Workshops
Fall 2020

Theory of Reinforcement Learning Reunion

Nov 15, 2021 to Nov 18, 2021 

All talk times are in Pacific Time. 

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Monday, November 15th, 2021
9:00 am9:20 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am10:00 am
Aaron Sidford (Stanford University)
10:00 am10:30 am
Lin Yang (UCLA)
10:30 am11:00 am
Break
11:00 am12:00 pm
Discussion: Getting Organized
12:00 pm1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm2:00 pm
Ashwin Pananjady (Georgia Tech)
2:00 pm2:30 pm
Chi Jin (Princeton University)
2:30 pm3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm4:00 pm
Discussion: General Function Approximation
4:00 pm5:00 pm
Reception
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
9:00 am9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am10:00 am
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)
10:00 am10:30 am
Sean Meyn (University of Florida)
10:30 am11:00 am
Break
11:00 am12:00 pm
Discussion: Failures of RL
12:00 pm1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm2:00 pm
Zhuoran Yang (Princeton University)
2:00 pm2:30 pm
Alan Malek (DeepMind)
2:30 pm3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm4:00 pm
Discussion: Deep RL
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
9:00 am9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am10:00 am
Vidya Muthukumar (Georgia Tech)
10:00 am10:30 am
Wouter Koolen (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
10:30 am11:00 am
Break
11:00 am12:00 pm
Discussion: Teaching RL
12:00 pm1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm2:00 pm
Christina Yu (Cornell University)
2:00 pm2:30 pm
Jason Lee (Princeton University)
2:30 pm3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm4:00 pm
Impromptu Talks
Thursday, November 18th, 2021
9:00 am9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am10:00 am
Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley)
10:00 am10:30 am
Tengyu Ma (Stanford University)
10:30 am11:00 am
Break
11:00 am12:00 pm
Discussion: Practice vs. Theory
12:00 pm1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm2:00 pm
Stefan Wager (Stanford University)
2:00 pm2:30 pm
Zhaoran Wang (Northwestern University)
2:30 pm3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm4:00 pm
Discussion: Structure and RL