Workshop Program

Day 1

Session 1 – Mathematical Models [09:00am-11am EDT/1:30pm-4pm BST]:

09:00 EDT – Alexander Stewart (Mathematics, St Andrews)

How fast should we move in order to break things?

09:30 EDT – Christian Hilbe (MPI Plön)

Evolutionary game theory – an assessment of the status quo and of the conceptual gaps

10:00 EDT – Corina Tarnita (EEB, Princeton)

Diversity versus uniformity in social systems

10:30 EDT – Open discussion/Break

Session 2 – Empirical Problems & Practical Translation [11am-2:00pm EDT/4pm-7:00pm BST]:

11:00 EDT – Joanna Bryson (Hertie School of Governance)

Economic insecurity increases polarization and decreases trust

11:30 EDT – Joe Bak-Coleman (Columbia Journalism)

Estimating the impact of misinformation interventions online

12:00 EDT – Yphtach Lelkes (Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn)

American partisans misperceive the diversity, not the extremity, of other partisans’ attitudes

12:30 EDT – Fiery Cushman (Psychology, Harvard)

How do people teach and learn from evaluative feedback?

13:00 EDT – Carl Bergstrom (Biology, UWash)

Toward a new “new economics of science”

13:30 EDT – Open discussion

Session 1 – Mathematical Models [9am-11:30am EDT/2pm-4:30pm BST]:

09:00 EDT – Simon Levin (EEB, Princeton)

Public Goods, Social Externalities and Political Polarization

09:30 EDT – Joshua Plotkin (Biology, UPenn)

Design principles for institutions that moderate behavior

10:00 EDT – Vítor Vasconcelos (Informatics Institute, Amsterdam)

Network effects in highly stochastic social processes

10:30 EDT – Naoki Masuda (Mathematics, Buffalo)

Fixation probability in opinion formation dynamics on higher-order networks

11:00 EDT – Open discussion/Break

Session 2 – Empirical Problems & Practical Translation [11:30am-1:30pm EDT/4:30pm-6:30pm BST]:

11:30 EDT – Hannah Li (Columbia Business School)

Interference Bias in Marketplace Experiments

12:00 EDT – Alex McAvoy (Mathematics, UPenn)

Unilateral incentive alignment in two-player stochastic games

12:30 EDT – David Rand (Sloan School of Management, MIT)

Harnessing polarization to combat misinformation

13:00 EDT – Open discussion