Schedule for: 24w5283 - Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems

Beginning on Sunday, June 2 and ending Friday June 7, 2024

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, June 2
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, June 3
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 - 09:00 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)
09:00 - 09:30 Opening session by organizers
Introductory session by Lydia Liu, Deborah Raji and Angela Zhou.
(TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Ziad Obermeyer (TBA) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Amanda Coston: Validity, problem formulation, and data-driven decision making (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Eli Ben-Michael: Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluation (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Manish Raghavan: Reconciling human and AI predictions (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)
13:00 - 14:00 Optional Guided Tour of The Banff Centre
Meet in the PDC front desk for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
14:00 - 14:20 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)
14:30 - 15:00 Poster Session Lightning talks
6-minute lightning talk + 1 minute Q&A each Speakers: Luke Guerdan, Ezinne Nwankwo, Sayash Kapoor, Michael Zanger-Tishler
(TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Poster Session and Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:45 Jessica Hullman: Provocation (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 16:00 Provocation
Speaker TBD
(TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:15 Benjamin Recht: Provocation (TCPL 201)
16:15 - 17:00 Panel: Clinical vs. Statistical Judgment
Provocations (short perspective talks) followed by panel discussion Panelists [TBD]: Ben Recht, Jessica Hullman, Ziad Obermeyer, Ashia Wilson
(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, June 4
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)
09:00 - 09:30 Daniel Malinsky: Risk prediction vs individualized treatment rules for cardiovascular care decisions: a health equity perspective (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Razieh Nabi (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Joshua Loftus: Model-agnostic explanation tools and their limitations (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Kosuke Imai: Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 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)
13:00 - 15:00 Working Session (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:45 Lily Hu: Provocation (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 16:00 Provocation
Speaker TBD
(TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:15 Solon Barocas: Provocation (TCPL 201)
16:15 - 17:00 Panel: Normative analysis in causal inference
Panelists [TBD]: Lily Hu, Alexander Tolbert, Solon Barocas
(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, June 5
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)
09:00 - 09:30 Berk Ustun: When personalization harms performance (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Matthew Salganik: The origins of unpredictability in life trajectory prediction tasks (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Juan Carlos Perdomo: The Relative Value of Prediction in Society (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Shion Guha: "Deconstructing Risk in Predictive Risk Models" (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Poster Session Lightning Talks
6-minute lightning talk + 1 minute Q&A each Speakers [TBD]: Benjamin Laufer, Hammaad Adam, Angelina Wang, Roshni Sahoo
(TCPL 201)
12:00 - 12:30 Poster Session (TCPL Foyer)
12:30 - 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, June 6
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)
09:00 - 09:30 Daniel Ho: How to test and monitor government AI in close to deployment settings (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Simone Zhang: Measuring effects in social systems or prediction models in public policy (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Rebecca Johnson: Prioritization within K-12 School Districts: Parents, Policy Categories, and Predictive Algorithms (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Bryan Wilder: Balancing competing goals in predictive intervention: targeting, equity, and learning (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 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)
14:00 - 15:00 Working session (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:45 Sendak Mark: Provocation (TCPL 201)
15:45 - 16:00 Suresh Venkatasubramanian: Provocation (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:15 Marissa Gerchick: Provocation (TCPL 201)
16:15 - 17:00 Panel: Understanding and assessing models in deployment (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, June 7
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)
09:00 - 09:30 Closing Session (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 11:30 Working session / long break (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
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)