engineering. Speaker bio and abstract.

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UNI - John Deere Symposium on Machine Learning
Friday, April 22, 2022 9:50am to 2:00pm

The symposium will be held at the University of Northern Iowa, Maucker Union, Rooms A & B for those who want to attend in person and online via Zoom for anyone who wants to attend virtually. You must register to receive the link to the virtual event.

Registration is free and open to industry professionals, academic faculty and students interested in the fields of data science, analytics, computer science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, and business.

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Stephanie Arne: Keynote Speaker for the One Sustainable Iowa Conference
Saturday, April 9, 2022 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Registration is now open for the 2022 One Sustainable Iowa Conference, which will take place on Saturday, April 9th from 9am-4pm on the University of Iowa campus. The goal of the Conference is to connect students throughout Iowa who have interests in sustainability. All students, faculty, and staff from any higher ed institution in Iowa are invited to attend this Conference. Information about the Conference can be found here: https://www.onesustainableiowa.com/. Current University of Iowa...

Decision Making under Uncertainty: An Optimization Perspective
Friday, March 4, 2022 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Beste Basciftci, Dept. of Business Analytics

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Colloquium - Programming Languages Techniques for Controlling Generalization Errors in Adaptive Data Analysis
Friday, October 22, 2021 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Speaker

Marco Gaboardi (Boston University)

Abstract

Data analysts aim at guaranteeing that the result of a data analysis run on sample data does not differ too much from the result one would achieve by running the analysis over the entire population. To achieve this goal, they have developed several techniques to control the generalization errors of their data analyses. In this talk, I will discuss how programming language techniques can help data analysts to design adaptive data analyses...

Behavioral Research Roundtable Series

Hosted by the Tippie Research Office, the Behavioral Research Roundtable Series offers a space for faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students to share and discuss behavioral research in a collaborative, low-pressure setting.

Business Analytics Guest Lecturer Seminar Series

Join us to hear from high-profile business analytics researchers.

Clarence Tow Lectures in Economics

Scholars from both the private and public sectors present to economics faculty and students roughly once a week during the academic year.

Clarence Tow Lectures in Finance

Top finance researchers present at Tippie to faculty, PhD students, and researchers from the University of Iowa.

Research Methods Roundtable Series

Presented by the Tippie Research Office in collaboration with the Departments of Business Analytics, Economics, and Finance, this series highlights research methods.