Elaine’s talk at the Financial Stability Conference last Wednesday
UM student Elaine Wah on high-frequency trading and frequent call markets: https://t.co/VEf2ujSw4Y #FinReg pic.twitter.com/EhwyX02lkV — Michigan CFLP (@UMFinReg) October 21, 2015
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Bryce Wiedenbeck defends dissertation
Bryce Wiedenbeck successfully defended his thesis on Monday 1 June. The dissertation is titled Approximate Analysis of Large Simulation-Based Games and includes several new techniques that enable simulation-based game modeling methods to scale in the number of players, among other contributions. Congratulations, Bryce.
3d Annual AI Lab Mini-Symposium
Wednesday 20 May 2015, 1690 BBB A special symposium to present the latest research to come out of the Michigan AI Lab, and celebrate our research accomplishments. The program will comprise presentations by AI Lab grad students of research results presented at conferences over this academic year. All are welcome to attend. So that we can get […]
Bartley Tablante defends dissertation
Bartley Tablante successfully defended his PhD dissertation in the Dept of Economics yesterday. The dissertation, titled “Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets”, comprises three papers: two focused on conditions for learning through distributed trade, and one on “Equilibria in a Market with a Front Runner”. Congratulations, Bartley.
Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS: Elaine Wah
The “Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award” at AAMAS-15 was awarded to Elaine Wah, for: Welfare Effects of Market Making in Continuous Double Auctions
Elaine Wah Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Read about it here. This will support Elaine’s final year of PhD study, and adds to her long list of accolades. Congratulations!
Bryce Wiedenbeck wins CSE Grad Honors Competition
first place! This is the annual competition featuring research presentations by advanced CSE PhD students. details here
Ben Cassell defends dissertation
Ben-Alexander Cassell successfully defended his thesis today. Ben’s dissertation, entitled Scaling Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis, reports several practical advances in EGTA technology, methodology, and application. Congratulations, Ben.
Bartley Tablante defends thesis proposal
Congratulations, Bartley. It’s been a while since I’ve been on an Econ thesis committee. A very interesting discussion, with Bartley and my fellow committee members Tilman Borgers, David Miller, and Stephan Lauermann.
Elaine Wah defends thesis proposal
Congratulations to Elaine, on successfully defending her dissertation proposal, “Computational models of algorithmic trading in financial markets”. Her thesis committee members are Jacob Abernethy, Michael Barr (Law), Uday Rajan (Finance), and myself.
