Schedule for: 24w5244 - Causal Inference and Prediction for Network Data
Beginning on Sunday, August 18 and ending Friday August 23, 2024
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).
| Sunday, August 18 | |
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| 16:00 - 17:30 | Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer) |
| Monday, August 19 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:15 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:15 - 08:30 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Eric Kolaczyk (TCPL 201) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Keith Levin (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Alexander Volfovsky (TCPL 201) |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Dean Eckles (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:05 | Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya: Study of Political Polarization Using Network Analysis (TCPL 201) |
| 16:05 - 16:40 | Arun Chandrasekhar: Non-robustness of Diffusion Estimates on Networks with Measurement Error (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, August 20 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:20 | Benjamin Bloem-Reddy: Causal Inference with Cocycles (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:55 | Daniel Sussman: Causal Inference under Network Interference with Noise (TCPL 201) |
| 09:55 - 10:30 | Ji Zhu: A Latent Space Model for Hypergraphs with Diversity and Heterogeneous Popularity (TCPL 201) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:50 - 11:25 | Elena Zheleva: Causal Discovery in Networks (TCPL 201) |
| 11:25 - 12:00 | Karl Rohe: PCA without Linear Algebra. PCA for the People. (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 14:40 - 15:05 | Can Le: Parametric Bootstrap on Networks with Non-Exchangeable Nodes (TCPL 201) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Elizabeth Ogburn: Nonsense Associations in Markov Random Fields (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Liza Levina: Interpretable Prediction on Networks (TCPL 201) |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Yinqiu He: Efficient Analysis of Latent Spaces in Heterogeneous Networks (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, August 21 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:20 | Tracy Ke: Using Cycle Counts for Network Inference (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:55 | Yingying Fan: SIMPLE-RC: Group Network Inference with Non-Sharp Nulls and Weak Signals (TCPL 201) |
| 09:55 - 10:30 | Alessandro Rinaldo: Networks, graphical models and exchangeability (TCPL 201) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:50 - 11:25 | Nynke Niezink: Three-Way Networks: Methods and Applications (TCPL 201) |
| 11:25 - 12:00 | Panagiotis Toulis: Experimental Designs for Tax Audit Policies on a Large Interfirm Network (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, August 22 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:20 | Carey Priebe: Spectral Graph Methods Yield Performance Guarantees for LLMs (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:55 | Dave Choi: Improved Methods for Estimating the Number of Units Affected by the Treatment of Others (TCPL 201) |
| 09:55 - 10:30 | Shirshendu Chatterjee: Change-point estimation in sparse dynamic network models (TCPL 201) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:50 - 11:25 | Subhadeep Paul: Identifying Peer Influence Adjusting for Latent Homophily (TCPL 201) |
| 11:25 - 12:00 | Christopher Harshaw: Estimating Direct Effects under Interference: a Spectral Approach to Experimental Design (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 14:40 - 15:05 | Heejong Bong: Doubly Robust Non-parametric Estimation of Causal Effect under Network Interference (TCPL 201) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Eric Kolaczyk: Estimation of Branching Factors in Noisy Networks (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Jesús Arroyo: Network Record Linkage via Graph Matching with Covariates (TCPL 201) |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Tianxi Li: Multivariate Network Comparison by Subsampling (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Friday, August 23 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:20 | Vince Lyzinski: The Effect of Shuffled Vertex Labels on Multiple Network Inference (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:55 | Jingfei Zhang: Pseudolikelihood Methods in Stochastic Blockmodels (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Panel Discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
