About the Series
The IDEAL workshop series brings in four experts on topics related to the foundations of data science to present their perspective and research on a common theme. Chicago area researchers with an interest in the foundations of data science. The series will be remote while our universities and local government advise avoiding non-essential meetings. The virtual format will have two talks before lunch, two talks after lunch, and an early evening panel discussion (where appropriate).
Part of the Special Quarter on Inference and Data Science on Networks.
Synopsis
Over the past decade or so, many diverse communities have become increasingly interested in networks as a way of understanding the role of interconnections between various entities. For example, economists, social scientists and policy researchers have studied how the social and economic ties between agents drive important economic phenomena such as income inequality, human capital accumulation, the dynamics of the business cycle and research productivity. Likewise, there has been interest from computer scientists and engineers in understanding the network structures that emerge in the Internet, the World Wide Web and online social networks. However, the empirical literature has been limited by the fact that networks are inherently high-dimensional objects, which makes it intractable to directly assess the importance of network structure without a substantial amount of unrealistic functional form assumptions. These present several new and exciting statistical and algorithmic challenges at the interface of network science, econometrics and machine learning.
In this workshop several of the coorganizers of the special quarter will speak about their vision for the theme. Talks will be by Eric Auerbach, Randall Berry, Ozan Candogan, and Aravindan Vijayaraghavan.
Logistics
- Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020.
- Location: Zoom participation (register below), Panopto streaming.
- Registration: Registration form. Registered participants will get a Zoom link to the workshop by email.
Schedule
- 10:55-11:00: Opening Remarks
- 11:00-11:40:
. - 11:45-12:25: Randall Berry (Northwestern University, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Social Learning with Corrupted Observations. - 12:30-1:30: Lunch Break
- 1:30-2:10:
. - 2:15-2:55:
Persuasion in Networks: Public Signals and k-Cores.
: - 3:00-4:00: Afternoon Break
- 4:00-5:00: Open Problems Session (for members of the institute)