Admission is free .
Seating is limited. Robert B. Wilson Robert Wilson holds the McBean chair of Economics at the Stanford Business School , where he has been on the faculty since 1964. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a principal at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. Wilson has been a major contributor to auction designs and competitive bidding strategies in the oil, communication, and power industries, and to the design of innovative pricing schemes.