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Note: all Session talks are 35 minutes long, with 5 minutes for discussion between talks.
Thursday, Nov. 3rd, 2011
| 10:00am | Attendee Check-in Starts |
| 10:45am | Opening Remarks |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Keynote 1 Susan Athey (Harvard University / Microsoft Research) Designing Online Auction-Based Marketplaces Introduced by Federico Echenique |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30pm | Session 1 (Chair: Steven Low) Federico Echenique (Caltech) Finding a Walrasian Equilibrium is Easy for a Fixed Number of Agents (joint paper with Adam Wierman) Yilmaz Kocer (USC) Endogenous Learning with Bounded Memory William Zame (UCLA) Designing Exchange for Online Communities |
| 3:30-4:45pm | Break / Poster Session |
| 4:45-6:00pm | Session 2 (Chair: Katrina Ligett) Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia) Transactional Social Networks (abstract) M. van der Schaar (UCLA) Designing Social-Computational Systems Using Social Norms |
Friday, Nov. 4th, 2011
| 8:30am | Attendee Check-in Starts |
| 9:00-11:00am | Session 3 (Chair: Adam Wierman) Shaddin Dughmi (MSR) Computationally-Efficient Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions Katrina Ligett Beyond Myopic Best Response (in Cournot Competition) Jennifer Wortman Vaughan (UCLA) Aggregating Predictions Via Markets |
| 11:00-11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am-12:30pm | Keynote 2 Rakesh Vohra (Kellogg School of Management) Price Discrimination Through Communication (abstract) Introduced by John Ledyard |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30pm | Session 4 (Chair: Rahul Jain) Matt Elliott (MSR) Group Cooperation in Public Goods Networks (joint work with Ben Golub) David Miller Ostracism (joint work with S. Nageeb Ali) Giorgio Coricelli (USC) Equilibrium Selection Among Multiple Equilibria: Insights from the Brain (joint work with Andrea Brovelli, Frank Heinemann, and Rosemarie Nagel) (abstract) |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00-6:00pm | Session 5 (Chair: Mihaela van der Schaar) Sachin Adlakha (Caltech) The Price of Uncertainty in Electricity Markets Rahul Jain (USC) Queues and Games Jason Marden (CU Boulder) Achieving Pareto Optimality Through Distributed Learning (joint work with H. Peyton Young and Lucy Y. Pao) (abstract) |
| 6:30pm | Dinner at the Rathskeller (the bar in the basement of the Athenaeum at Caltech). All registered attendees welcome! |