The Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference
Social Choice and Behavioral Sciences
May 26, 2006

Sponsored by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

Social Science Plaza A, room 2112

Session 1: Chair- Amjad Toukan

9:00 – 9:30 James Bono, Department of Economics -- “The Core of Cores”

9:30 – 10:00 Hoa Jia, Department of Economics -- “On Group Self-Governance”

10:00 – 10:30 Hyeok Ki Min, Department of Economics -- “Contest for Trade Policy”


Fifteen minute coffee break

Session 2: Chair- Jason Kronewetter

10:45 – 11:15 Dan Cavagnaro, Mathematical Behavioral Sciences -- “A Random Walk Model for the Evolution of Preferences”

11:15 – 11:45 Ivy Li, Department of Economics --“Dynamic Game among Traders in Online Commerce Market”

11:45 – 12:15 Amy Escobar, Mathematical Behavioral Sciences -- “Modeling face processing: Eigenfaces, a fragment-based approach and a new dimension”

 
Lunch

 

Session 3: Chair- Anna Bargagliotti

1:30 – 2:00 Nathan Fiala, Department of Economics -- “Economic and Environment Impact of Meat Consumption”

2:00 – 2:30 Jay Simon, Operations and Decision Technologies Paul Merage School of Business -- “Prostate Cancer Decision Analyst: Choosing the Best Treatment”

2:30 – 3:00 Vimal Kumar, Department of Economics -- “Product Cycle, Growth and Wage Inequality in a Closed Economy”


fifteen minute coffee break

Session 4: Chair- Garrett Assay

3:15 – 3:45 Brendan Purdy, Mathematical Behavioral Sciences -- “Measuring the Sensory Order”

3:45 – 4:15 John Pyles, Department of Cognitive Sciences -- “Brain activity evoked by perception of novel ‘biological motion'”

4:15 – 4:45 Ling Lin, Department of Cognitive Sciences -- “Visual Sensory Memory: The Contrast of Visual Gratings”