Meet the Fellows Welcome Event Fall 2022

Sep 8, 2022 to Sep 9, 2022

Thursday, September 8th, 2022
9:30 am–9:55 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:55 am–10:00 am		Opening Remarks
10:00 am–10:15 am		Understanding the Geometry of Graph Neural Networks Claire Donnat (University of Chicago)
10:15 am–10:30 am		Transmission Neural Networks: From Virus Spread Models to Neural Networks Shuang Gao (McGill University)
10:30 am–10:45 am		Diversity and inequality in social networks Ana-Andreea Stoica (Columbia University/ MPI Tubingen)
10:45 am–11:00 am		Misinformation, Persuasion, and News Media on Social Networks Chin-Chia Hsu (Microsoft)
11:00 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–11:45 am		Estimation of Games under No Regret Niccolo Lomys (Toulouse School of Economics)
11:45 am–12:00 pm		On universal portfolios with continuous side information Alankrita Bhatt (Simons Institute)
12:00 pm–12:15 pm		Exploration for Algorithmic Fairness Jackie Baek (MIT / NYU)
12:15 pm–12:30 pm		Approximately Efficient Bilateral Trade Kangning Wang (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:15 pm		The Power of Two Matrices in Spectral Algorithms Souvik Dhara (University of California, Berkeley)
2:15 pm–2:30 pm		Recent Trends in Minimum Cut Algorithms Jason Li (Simons Institute)
2:30 pm–2:45 pm		Quantum Algorithms for Hamiltonian Simulation with Unbounded Operators Di Fang (University of California, Berkeley)
2:45 pm–3:00 pm		Quantum Scientific Computation Jin-Peng Liu (Simons Institute, Berkeley)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–3:45 pm		How Robust Is the Gittins Index? A Queueing Case Study Ziv Scully (UC Berkeley (formerly CMU))
3:45 pm–4:00 pm		Incentive-Aware Machine Learning Chara Podimata (UC Berkeley)
4:00 pm–4:15 pm		Adaptive Online Learning without Prior Knowledge Chen-Yu Wei (Simons Institute)
4:15 pm–5:15 pm		Reception

Friday, September 9th, 2022
9:30 am–10:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
10:00 am–10:15 am		Competititve Control Gautam Goel (Simons Institute)
10:15 am–10:30 am		Pseudorandom Generators and Small-Space Derandomization William Hoza (Simons Institute)
10:30 am–10:45 am		Taming the Sign Problem of Explicitly Antisymmetrized Neural Networks via Rough Activation Functions Nilin Abrahamsen (UC Berkeley)
10:45 am–11:00 am		Beyond Worst Case Analysis in ML Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis (Simons Institute/FODSI)
11:00 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–11:45 am		Algorithms Using Local Graph Features to Predict Epidemics Yeganeh Alimohammadi (Stanford)
11:45 am–12:00 pm		Simplicity and Optimality in Algorithmic Economics Divyarthi Mohan (Tel Aviv University)
12:00 pm–12:15 pm		Machine Learning on Large-Scale Graphs Luana Ruiz (University of Pennsylvania)