5th Annual IMBS Graduate Conference - UC IRVINE

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS

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Opening Remarks: Donald G. Saari

• 9:30 Brendan Purdy
• "A Context-Free Language for Multinomial Processing Tree Models"

• 10:00 Matthew Zeigenfuse
• "A Bayesian Method for Learning Combined Similarity-Based Representations"

• 10:30 Sam Thorpe
• "Characterizing the Frequency Dependence of the Basic Visual Pathway"

Break (11:00-11:30)

• 11:30 Ivy (Lingfang) Li
• "What is the Cost of Speaking Out? Evidence from Ebay"

• 12:00 Iris Franz
• "Grade Inflation Under the Threat of Students' Nuisance"

Lunch (12:30-1:30)

• 1:30 James Bono
• "Co-dependent Organizational Levels (Coral) Games and the Core of Cores"

• 2:00 Rory Smead
• "Signaling and Indirect Reciprocity"

Break (2:30-2:45)

• 2:45 Amer Aladhadh
• "Dynamic Considerations in Financial Modeling"

• 3:15 Jay Simon
• "Decision Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems"

Break (3:45-4:00)

• 4:00 Siyi Deng
• "A Solution for Congressional Apportionment"

• 4:30 Dan Cavagnaro
• "The Projection of a Medium"

Closing Remarks: Louis Narens