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Algebraic Economics

Description

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This workshop will bring together experts and young researchers from the fields of algebraic statistics and economics interested in tackling challenging problems in social sciences, public policy, and urban development. The workshop is aimed at fostering collaboration and  identifying emerging trends between the two fields that traditionally have not interacted much. Experts will present state of the art research on topics that include data privacy, causal inference, dynamical systems, network models, game theory, information trade, and auctions. These are topics that have been classically studied in both fields but in different frameworks. For this reason, plenty of time will be devoted to creating a common language and for discussion of open problems.

Organizers

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M K
Mladen Kolar University of Chicago
S P
Sonja Petrović Illinois Institute of Technology
P Z
Piotr Zwiernik University of Toronto

Speakers

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M A
Majid Al-Sadoon Durham University
B A
Bryon Aragam University of Chicago
W A
Weslynne Ashton Illinois Institute of Technology
E A
Eric Auerbach Northwestern University
S D
Souvik Dhara Brown University
R E
Robin Evans Oxford University
F G
Fabrizio Germano Universitat Pompeu Fabra
B G
Ben Golub Northwestern University
Y G
Yuqi Gu Columbia University
B H
Ben Hollering MPI Leipzig
V K
Vishesh Karwa Temple University
G M
Geert Mesters Universitat Pompeu Fabra
D P
Debdeep Pati Texas A&M University
I P
Irem Portakal Technical University of Munich
L S
Leonard Schulman Caltech
A S
Aleksandra Slavković Pennsylvania State University
L S
Liam Solus KTH Stockholm
Y W
Yuhao Wang Tsinghua University

Schedule

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Monday, November 6, 2023
9:00-10:00 CST
Game theory of undirected graphical models

Speaker: Irem Portakal (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

10:00-10:30 CST
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 CST
Relaxing Independence

Speaker: Geert Mesters  (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

11:30-12:30 CST
Lunch
12:30-13:30 CST
Justice, Equity and the Circular Economy

Speaker: Weslynne Ashton  (Illinois Institute of Technology)

13:30-14:00 CST
Coffee Break
14:00-15:00 CST
Supply Network Formation and Fragility

Speaker: Ben Golub   (Northwestern University)

15:00-16:30 CST
Social Hour
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
9:00-10:00 CST
Community Detection with Censoring

Speaker: Souvik Dhara  (Brown University)

10:00-10:30 CST
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 CST
Learning compositional structure from data

Speaker:  Bryon Aragam  (University of Chicago)

11:30-12:30 CST
Lunch
12:30-13:30 CST
Identifiability of Statistical Models with Latent Symmetries

Speaker: Leonard Schulman  (California Institute of Technology)

13:30-14:00 CST
Coffee Break
14:00-15:00 CST
Confidence Sets for Causal Orderings

Speaker: Mladen Kolar (University of Chicago)

15:00-16:00 CST
“What is…?” Session

Quick-take discussions focused on topics that appear in talks. Organizers will collect questions “in a hat” each morning and afternoon. During the session, they will include a question and a suggested ‘speaker’ to answer it. Anonymous submissions.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023
9:00-10:00 CST
The Geometry of Colored Gaussian DAG Models

Speaker: Liam Solus  (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

10:00-10:30 CST
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 CST
Monte Carlo goodness-of-fit tests for degree-corrected and related Stochastic Block Models

Speaker: Vishesh Karwa  (Temple University)

11:30-12:30 CST
Lunch
12:30-13:30 CST
Discovery/Challenge Session

Each speaker of the workshop is asked to provide a question to be worked on by all participants, in small groups. They can range from small examples related to their talk, or a open question, or a challenge to formulate an applied problem mathematically. The hour is used by participants to work on these challenges together in small groups.

13:30-14:00 CST
Coffee Break
14:00-15:00 CST
The Identification Problem for Linear Rational Expectations Models

Speaker: Majid Al-Sadoon (Durham University)

15:00-16:00 CST
Discovery/Challenge Session

Each speaker of the workshop is asked to provide a question to be worked on by all participants, in small groups. They can range from small examples related to their talk, or a open question, or a challenge to formulate an applied problem mathematically. The hour is used by participants to work on these challenges together in small groups.

Thursday, November 9, 2023
9:00-10:00 CST
On geometry and taxonomies of simple games: classifying 2×2 ordinal games based on behavioral rules and experimental evidence

Speaker: Fabrizio Germano   (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

10:00-10:30 CST
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 CST
Evidence bounds in singular models: probabilistic and variational perspective

Speaker: Debdeep Pati   (Texas A&M University, College Station)

11:30-13:30 CST
Lunch
12:30-13:30 CST
Identifying Socially Disruptive Policies

Speaker: Eric Auerbach (Northwestern University)

13:30-14:00 CST
Coffee Break
14:00-15:00 CST
Identifiable Deep Generative Models with Discrete Latent Layers

Speaker: Yuqi Gu  (Columbia University)

15:00-15:05 CST
Tech Break
15:05-16:05 CST
Long-term causal inference under persistent confounding via data combination

Speaker:  Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University)

Friday, November 10, 2023
9:00-10:00 CST
Combinatorics of Correlated Equilibria

Speaker: Ben Hollering  (MPI Leipzig)

10:00-10:30 CST
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 CST
Causal Model Selection and Local Geometry

Speaker: Robin Evans   (Oxford University)

11:30-12:30 CST
Lunch
12:30-13:30 CST
Closing Discussion

Videos

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Game theory of undirected graphical models

Irem Portakal
November 6, 2023

Relaxing Independence

Geert Mesters 
November 6, 2023

Justice, Equity and the Circular Economy

Weslynne Ashton 
November 6, 2023

Supply Network Formation and Fragility

Ben Golub  
November 6, 2023

Community Detection with Censoring

Souvik Dhara 
November 7, 2023

Learning compositional structure from data

Bryon Aragam 
November 7, 2023

Identifiability of Statistical Models with Latent Symmetries

Leonard Schulman 
November 7, 2023

Confidence Sets for Causal Orderings

Mladen Kolar
November 7, 2023

Monte Carlo goodness-of-fit tests for degree-corrected and related Stochastic Block Models

Vishesh Karwa 
November 8, 2023

The Identification Problem for Linear Rational Expectations Models

Majid Al-Sadoon
November 8, 2023

Evidence bounds in singular models: probabilistic and variational perspective

Debdeep Pati  
November 9, 2023

Identifiable Deep Generative Models with Discrete Latent Layers

Yuqi Gu 
November 9, 2023

Long-term causal inference under persistent confounding via data combination

Yuhao Wang
November 9, 2023

Combinatorics of Correlated Equilibria

Ben Hollering 
November 10, 2023

Causal Model Selection and Local Geometry

Robin Evans  
November 10, 2023