Workshops

Spring 2018

Societal Networks

Mar 26, 2018 to Mar 29, 2018

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Monday, March 26th, 2018
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:15 am		A Stochastic Resource-Sharing Network for Electric Vehicle Charging Bert Zwart, CWI Amsterdam
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:15 am		Streaming Analytics for Power Systems: A Tale of Two Time Scales Le Xie, Texas A&M University
11:15 am–11:45 am		Learning and Targeting the Right Customers for Residential Demand Response: A Case Study and A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach Na Li, Harvard University
11:45 am–12:15 pm		Real-Time Monitoring, Verification, and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems Sanjit Seshia, UC Berkeley
12:15 pm–1:45 pm		Lunch
1:45 pm–2:15 pm		An Axiomatic Theory of Non Bayesian Social Learning Ali Jadbabaie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:15 pm–2:45 pm		Learning Latent Events from Network Message Logs R. Srikant, University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Learning to Control Unknown Systems Rahul Jain, University of Southern California
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–4:15 pm		Tensor Recovery for a New Liquid Biopsy Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Lightning Talks
5:00 pm–6:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		Urban Data & Decisions Steven Koonin, New York University
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:15 am		Intelligent Intersections Pravin Varaiya, UC Berkeley
11:15 am–11:45 am		Decentralized Signal Control for Urban Road Networks Neil Walton, University of Manchester
11:45 am–12:15 pm		Making Sense of Hierarchical Log Data Damon Wischik, University of Cambridge
12:15 pm–1:45 pm		Lunch
1:45 pm–2:15 pm		Real‐Time Control of Electrical Distribution Grids Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EFPL
2:15 pm–2:45 pm		Learning and Optimization of Static and Dynamic Appointments Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Guaranteeing Timeliness Via Prices: Optimal Scheduling of Real-Time Wireless Networks with Hard End-to-End Deadlines P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–4:15 pm		Data Assimilation for Discrete-Event Simulations Peter Glynn, Stanford University
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Lightning Talks

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		Learning in Games with Dynamic Population Eva Tardos, Cornell University
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:15 am		A Marketplace for Data: An Algorithmic Solution Munther Dahleh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:15 am–11:45 am		Optimal Policies for Online Markets with Social Signals Pascal Van Hentenryck, University of Michigan
11:45 am–12:15 pm		Sparse Metric Repair: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan
12:15 pm–1:45 pm		Lunch
1:45 pm–2:15 pm		Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators Jose Correa, Universidad de Chile
2:15 pm–2:45 pm		Risk-averse Selfish Routing Evdokia Nikolova, University of Texas at Austin
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		A Variational Inequality Framework for Network Games: Existence, Uniqueness, Convergence and Sensitivity Analysis Asu Özdağlar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–4:15 pm		Bandit Learning with Positive Externalities Ramesh Johari, Stanford University
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Online Learning and Optimization in Distributed Energy Systems: Some Problems and Opportunities Ram Rajagopal, Stanford University

Thursday, March 29th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		Signaling with Surge Pricing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment at Uber Peter Frazier, Cornell University & Uber
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:15 am		Pricing in Ridesharing Networks Garrett van Ryzin, Cornell Tech & Lyft
11:15 am–11:45 am		Incentives and Games in Large Scale Mobility Alexandre Bayen, UC Berkeley
11:45 am–12:15 pm		The Rideshare Dispatch Problem (Aka Online Bipartite Matching with Supply Externalities) Sid Banerjee, Cornell University
12:15 pm–1:45 pm		Lunch
1:45 pm–2:15 pm		Time Series Analysis via Matrix Estimation Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:15 pm–2:45 pm		Dynamic Matching Models Ana Bušić, INRIA and École Normale Supérieure Paris
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Clearing Matching Markets Efficiently: Informative Signals and Match Recommendations Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–4:15 pm		Irrational Agents and the Power Grid Sean Meyn, University of Florida
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Mobilizing Grid Flexibility for Renewables Integration through Enhanced Computation Shmuel Oren, UC Berkeley