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."

Abstract: Transfer learning focuses on building relationship among different tasks so that shared information can be transferred from related source tasks to the target task. Various statistical models have been developed/applied to build such relationship and facilitate the transfer...

Join us to hear from Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University.  His presentation is titled, "Research and/or Development?  Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment". 

Abstract: U.S. firms have reduced their investments in scientific research compared to product development. We use Census data to study how the composition of R&D responds to an increase in the cost of funds. Companies forced to refinance during the 2008 financial crisis made substantial cuts to R&D. These reductions were...

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

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Phil Smith is the National Field Director at the Concord Coalition and has more than two decades of experience at this organization. He helped conduct countless seminars, congressional and presidential town hall meetings, and public...

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...