Date: June 11, 2015
Room: G882, Hewlett Room
Time: 12:30pm start
Title: Novel Frameworks for Auctions and Optimization.
Abstract: This thesis introduces novel frameworks for modeling uncertainty in auctions, and for understanding first-order methods in optimization. The former provides robust analysis to alternative specifications of preferences and information structures in Vickrey auctions, and the latter enables us to break 20-year barriers on the running time used for solving positive linear programs.