Seminars that lead somewhere.
Peerhall runs a department's visiting-speaker programme. The seminar organiser loads the year once. Members see who is coming and whose work meets theirs. Every speaker gets a day that is ready when they land.
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School of Business and EconomicsDepartment of Finance, since September 2026Three things, every visit.
A seminar programme is admin for the department, a first impression for the speaker, and a chance for members to meet the right person. Peerhall is built around all three.
Internal efficiency
Load the year once. Invitations, reminders and logistics run on rules you set.
- The whole year from one spreadsheet
- Emails go out on rules, to the right people
- The head of department hears early when a visit runs thin
External professionalism
Every speaker gets one link with their whole visit on it, kept up to date.
- Arrival, hotel, pick-up and dinner in one place
- Directions to every place on the day
- Phone or laptop, no account to create
Better collaboration
Members and speakers see where their work meets, before they ever shake hands.
- Every visitor, and how well they match you
- Past work and shared topics, on both sides
- One click to profiles, papers and websites
Time back, and a better-connected department.
Two things a seminar programme should return: the hours it costs to run, and the conversations it starts.
Our estimate, for a department hosting 40 visiting speakers a year, over some 30 weeks of term. Time saved on the internal colloquium and PhD sessions comes on top and is not counted here.
Our estimate: 40 visiting speakers with nine one-to-one slots each. Each dot is one meeting.
Why those meetings matter
90 minJoint grantmore likely to apply for a grant together, after two researchers met in one 90-minute structured session
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017more likely to be cited within four years, for a paper presented at a conference
Journal of Human Resources, 2020 0papers never written when a hurricane cancelled one major conference, APSA 2012
The Economic Journal, 2018Set it once. It runs all term.
The seminar organiser loads the year from one spreadsheet. From then on the rules do the sending, and people only step in when something needs a person.
One visit, on autopilot
Every email is a rule: switch it on or off, choose who gets it, and change when it goes. This is one visit from announcement to ratings, with nobody writing an email by hand.
Automation
Everyone sees their part
Four roles, one programme. Each person gets the view and the tools for their own job, and nobody has to ask anybody for a status update.
Managers
The whole programme without the busywork. What used to take a spreadsheet, three inboxes and a shared calendar, each done in a few clicks.
The whole year from one spreadsheet
Upload the year's visitors, check every row in a preview, import. Members load the same way.
Elena Marsh✓
Ada Okonkwo✓
Nils Halvorsen✓
Sofia Costa✓
Erik Larsson✓
Piotr Kowalski✓Drag the day into shape
A day template becomes every visit's schedule. Drag a slot to move it. Keep a second template for two-day visits.
Who hears what, and when
Each email has its own audience and timing.
Change one visit
Add a slot, move a room, change the dinner venue for this speaker only.
The itinerary, in your words
Write the welcome every speaker receives with their schedule.
Next year's speakers, proposed
Senior staff propose speakers in an annual round and claim an open seminar day.
Prof. Ji-woo Park on 7 NovProposed by Marcus LinEvery registration, live
See how each visit is filling, who booked what, and which one needs a push.
Elena Marsh26 Oct8 of 9Ada Okonkwo2 Nov4 of 9Nils Halvorsen9 Nov2 of 9Sofia Costa16 Novopens 19 OctStaff members, secretariat and head of department
The same programme from three other chairs.
Dana Kessler8 of 9Marcus Lin7 of 9Omar Reyes7 of 9Tom Bakker4 of 9Ana Petrova4 of 9Dr. Sofia Costa★★★★½4.50 · 4.00Prof. Erik Larsson★★★★½4.50 · 4.67
Dr. Anjali Mehta★★★★½4.50 · 4.00Prof. Piotr Kowalski★★★★4.00 · 4.67The speaker's whole visit, on one link.
A visiting professor judges a department by the day it gives them. Peerhall sends one personal link that holds the whole trip, on their phone or their laptop, and keeps it current when plans change.
Your schedule, Mon 26 Oct
Dear Dr. Marsh,
Thank you for agreeing to visit us. Your schedule is ready: where you stay, who picks you up, and who you will meet.
View your full schedule →It updates by itself if anything changes, and works on your phone on the day.
Your schedule, Mon 26 Oct
Dear Dr. Marsh,
Thank you for agreeing to visit us. Your schedule is ready: where you stay, who picks you up, and who you will meet.
View your full schedule →It updates by itself if anything changes, and works on your phone on the day.
The right people, already prepared.
This is where a seminar programme turns into social capital. Members find the speakers whose work meets theirs, and speakers arrive knowing who they will meet and why.
The whole year's speakers, and who fits you.
Every visitor on one page: their field, their date, and how much of their work meets yours. One switch shows only the matches.
An email that says why this speaker is for you.
When a speaker's papers share topics with yours, Peerhall can write to you personally: who is coming, which of their papers meet your work, and that a slot is still open.
- Only to members whose work overlaps
- Names the papers and the shared topics
- Skips anyone who already booked
Hi Omar,
We spotted a visitor you may have a strong connection with. Dr. Elena Marsh visits on Monday 26 October. Her seminar is about nudges and labour supply, but most of her earlier work sits right in your area.
Dr. Elena MarshWestmere School of Economics3 of 4papers share your topicsTwo one-to-one slots are still open.
See exactly where your work meets theirs.
The talk is one paper. Peerhall shows the seminar paper first, then the speaker's earlier work, each lined up against yours with the shared topics lit up. Every paper is one click away, and so are their website and CV.
And the speaker knows you too.
On the speaker's own page, every person they meet comes with their field, how much their work overlaps, and links to their faculty page, LinkedIn, SSRN or website. The meeting starts at the second question, not the first.
Not only visiting speakers.
The internal colloquium and PhD training run in the same place as the visiting seminars, with the same rules, the same calendar feed and the same record.
Internal colloquium
Open a term of dates in one go. Colleagues and PhD students ask for a date, the organiser confirms, and the department is told.
Room 1.12 · 16:00
Ana Petrova · Tom Bakker
“Volatility after the fact”
PhD training
Sessions, registration and attendance in one list. When a candidate is absent, their supervisor is told automatically.
Ana PetrovaUnmarkedTom BakkerUnmarkedPriya NathanUnmarkedWatch a visit come together.
Half an hour on a demo department. We set up a speaker's day in front of you and show what your members, your secretariat and your speaker would see.
- Onboarding included: members, day templates, email rules and this year's visitor schedule set up for you
- The yearly launch done for you every September
- Up to 120 members, unlimited visits, support within two working days
- Each department its own portal, in its own colours
- One data protection agreement and one onboarding for all five
- A named contact and a yearly review
Prices exclude VAT. Early bird: onboarding (normally €4,000) is included for our first departments.