Organizing Committee

• Rahul Jain
• John Ledyard
• Katrina Ligett
• Ashutosh Nayyar
• Ichiro Obara
• Mihaela van der Schaar
• Adam Wierman
• Simon Wilkie
• William Zame

Sponsorship

• UCLA Dept. of Economics
• UCLA Dept. of Electrical Engineering
• USC Dept. of Economics
• USC Ming Hsieh Institute
• Caltech IST
• Caltech Linde Institute

Program

All talks will take place in room 105 of the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology. Lunches, breaks and other activities will take place in locations noted below.

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014

9:30am	Continental Breakfast / Attendee Check-in Begins (Annenberg Lobby)
10:00-11:00am	Keynote 1 Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Approximately Optimal Mechanism Design: Motivation, Examples, and Lessons Learned [slides]
11:00-11:20am	Break (Annenberg Lobby)
11:20am-12:30pm	Lightning talks 12 student talks (5min each) Parisa Mansourifard, USC Negin Golrezaei, USC Haifeng Xu, USC Euncheol Shin, Caltech Gerelt Tserenjigmid, Caltech Desmond Cai, Caltech Simpson Zhang, UCLA Kartik Ahuja, UCLA Ahmed Alaa, UCLA Holly Borowski, USC
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch (Moore Lab: North Courtyard and Walkway)
2:00-3:30pm	Session 1 Marina Agranov, Caltech Collusion through Communication in Auctions (joint paper with Leeat Yariv, Caltech) [slides] William Zame, UCLA Endogenous Matching: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard (joint paper with M. van der Schaar and Y. Xiao, UCLA) [slides] Nageeb Ali, UCSD Collective Search with Private Information (joint paper with Aislinn Bohren) [slides]
3:30-4:00pm	Break (Annenberg Lobby)
4:00-5:00pm	Session 2 Marek Pycia, UCLA Efficient Bilateral Trade [slides] John Ledyard, Caltech Integrating markets with control on electricity networks [slides]
5:00-7:00pm	Poster session & drinks (Moore Lab: North Courtyard)

Friday, Nov. 21, 2014

9:30am	Continental Breakfast / Attendee Check-in Begins (Annenberg Lobby)
10:00-11:00am	Keynote 2 Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research Testing Models of Social Learning in the Field [slides]
11:00-11:30am	Break (Annenberg Lobby)
11:30am-12:30pm	Session 3 Yilmaz Kocer, USC Dynamic Matching with Learning [slides] Siddharth Barman, Caltech Approximating Caratheodory's Theorem and Nash Equilibria [slides]
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch (Moore Lab: North Courtyard and Walkway)
2:00-3:30pm	Session 4 Georgios Piliouras, Caltech Evolution, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity[slides] Francesco Bullo, UCSB On the dynamics of influence networks [slides] Jong-Shi Pang, USC Optimization-based distributed algorithms for non-cooperative games [slides]
3:30-4:00pm	Break (Annenberg Lobby)
4:00-5:30pm	Session 5 Shang-Hua Teng, USC Community Identification in Social Networks: From the Lens of Social Choice Theory and Game Theory [slides] Ichiro Obara, UCLA Dynamic Games with General Time Preferences [slides] Joel Watson, UCSD Practical PBE and a Contractual Network Application [slides]
5:30-7:00pm	Closing reception (Moore Lab: North Courtyard and Walkway)