Program
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Location
Talks will take place at Bnei Zion Hall, Beit HatfutzotDecember 29-30 (Sunday-Monday):
CS TheoryFest at TAU: https://sites.google.com/view/tau-theory-fest/home
December 31st (Tuesday):
8:30 — 8:50 | Registration and Coffee |
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8:50 — 9:00 | Noam Nisan and Michal Feldman : Welcome |
9:00 — 9:45 | Steve Tadelis: Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes [abstract][video] |
9:45 — 10:10 | Ellen Muir: Efficient Adjustment Dynamics [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
10:30 — 10:55 | Gali Noti: Neural Networks for Predicting Human Interactions in Repeated Games [abstract][video] |
10:55 — 11:20 | Lee Cohen: Optimal Algorithm for Bayesian Incentive-Compatible Exploration [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
11:40 — 12:05 | Bar Light: Quality selection in two-sided platforms [abstract][video] |
12:05 — 12:30 | Steffen Schuldenzucker: Financial Networks with Derivatives: Complexity and Systemic Risk [abstract][video] |
Lunch | |
2:00 — 2:25 | Weiran Shen: AI-driven mechanism design [abstract][video] |
2:25 — 2:50 | Arpita Biswas: Fair Allocation of Structured Set Systems [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
3:10 — 3:35 | Alon Eden: Auction Design under Interdependent Value [abstract][video] |
3:35 — 4:00 | Ariel Schvartzman: Smoothed Analysis of Multi-Item Auctions with Correlated Values [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
4:20 — 5:05 | Paul Milgrom: Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms [abstract][video] |
New Year’s night out in Tel-Aviv (on your own) |
January 1st (Wednesday):
10:00 — 10:25 | Zi Yang Kang: Strategy-Proof Bilateral Trade [abstract][video] |
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10:25 — 10:50 | Ben Berger: On the power and limits of dynamic pricing in combinatorial markets [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
11:10 — 11:35 | Elisheva S. Shamash: Principal-Agent VCG Contracts [abstract][video] |
11:35 — 12:00 | Yifeng Teng: Buy-many mechanisms are not much better than item pricing [abstract][video] |
12:00 — 12:25 | Giorgio Martini: Multidimensional Disclosure [abstract][video] |
Lunch | |
2:00 — 2:45 | Liane Lewin-Eytan: Alexa, Why Do People Buy Seemingly Irrelevant Items in Voice Product Search? [abstract][video] |
2:45 — 3:10 | Divya Mohan: Approximation Schemes for Revenue Maximization via Symmetries [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
3:30 — 3:55 | Yannai Gonczarowski: A Compact, Logical Approach to Scaling Economic Theories [abstract][video] |
3:55 — 4:20 | Kira Goldner: Reducing Inefficiency in Carbon Auctions with Imperfect Competition Values [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
4:40 — 5:05 | Yuan Deng: Non-Clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constraints and Beyond [abstract][video] |
5:05 — 5:30 | Neil Newman: A Second Look at the Incentive Auction: Exploring Trade-offs in the Incentive Auction Design Space [abstract][video] |
7:30 | Workshop Dinner |
January 2nd (Thursday):
9:00 — 9:45 | Nina Balcan: Machine Learning for Mechansim Design [abstract][video] |
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9:45 — 10:10 | Omer Ben-Porat: Fiduciary Bandits [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
10:30 — 10:55 | Tomer Ezra: A General Framework for Endowment Effects in Combinatorial Markets [abstract][video] |
10:55 — 11:20 | Andres Cristi: The two-sided game of Googol and sample-based prophet inequalities [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
11:40 — 12:05 | Ron Kupfer: The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing Gross Substitutes Functions [abstract][video] |
12:05 — 12:30 | Rebecca Reiffenhauser: Secretary Algorithms for Online Assignment Problems [abstract][video] |
Lunch | |
2:00 — 2:25 | Segev Shlomov: Robust Non-Bayesian Social Learning [abstract][video] |
2:25 — 2:50 | Shuran Zheng: Selling Information Through Consulting [abstract][video] |
Coffee | |
3:10 — 3:35 | Ellen Vitercik: Estimating Approximate Incentive Compatibility [abstract][video] |
3:35 — 4:20 | Yishay Mansour: Exploration, Exploitation and Incentives [abstract][video] |
January 3rd (Friday):
Trip to Jerusalem |