<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">When:</span><b style="font-size:12.8px"> </b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Monday, September 11th at 11:00 a.m.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">Who: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jason Hartline, Northwestern University</font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Title: Peer Grading and Mechanism Design</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The first part of the talk will overview a peer grading system that is under development at Northwestern U. In courses that use the system it has (a) reduced the grading load of course staff by over 75%, (b) expanded and improved the students’ interaction with the course material, (c) and improved turn-around time of feedback on student work (students receive comments on their work after three days, rather than two weeks). As a research platform, this system enables a dialogue between theory and practice for algorithms, machine learning, and mechanism design.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Of particular focus for the talk is a connection between incentivizing students to give accurate peer reviews and all-pay position auctions. All-pay auctions are a common model for competitions based on effort. In an all-pay position auction, bidders compete for positions, where higher positions are more valuable, and all bidders pay their bids (i.e., their effort is spent). The equilibrium outcome of an all-pay auction depends on the relative values of the positions. The second part of the talk will describe recent work on reoptimizing all-pay position auctions from their equilibrium bid data.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The second part of the talk is joint work with Shuchi Chawla and Denis Nekipelov.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Host: <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For more information on the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-m_-2107840608322175099gmail-m_-3582133627717491502gmail-m_2273938991479921249gmail-m_1203820965003856359gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-2107840608322175099gmail-m_-3582133627717491502gmail-il">colloquium</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.ttic.edu/colloq<wbr>uium.php</a></font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">When:</span><b style="font-size:12.8px"> </b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Monday, September 11th at 11:00 a.m.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">Who: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jason Hartline, Northwestern University</font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Title: Peer Grading and Mechanism Design</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The first part of the talk will overview a peer grading system that is under development at Northwestern U. In courses that use the system it has (a) reduced the grading load of course staff by over 75%, (b) expanded and improved the students’ interaction with the course material, (c) and improved turn-around time of feedback on student work (students receive comments on their work after three days, rather than two weeks). As a research platform, this system enables a dialogue between theory and practice for algorithms, machine learning, and mechanism design.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Of particular focus for the talk is a connection between incentivizing students to give accurate peer reviews and all-pay position auctions. All-pay auctions are a common model for competitions based on effort. In an all-pay position auction, bidders compete for positions, where higher positions are more valuable, and all bidders pay their bids (i.e., their effort is spent). The equilibrium outcome of an all-pay auction depends on the relative values of the positions. The second part of the talk will describe recent work on reoptimizing all-pay position auctions from their equilibrium bid data.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The second part of the talk is joint work with Shuchi Chawla and Denis Nekipelov.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Host: <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For more information on the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-2107840608322175099gmail-m_-3582133627717491502gmail-m_2273938991479921249gmail-m_1203820965003856359gmail-il"><span class="m_-2107840608322175099gmail-m_-3582133627717491502gmail-il">colloquium</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloq<wbr>uium.php</a></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2107840608322175099gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:<a href="tel:(773)%20834-1757" value="+17738341757" target="_blank">(773) 834-1757</a></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: <a href="tel:(773)%20357-6970" value="+17733576970" target="_blank">(773) 357-6970</a></font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">When:</span><b style="font-size:12.8px"> </b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Monday, September 11th at 11:00 a.m.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Where: TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">Who: </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Jason Hartline, Northwestern University</font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Title: Peer Grading and Mechanism Design</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The first part of the talk will overview a peer grading system that is under development at Northwestern U. In courses that use the system it has (a) reduced the grading load of course staff by over 75%, (b) expanded and improved the students’ interaction with the course material, (c) and improved turn-around time of feedback on student work (students receive comments on their work after three days, rather than two weeks). As a research platform, this system enables a dialogue between theory and practice for algorithms, machine learning, and mechanism design.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Of particular focus for the talk is a connection between incentivizing students to give accurate peer reviews and all-pay position auctions. All-pay auctions are a common model for competitions based on effort. In an all-pay position auction, bidders compete for positions, where higher positions are more valuable, and all bidders pay their bids (i.e., their effort is spent). The equilibrium outcome of an all-pay auction depends on the relative values of the positions. The second part of the talk will describe recent work on reoptimizing all-pay position auctions from their equilibrium bid data.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The second part of the talk is joint work with Shuchi Chawla and Denis Nekipelov.</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Host: <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Avrim Blum</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">For more information on the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-2107840608322175099m_-3582133627717491502gmail-m_2273938991479921249gmail-m_1203820965003856359gmail-il"><span class="m_-2107840608322175099m_-3582133627717491502gmail-il">colloquium</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see </span><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloq<wbr>uium.php</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br clear="all"></span><div><div class="m_-2107840608322175099m_-3582133627717491502gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:<a href="tel:(773)%20834-1757" value="+17738341757" target="_blank">(773) 834-1757</a></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: <a href="tel:(773)%20357-6970" value="+17733576970" target="_blank">(773) 357-6970</a></font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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