Workshops

Fall 2015

Economics and Computation Reunion

Apr. 27 – 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 – 9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am – 9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am – 10:00 am		Facilitating the Search for Partners on Matching Platforms: Restricting Agent Actions Daniela Saban, Stanford University
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators Evdokia Nikolova, University of Texas at Austin
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 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 – 12:00 pm		Online Auctions and Multi-scale Online Learning Nikhil R. Devanur, Microsoft Research
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm		Learning in Games: Robustness of Fast Convergence Éva Tardos, Cornell University
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		Robustly Optimal Auctions with Unknown Resale Opportunities Gabriel Carroll, Stanford University
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Algorithms for Persuasion Shaddin Dughmi, University of Southern California
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		On the Instability of Bitcoin without the Block Reward Matt Weinberg, Princeton University
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm		Panel
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm		Reception

Friday, April 28th, 2017
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:00 am		Optimal Auctions through Deep Learning David Parkes, Harvard University
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Nash Social Welfare Approximation for Strategic Agents Ruta Mehta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		A Duality Based Framework for Designing Simple Mechanisms Yang Cai, McGill University
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Prophet Inequalities Made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Non-Stochastic Inputs Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm		Learning Multi-item Auctions with (or without) Samples Costis Daskalakis, MIT
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		Stability of Service Under Time-of-Use Pricing Anna Karlin, University of Washington
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm		Deferred-Acceptance Auctions for Multiple Levels of Service Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm		Learn to Play the Myerson Auction Xiaotie Deng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm		Break
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm		Learning Mixtures of Plackett-Luce Models Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute