Workshop on Mirror Symmetry and Stability
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis three-day workshop will take place at Harvard University on March 18-20, 2019 in Science Center room 507. The main topic will be stability conditions in homological mirror symmetry. This workshop is funded […]
Quality Externalities on Platforms: The Case of Airbnb
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sonia Jaffe (Microsoft) Title: Quality Externalities on Platforms: The Case of Airbnb Abstract: We explore quality externalities on platforms: when buyers have limited information, a seller's quality affects whether her buyers return […]
Machine Learning for Multiscale Model Reduction Workshop
VirtualThe Machine Learning for Multiscale Model Reduction Workshop will take place on March 27-29, 2019. This is the second of two workshops organized by Michael Brenner, Shmuel Rubinstein, and Tom Hou. The first, Fluid turbulence and Singularities of […]
Hyperbolic geometry of the olfactory space
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tatyana Sharpee (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) Title: Hyperbolic geometry of the olfactory space Abstract: The sense of smell can be used to avoid poisons or estimate a food’s nutrition content because biochemical reactions […]
Deregulation through Direct Democracy: Lessons from Liquor
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sarah Moshary (University of Chicago) Title: Deregulation through Direct Democracy: Lessons from Liquor Abstract: This paper examines the merits of state control versus private provision of spirits retail, using the 2012 deregulation of […]