Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University Information Systems Research Seminar Series: 2003-2004 The Information Systems Research Seminar meets about once every two weeks, on Thursday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45, in room 5-80 at the Kaufman Managment Education Center. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Information Systems group of the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, and CeDER: the Center for Digital Economy Research. The seminar features a mix of researchers and faculty members from NYU and other leading universities/research institutions. The talk is followed by a CeDER-sponsored reception between 6:00 and 7:00, where the discussion continues. The seminar for 2003-04 was organized by Arun Sundararajan. If you'd like to participate in the seminar, get details about current or past talks, or join the announcement mailing list, contact Julia Mills. Current semester's schedule

Schedule of speakers (as of mid September) for Fall 2003 Date Speaker Topic (brief) Time/Place Tuesday, September 16th David Hand Department of Mathematics Imperial College Pattern Discovery in Data Mining department-wide seminar 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 4-120 note day, time, room Thursday, September 25th Eric van Heck Decision and Information Sciences Rotterdam School of Management Markets of the Future: Research and Practice of Multidimensional Auctions abstract - paper - related book   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, October 2nd Edward Castronova Department of Economics California State University A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World abstract - paper - related Slate article   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, October 9th Nitin Patel MIT and Cytel Software Clustering in the Presence of Errors abstract - paper - related paper department-wide seminar 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, October 16th Duncan Watts Department of Sociology Columbia University Information Exchange and Robustness of Organizational Networks abstract - paper   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, November 13th Bing Jing New York University Non-Convex Production Technology and Price Discrimination abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Friday, December 5th Avi Giloni Yeshiva University L1 Regression: Robustness, Estimation, and Applications department-wide seminar 11:30am-12:50pm KMC 5-80