WISE16: Workshop on Information and Social
Economics
Social & Information Sciences
Laboratory
(SISL)
California Institute of Technology
∗
August 4-6, 2016
Contents
The workshop will feature the latest research on social and economic
networks and their connection with information economics. Topics include,
but are not limited to, learning in networks, social influence, strategic
interaction in networks, peer effects, etc. There will be paper presentations
and ample time for informal discussion and interaction.
∗
Organizing committee: Ben Golub (Harvard), Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE), Omer Tamuz
(Caltech). Administrative
assistant: Barbara Estrada. Email:
bestrada@caltech.edu.
1
Confirmed participants
By invitation only.
2
Program
|
Thursday, August 4th |
Friday, August 5th |
Saturday, August 6th |
9:00 |
breakfast |
breakfast |
breakfast |
9:30 |
Matthew Jackson |
Stephen Morris |
Lones Smith |
10:30 |
break |
break |
break |
11:00 |
Pooya Molavi |
Philipp Strack |
Markus Mobius |
11:30 |
Itai Arieli |
Kostas Bimpikis |
Yang Cai |
12:00 |
lunch |
lunch |
lunch |
1:00 |
Arun Chandrasekhar |
David Hirshleifer |
Matthew Elliott |
1:30 |
Maryam Farboodi |
Nageeb Ali |
Mallesh Pai |
2:00 |
break |
break |
break |
2:30 |
Evan Sadler |
Adam Szeidl |
Ali Tahbaz-Salehi |
3:00 |
Leeat Yariv |
Vasilis Syrgkanis |
Ben Golub |
3:30 |
Manuel Mueller-Frank |
Omer Tamuz |
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4:00 |
|
cocktail hour |
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5:30 |
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conference dinner |
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The cocktail hour and the conference
dinner on the evening of Friday the 5
th will take
place at the
Caltech Athenaeum.
3 Venue, accommodation and directions
The workshop will be held
in
Baxter
Hall, room 25, on the
Caltech campus in Pasadena, California.
Participants who are interested in staying at
the
Pasadena Courtyard
Marriott can
contact Barbara Estrada
(Email:
bestrada@caltech.edu) with help with
booking rooms at the discounted Caltech rate.
4 Contact
Omer Tamuz:
tamuz@caltech.edu.