Matching and Objectives

Sep 4, 2019 to Sep 6, 2019

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
		Participant Discussion Sessions – 2nd & 3rd Floors

Thursday, September 5th, 2019
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:25 am–9:30 am		Introduction
9:30 am–10:20 am		Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University)
10:20 am–11:10 am		A Simple Condition for Constant Regret in Online Decision-Making Daniel Freund (MIT)
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Open Problems in the Display Ads Market Place Balu Sivan (Google Research)
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:50 pm		Job Matching under Constraints Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University)
2:50 pm–3:40 pm		Information Acquisition Costs in Matching Markets Irene Lo (Stanford University)
3:40 pm–4:10 pm		Break
4:10 pm–5:00 pm		Fairness and Efficiency for Probabilistic Allocations with Endowments Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology)
5:00 pm–6:15 pm		Reception

Friday, September 6th, 2019
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:20 am		Online Matching for Ride-sharing Zhiyi Huang (The University of Hong Kong)
10:20 am–11:00 am		The Best of Both Worlds: Asymptotically Efficient Mechanisms with a Worst-Case Guarantee on the Gains-From-Trade Yang Cai (Yale University)
11:10 am–11:40 am		Break
11:40 am–12:30 pm		Faira, an application of Game Theory in Real Estate Kamal Jain (Faira.com)
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:50 pm		On Matching and Thickness in Heterogeneous Dynamic Markets Vahideh Manshadi (Yale University)
2:50 pm–3:40 pm		Dynamically Stable Matching Laura Doval (Caltech)
3:40 pm–4:10 pm		Break
4:10 pm–5:00 pm		Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation Nick Arnosti (Columbia University)