Workshops

Fall 2019

Online and Matching-Based Market Design Reunion

Mar 1, 2021 to Mar 3, 2021

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Full participation (including the capacity to ask questions) will be available via Zoom.

All talk times are in Pacific Time.

Monday, March 1st, 2021
		Session Chair: Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:30 am		Online Stochastic Max-Weight Bipartite Matching: Beyond Prophet Inequalities David Wajc (Stanford University)
9:30 am–9:40 am		Break
9:40 am–10:10 am		The General Graph Matching Game: Approximate Core Vijay Vazirani (UC Irvine)
10:10 am–10:40 pm		Gather.town
10:40 am–11:10 am		Algorithms for Stable Matchings in Models with Choice Functions Yuri Faenza (Columbia University)
11:10 am–11:20 am		Break
11:20 am–11:50 am		Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth)
11:50 am–12:10 pm		Gather.town
12:10 pm–12:40 pm		One-Sided Matching Markets with Endowments: Equilibria and Algorithms Thorben Tröbst (UC Irvine)
12:40 pm–12:50 pm		Break
12:50 pm–1:20 pm		Randomized FIFO Mechanisms Hongyao Ma (Columbia Business School)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
		Session Chair: Daniela Saban (Stanford University)
9:00 am–9:30 am		Online Assortment Optimization for Two-sided Matching Platforms Daniela Saban (Stanford University)
9:30 am–9:40 am		Break
9:40 am–10:10 am		Preference Learning in School Choice, with Aaron Bodoh-Creed and Anqi Li. SangMok Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Gather.town
10:40 am–11:10 am		The Design of University Entrance Exams and Its Implications for Gender Gaps Caterina Calsamiglia (IPEG)
11:10 am–11:20 am		Break
11:20 am–11:50 am		Stability-Preserving, Time-Efficient Mechanisms for School Choice in Two Rounds Karthik Gajulapalli (UC Irvine)
11:50 am–12:10 pm		Gather.town
12:10 pm–12:40 pm		Understanding Fairness in Online Allocation Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University)
12:40 pm–12:50 pm		Break
12:50 pm–1:20 pm		Online Policies for Efficient Volunteer Crowdsourcing Scott Rodilitz (Yale University)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
		Session Chair: Vahideh Manshadi (Yale)
9:00 am–9:30 am		Fair Dynamic Rationing Vahideh Manshadi (Yale University)
9:30 am–9:40 am		Break
9:40 am–10:10 am		Two-Sided Random Matching Markets: Ex-Ante Equivalence of the Deferred Acceptance Procedures Simon Mauras (Université de Paris)
10:10 am–10:40 am		Gather.town
10:40 am–11:10 am		Increasing Supply vs Improving Matching: A Random Walk Down Spatial Markets Amin Saberi (Stanford University)
11:10 am–11:20 am		Break
11:20 am–11:50 am		Competition and Search Frictions in (Random) Matching Markets Yash Kanoria (Columbia University)
11:50 am–12:10 pm		Gather.town
12:10 pm–12:55 pm		Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity through Information Design Afshin Nikzad (University of Southern California)
12:55 pm–1:05 pm		Break
1:05 pm–1:35 pm		On Multi-Dimensional Gains from Trade Maximization Kira Goldner (Columbia University)