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Economics and Computation Reunion
Workshops
Fall 2015
Economics and Computation Reunion
Apr. 27
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Apr. 28, 2017
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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract and slides (if applicable).
All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
9:00 am
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9:20 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am
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9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
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10:00 am
Facilitating the Search for Partners on Matching Platforms: Restricting Agent Actions
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
10:00 am
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10:30 am
Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators
Evdokia Nikolova, University of Texas at Austin
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
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11:30 am
On the Topology of Learning in Games: Convergence, Periodicity, Limit Cycles and Chaos
Georgios Piliouras, Singapore University of Technology and Design
11:30 am
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12:00 pm
Online Auctions and Multi-scale Online Learning
Nikhil R. Devanur, Microsoft Research
12:00 pm
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12:30 pm
Learning in Games: Robustness of Fast Convergence
Éva Tardos, Cornell University
12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
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2:30 pm
Robustly Optimal Auctions with Unknown Resale Opportunities
Gabriel Carroll, Stanford University
2:30 pm
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3:00 pm
Algorithms for Persuasion
Shaddin Dughmi, University of Southern California
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
On the Instability of Bitcoin without the Block Reward
Matt Weinberg, Princeton University
3:30 pm
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4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Panel
5:00 pm
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6:00 pm
Reception
Friday, April 28th, 2017
9:00 am
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9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am
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10:00 am
Optimal Auctions through Deep Learning
David Parkes, Harvard University
10:00 am
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10:30 am
Nash Social Welfare Approximation for Strategic Agents
Ruta Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30 am
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11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
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11:30 am
A Duality Based Framework for Designing Simple Mechanisms
Yang Cai, McGill University
11:30 am
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12:00 pm
Prophet Inequalities Made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Non-Stochastic Inputs
Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
12:00 pm
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12:30 pm
Learning Multi-item Auctions with (or without) Samples
Costis Daskalakis, MIT
12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
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2:30 pm
Stability of Service Under Time-of-Use Pricing
Anna Karlin, University of Washington
2:30 pm
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3:00 pm
Deferred-Acceptance Auctions for Multiple Levels of Service
Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Learn to Play the Myerson Auction
Xiaotie Deng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3:30 pm
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4:00 pm
Break
4:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Learning Mixtures of Plackett-Luce Models
Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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