Coordination games with diverse sources of information
10:00-11:30
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-31
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Venue: Room 418, School of Economics, Yuquan CampusSpeaker: Wolfgang Kuhle, senior research fellow, Max Planck SocietyAbstract:We study Bayesian coordination games where agents rely on diverse types of information: first, information over the game’s payoff coefficients. Second, information over the other players’ information. Third, information over the other players’ actions. For these different types of information, we characterize the equilibria that agents play. In particular, we study the information structures that ensure unique, respectively, multiple equilibria. Our results show that the traditional findings of the global games literature, Rubinstein (1989), Carlsson and van Damme (1993) and Morris and Shin (1998), which considers only information over payoffs, change substantially once agents can draw on diverse sources of information. In particular, the key global games result, namely that agents play unique equilibria when private information is very precise, reverses once agents draw on information over other players’actions.
Wolfgang Kuhle, senior research fellow, Max Planck Society
Wolfgang Kuhle
2018-11-06 14:15:46
Yuquan Campus
What is it like to be a Cyborg?
14:30-15:30
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-30
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Venue: Room 101, No.9 Teaching Building, Yuquan Campus
Prof. Kevin Warwick is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.
Kevin Warwick
2018-11-05 11:57:28
Yuquan Campus
Conversations on international leisure issues and trends
13:30
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-29
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Venue: Room 520, Tin Ka Ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Cristina Ortega Nuere, Chief Academic and Operating Officer, World Leisure Organization
Cristina Ortega Nuere, Chief Academic and Operating Officer, World Leisure Organization
Cristina Ortega Nuere
2018-11-02 09:35:18
Xixi Campus
Discovery and study of natural and synthetic RNA-biosensors
10:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-28
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Venue: Room 457, Nano Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Jonathan Perreault, faculty member of Institute Armand-Frappier Research Centre, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jonathan Perreault, faculty member of Institute Armand-Frappier Research Centre, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jonathan Perreault
2018-11-02 16:36:20
Nano Building
Neural foundations of social norm compliance
10:30-11:30
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2018-10-26
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Venue: Room 1004, Library & Information Center Building C, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Christian Ruff is the Chair Professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience at the University of Zurich. After undergraduate training in Freiburg/Germany and Vancouver/Canada, he completed his PhD and postdoc at University College London. His research investigates the brain mechanisms of decision making with a multi-methods approach that combines behavioral experiments and computational modelling with neuroimaging and brain stimulation. His work has been published in journals such as Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Neuroscience. His Google Citations is more than 6000, with a h-index of 41. Abstract:Social norms like honesty and fairness play a key role in social and economic life. Without such norms, promises are not kept, contracts are not enforced, and taxes remain unpaid. Despite this importance, it is largely unknown which personal and situational factors determine our ability to comply with social norms. Here I present brain stimulation studies identifying brain processes that are biological prerequisites for social norm compliance. These studies show that the human brain contains at least two mechanisms that are necessary for fair and honest behavior. These mechanisms either enhance the sensitivity to social incentives for norm-consistent behavior or they increase the weight of moral motives associated with norm-compliant actions. The properties of these brain mechanisms have interesting implications for the possibilities and limits of interventions designed to enhance norm-compliant behavior.
Christian Ruff, Chair Professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience, University of Zurich
Christian Ruff
2018-11-01 15:34:49
Zijingang Campus
Observations on the digital revolution, financial innovation and fintech
09:00-11:30
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-26
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Venue: Qizhen Hall, Qizhen Hotel, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Rober C. Merton, Distinguished Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School & Nobel Laureate – Economics 1997Abstract:Digitalization of financial services, “FinTech”, offers enormous global opportunities for new and improved services and substantially lower costs, with disproportional improvements accruing to those who are underserved by current standards. Successful realization of these opportunities faces material challenges and there will definitely be financial service industry “winners” and “losers” from its successful implementation. FinTech innovations will create disruptive challenges for users, providers, advisors and regulators of financial services but also create potentially significant opportunities for them as well.Will today’s technology disruptions to current practice of existing financial-service providers lead to their displacement or will it create enhanced opportunities for them?
Rober C. Merton, Distinguished Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School & Nobel Laureate – Economics 1997
Robert C. Merton
2018-10-31 14:45:25
Qizhen Hotel
Qualitative versus quantitative game analysis
14:00-15:30
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-26
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Venue: Room 401, Tin Ka Ping Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Chair of Training Science and Sport Informatics, Technische Universität München
Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Chair of Training Science and Sport Informatics, Technische Universität München
Martin Lames
2018-10-30 15:25:17
Xixi Campus
Best practices in research, writing and publishing
16:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-26
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Venue: Room 457, Nano Building, Zijingang CampusSpeaker: Wolfgang PetiHomer C. and Emily Davis Weed Endowed Professor, University of Arizona ADA Pathway FellowAssociate Editor, Journal of Biological ChemistryResearch interest:The focus of the Peti laboratory is to understand the molecular:basis of essential biological processes. Signaling cascades direct information transmission and, in turn, function in processes as diverse as memory and muscle movement. These cascades are mediated by a network of highly specific and tightly regulated protein:protein interactions, including those made by serine/threonine kinases and serine/threonine phosphatases.His long-term goal is to achieve an in-depth understanding of signaling networks with a special focus on serine/threonine phosphatase signaling, by using chemical, biochemical, biophysical, structural biology, especially NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, and in vivo technologies.
Wolfgang Peti, Homer C. and Emily Davis Weed Endowed Professor, University of Arizona ADA Pathway Fellow and Associate Editor, Journal of Biological Chemistry
Wolfgang Peti
2018-10-29 16:01:02
Nano Building
Theoretical versus practical performance analysis
13:15-14:00
Talk & Lecture
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2018-10-26
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Venue: Room 222, No. 2 West Teaching Building, Xixi CampusSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Chair of Training Science and Sport Informatics, Technische Universität München
Prof. Dr. Martin Lames, Chair of Training Science and Sport Informatics, Technische Universität München
Martin Lames
2018-10-29 15:25:17
Xixi Campus