Friday September 11

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:45 Session I

Duncan Watts – Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges

Sandy Pentland – Social Physics

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Session II

David Pennock – Designing Wagering Mechanisms

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Session III

Lars Backstrom – Generating a Billion Personalized Experiences

Charles Manski – Statistical Decision Theory for Treatment Choice

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 Session IV

Michael Kearns – Privacy, Game Theory, and Counterterrorism

Arthur Spirling – Democratization and Linguistic Complexity

6:30-7:00 – Reception (Yale/Princeton Room, Statler Hotel) (For Invited Guests)

7:00 – Dinner (Yale/Princeton Room, Statler Hotel) (For Invited Guests)

Saturday September 12

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-10:30 Session V

Sendhil Mullainathan – Prediction Policy Problems

James Evans – Can We Agree on Science? Measuring the Ideological Alignment of Science with Book Co-purchase Data

10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Session VI

Lada Adamic – Exposure to Ideologically Diverse News and Opinion on Facebook

12:00 Lunch