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SoCal NEGT Symposium 2014


2014 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory

November 20-21, 2014


Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology
California Institute of Technology

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)