YoungEC '17
January 1st (Sunday):
Location: Yaglom Hall, Senate Building , Tel Aviv University
| 18:30 - 20:30 | Reception and Scientific Introduction Scientific introduction and Welcome reception |
January 2nd (Monday):
Location: Bnei Zion Hall, Beit Hatfutzot, Tel Aviv University
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Noam Nisan: Complexity of Pricing [abstract] [video] |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Kira Goldner: The FedEx Problem [abstract] [video] |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Zihe Wang: Geometric Approaches to Auction Design [abstract] [video] |
| 11:55 - 12:25 | Alon Eden: The Competition Complexity of Auctions: A Bulow-Klemperer Result for Multi-Dimensional Bidders [abstract] [video] |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Christos Tzamos: Does Information Revelation Improve Revenue? [abstract] [video] |
| 13:05 - 15:00 | Lunch |
Location: Yaglom Hall, Senate Building , Tel Aviv University
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Manish Raghavan: Planning Problems for Sophisticated Agentswith Present Bias [abstract] [video] |
| 15:35 - 16:05 | Gali Noti: An Experimental Evaluation of Regret-Based Econometrics [abstract] [video] |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Ariel Rubinstein: Directions in Modeling Bounded Rationality [abstract][video] |
| 19:30 | Activity (Escape room / food tour) |
January 3rd (Tuesday):
Location: Bnei Zion Hall, Beit Hatfutzot, Tel Aviv University
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Moshe Tennenholtz: AI with GT Flavor |
| 10:05 - 10:35 | Irene Lo: A Simple Model for the Top Trading Cycles School Choice Mechanism Using Fluid Approximation [abstract] [video] |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Alice Gao: Peer Grading: From Theory to Practice [abstract] [video] |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Jan Christoph Schlegel: Testing Choice Theories [abstract] [video] |
| 12:05 - 12:35 | Nick Arnosti: Centralized Clearinghouse Design: A Quantity-Quality Tradeoff [abstract] [video] |
| 12:40 - 13:10 | Assaf Romm: The law of one price for heterogeneous good (w/ Avinatan Hassidim) [abstract] [video] |
| 13:15 - 15:00 | Lunch |
Location: Yaglom Hall, Senate Building , Tel Aviv University
| 15:05 - 15:35 | Thodoris Lykouris: Learning in Games: Robustness of Fast Convergence [abstract] [video] |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Okke Schrijvers: Online prediction with selfish experts [abstract] [video] |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Sergiu Hart: Calibration, Smooth Calibration, and Game Dynamics[abstract] [video] |
January 4th (Wednesday):
Location: Bnei Zion Hall, Beit Hatfutzot, Tel Aviv University
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Andrew Chi-Chih Yao: Recent Progress on Simple Multi-item Auctions[abstract] [video] |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Yannai Gonczarowski: Efficient Empirical Revenue Maximization in Single-Parameter Auction Environments [abstract] [video] |
| 10:55 - 11:25 | Shoshana Vasserman: Spilling Secrets to Competitors: The Value of Information Revelation under Price Competition [abstract] [video] |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Coffee |
| 11:55 - 12:25 | Tomer Ezra: Pricing Social Goods [abstract] [video] |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Bo Waggoner: On Information Elicitation and Mechanism Design [abstract][video] |
| 13:05 - 15:00 | Lunch |
Location: Yaglom Hall, Senate Building , Tel Aviv University
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Annie Liang: Predicting Initial Play Using Crowd Predictions [abstract] |
| 15:35 - 16:05 | James Wright: Algorithmic Modeling of Human Behavior [abstract] [video] |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Ido Erev: From Anomalies to Forecasts: Toward a Descriptive Model of Human Choice Behavior [abstract] [video] |
| 19:30 | Workshop dinner at Bariba Restaurant |
January 5th (Thursday):
Location: Bnei Zion Hall, Beit Hatfutzot, Tel Aviv University
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Tim Roughgarden: Complexity Theory and Algorithmic Game Theory: Some New Connections [abstract] [video] |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Haifeng Xu: Algorithmic Bayesian Persuasion [abstract] [video] |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Inbal Talgam Cohen: Approximate Modularity Revisited [abstract] [video] |
| 11:25 - 11:55 | Jieming Mao: Simultaneous Communication Complexity of Two-party Combinatorial Auctions [abstract] [video] |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Ophir Friedler: A Simple and Approximately Optimal Mechanism for a Buyer with Complements [abstract] [video] |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Rachel Cummings: The Strange Case of Privacy in Equilibrium Models[abstract] [video] |
| 15:05 - 15:35 | Simina Branzei: Nash social welfare for strategic agents [abstract] [video] |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Aviad Rubinstein: Beyond-X: Toward more general Prophet Inequalities and Secretary Problems [abstract] [video] |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Michal Feldman: Posted price mechanisms [abstract] [video] |
| 19:30 | TLV all nighter |
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