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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.
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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),…
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Elaine Wah commentary in The Guardian

The Guardian comment piece on Michael Lewis's Flash Boys and the HFT debate.
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Elaine Wah Wins Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement

Congratulations, Elaine. The Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize recognizes outstanding research, leadership, and academic performance among College of Engineering graduate students.  2014 EECS winners (one per graduate program).
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Bryce Wiedenbeck defends thesis proposal

Congratulations to Bryce, on successfully defending his dissertation proposal, "Approximate game theoretic analysis for large simulation-based games". His thesis committee comprises Satinder Baveja, Grant Schoenebeck, Tilman Borgers (Economics),…
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Bryce Wiedenbeck wins Towner Prize: Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor

Congratulations to SRG student Bryce Wiedenbeck: one of the 2014 winners of the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for outstanding GSI in Engineering. Award citation here.
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SRG Alum Dan Reeves, with Bethany Soule on NBC News

showing us how to walk the walk on market-based decision making...
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Erik Brinkman passes prelim

Congrats to SRG PhD student Erik Brinkman, for passing his preliminary exam: the research-based component of the qualification process at Michigan.
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Dylan Hurd’s SURE Project Video

Summer undergraduate researcher Dylan Hurd created a video about his project on high-frequency trading.
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SI REU Video

Video documenting the 2013 REU program run by the School of Information. Featuring SRG summer undergraduate researcher Chris Rockwell, and mentor Erik Brinkman.