Two market design conferences to be held at Cornell next week: Here's the program for the first one.
June 18, 2018
8:00-8:30 am Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:45 am
Workshop Opening
Martin Bichler, Bob Day
8:45-9:30 am Talk (Chair: Martin Bichler)Solving Large Incomplete-Information Extensive-Form Games, and Beating the Top Human Professionals at Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
9:30-9:45 am Coffee Break
9:45-11:15 am Session (Chair: Bob Day)
Optimization and Pricing in Non-Convex Markets
Allocation Under Stochastic Demand: A Primal-Dual Approach
Sasa Pekec, Duke University
Competitive Equilibria in Combinatorial Exchanges with Financially Constrained Buyers
Stefan Waldherr, Technical University of Munich (with Martin Bichler)
Linear Prices in Combinatorial Auctions
Bob Day, University of Connecticut
11:15-11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 pm Session (Chair: Ben Lubin)
Iterative Combinatorial AuctionsAn Efficient Ascending Auction for Private Valuations
Oleg Baranov, University of Colorado
Adaptive-Price Combinatorial Auctions
Sebastien Lahaie, Google (with Ben Lubin, Boston University)
Machine Learning-Based Combinatorial Auctions
Ben Lubin, Boston University (with Sven Seuken and Gianluca Brero, Zurich University)
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 pm Session (Chair: Itai Ashlagi)
Matching with Constraints and Complex Preferences
Hidden Substitutes
Scott Kominers, Harvard Business School
Clearing Matching Markets Efficiently: Informative Signals and Match Recommendations
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
3:00-3:10 pm Break
3:10-4:30 pm Panel DiscussionBeyond Strategyproofness
Panel Chair: Martin Bichler, Technical Univ. of Munich
Panelists: Eric Budish, Univ. of Chicago; Peter Cramton, Cologne Univ.; Michal Feldman, Tel-Aviv Univ.
4:30-4:40 pm Coffee Break
4:40-5:30 pm Talk (Chair: Ben Lubin)
Markets for Road Use: Eliminating Congestion through Scheduling, Routing, and Real-time Road Pricing,
Peter Cramton, Cologne University (with R. Richard Geddes and Axel Ockenfels)
6 pm Joint Reception with ACM EC at the Gates Hall
June 19, 2018
9:00-10:30 am ACM EC Opening Session and Keynote
10:30-12:00 noon Session (Chair: Thayer Morrill)
Market Models and Applications
Quantity Contingent Auctions and Allocation of Airport Slots
Michael Ball, University of Maryland
Prophet Inequalities Made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Non-Stochastic Inputs
Michal Feldman, Tel-Aviv University
Family Ties: Incorporating Siblings into School Choice
Thayer Morrill, NCSU
12:00-12:10 pm Break
12:10-12:55 pm Talk (Chair: Thayer Morrill)Market Design and the FCC Incentive Auction
Larry Ausubel, University of Maryland (with Christina Aperjis and Oleg Baranov)
INFORMS Workshop Mathematical Optimization
and Market Design 2018
June 18, 2018
8:00-8:30 am Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:45 am
Workshop Opening
Martin Bichler, Bob Day
8:45-9:30 am Talk (Chair: Martin Bichler)Solving Large Incomplete-Information Extensive-Form Games, and Beating the Top Human Professionals at Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
9:30-9:45 am Coffee Break
9:45-11:15 am Session (Chair: Bob Day)
Optimization and Pricing in Non-Convex Markets
Allocation Under Stochastic Demand: A Primal-Dual Approach
Sasa Pekec, Duke University
Competitive Equilibria in Combinatorial Exchanges with Financially Constrained Buyers
Stefan Waldherr, Technical University of Munich (with Martin Bichler)
Linear Prices in Combinatorial Auctions
Bob Day, University of Connecticut
11:15-11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 pm Session (Chair: Ben Lubin)
Iterative Combinatorial AuctionsAn Efficient Ascending Auction for Private Valuations
Oleg Baranov, University of Colorado
Adaptive-Price Combinatorial Auctions
Sebastien Lahaie, Google (with Ben Lubin, Boston University)
Machine Learning-Based Combinatorial Auctions
Ben Lubin, Boston University (with Sven Seuken and Gianluca Brero, Zurich University)
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 pm Session (Chair: Itai Ashlagi)
Matching with Constraints and Complex Preferences
Hidden Substitutes
Scott Kominers, Harvard Business School
Clearing Matching Markets Efficiently: Informative Signals and Match Recommendations
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
3:00-3:10 pm Break
3:10-4:30 pm Panel DiscussionBeyond Strategyproofness
Panel Chair: Martin Bichler, Technical Univ. of Munich
Panelists: Eric Budish, Univ. of Chicago; Peter Cramton, Cologne Univ.; Michal Feldman, Tel-Aviv Univ.
4:30-4:40 pm Coffee Break
4:40-5:30 pm Talk (Chair: Ben Lubin)
Markets for Road Use: Eliminating Congestion through Scheduling, Routing, and Real-time Road Pricing,
Peter Cramton, Cologne University (with R. Richard Geddes and Axel Ockenfels)
6 pm Joint Reception with ACM EC at the Gates Hall
June 19, 2018
9:00-10:30 am ACM EC Opening Session and Keynote
10:30-12:00 noon Session (Chair: Thayer Morrill)
Market Models and Applications
Quantity Contingent Auctions and Allocation of Airport Slots
Michael Ball, University of Maryland
Prophet Inequalities Made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Non-Stochastic Inputs
Michal Feldman, Tel-Aviv University
Family Ties: Incorporating Siblings into School Choice
Thayer Morrill, NCSU
12:00-12:10 pm Break
12:10-12:55 pm Talk (Chair: Thayer Morrill)Market Design and the FCC Incentive Auction
Larry Ausubel, University of Maryland (with Christina Aperjis and Oleg Baranov)