<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>When:         </b>November 7th <b>at <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11am CT  </span></b></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"> <br><b>Where:</b><b>  </b>      Talk will be given<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font></span>at</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       <span>TTIC</span>, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                        5th Floor, Room 530<b>              </b>   </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>Virtually:</b>    via Panopto (<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=85a83cfb-1a30-412e-871b-b31a00f2af9b" target="_blank">Livestream</a>) </font></p><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> <br><b>Who:</b>           Siddharth Prasad, <span>TTIC</span><br><br><b>Title:</b>            Integer Programming and Combinatorial Markets</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Abstract:</b>   Various marketplaces in the world today, from spectrum allocation to strategic sourcing and procurement to financial exchanges, benefit from carefully designed rules to govern the efficient exchange of items. Mechanism design offers a principled way to design these rules and, on the computational front, integer programming is a go-to method for finding desirable market outcomes and prices. In this talk, I will present some of my work at the convergence of these topics.<br><br>In the first part of the talk, I will present a new type of cutting plane for 0-1 integer programs that delivers strong theoretical and practical properties. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss a new pricing structure for core-selecting combinatorial auctions that directly improves the auction designs that have been used in high-stakes spectrum auctions.</font><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><b><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">*********************************************************************************************</font></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px"><b><i><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span>Research</span> at <span>TTIC</span> Seminar Series</font></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"> </font></p><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span>TTIC</span> is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the <span>research</span> currently underway at the Institute. Every week a different <span>TTIC</span> faculty member will present their <span>research</span>.  The lectures are intended for students seeking <span>research</span> topics and advisors, and for the general <span>TTIC</span> and University of Chicago communities interested in hearing what their colleagues are up to.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Outreach Administrator </i></b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div><div><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">OOO: November 24th - December 7th</b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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