Algorithmic Game Theory and Practice Nov. 16 – Nov. 20, 2015 at the Simons Institute

At Berkeley's Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Algorithmic Game Theory and Practice

Nov. 16 – Nov. 20, 2015

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• Talks will also be streamed live on this page during the workshop.

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, November 16th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:20 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:20 am – 9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am – 10:10 am		Kidney Exchange: Algorithms and Incentives Alvin Roth, Stanford University
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Designing Online Advertising Markets Susan Athey, Stanford University
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Chiara Farronato, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		Business Model Analysis Kamal Jain, Faira.com
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm		The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets Steve Tadelis, UC Berkeley
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm		Dynamic Labor Supply in the Sharing Economy Chris Nosko, University of Chicago
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		Adverse Selection and Auction Design for Internet Display Advertising Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Machine Learning in an Exchange Environment R. Preston McAfee, Microsoft
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		From Theory to Practice in Auction Modeling Hal Varian, Google, Inc.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		Online Advertisements and Online Algorithms Nikhil Devanur, Microsoft Research
2:10 pm – 2:40 pm		Break
2:40 pm – 4:00 pm		TBD Joaquin Candela, Facebook and Chinmay Karande, Facebook

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		On-Line Systems with Long-Range Goals Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Decision Making at Scale: Platforms and Problems Ashish Goel, Stanford University
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Strong Truthfulness in Multi-signal Peer Prediction with Overlapping Tasks David Parkes, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		The State of Techniques for Solving Large Imperfect-Information Games Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm		Security Games:Key Algorithmic Principles, Deployed Applications and Research Challenges(*) Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm		Robust inference for games via theoretical guarantees Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		An Evolutionary Model of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence Andrew Lo, MIT
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		The Design of Financial Exchanges: Some Open Questions at the Intersection of Econ and CS Eric Budish, University of Chicago
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Algorithmic Trading and Machine Learning Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Repacking Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm		Informational Substitues and Complements for Prediction Yiling Chen, Harvard University
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm		Open Directions Session

Friday, November 20th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		TBD Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Bitcoin's Incentive structure Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		TBD Ramesh Johari, Stanford University