Second CAMSE-CLIMB Mini-Conference
On Friday February 21st, 2025 the Center for the Application of Mathematics and Statistics to Economics (CAMSE) and the Center for the Theoretical Foundations of Learning, Inference, Information, Intelligence, Mathematics and Microeconomics at Berkeley (CLIMB) will host one day mini-conference. The goal is to gather campus researchers at the intersection of economics, machine learning and statistics. Attendence is open to anyone from the Berkeley data science communities (broadly and inclusively defined). Registration is not required. Just come!
The conference will be held in room 250 of Sutardja Dai Hall on the north side of the UC Berkeley campus (close to the North Gate of campus).
A preliminary conference program can be found below.
Second CAMSE-CLIMB Mini-Conference
Organizers
Bryan Graham
With special thanks to:
Naomi Yamasaki
Friday, February 21st, 2025
250 Sutardja Dai Hall
Morning Session: Students & Post-Docs Speakers, 9:40AM to 12:00PM
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:40AM to 10:00AM | Sara Neff, UC - Berkeley, Economics | Model complexity and restrictiveness |
| 10:00AM to 10:20AM | Lea Bottmer, Stanford, Economics | Synthetic control in disaggregated data settings |
| 10:20AM to 10:40AM | Kunhe Yang, UC - Berkeley, Computer Science | Leakage-robust Bayesian persuasion |
| 10:40AM to 11:00AM | Break | |
| 11:00AM to 11:20AM | Kaitlyn J. Lee, UC - Berkeley, Biostatistics | RieszBoost: gradient boosting for Riesz regression |
| 11:20AM to 11:40AM | Amar Venugopal, Stanford, Economics | Causal inference on outcomes learned from text |
| 11:40AM to 12:00PM | Jason Weitze, Stanford, Economics | A predictive approach to structural identification |
Afternoon Session: Faculty Speakers, 2:00PM to 5:45PM
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1: Policy Analysis and Evaluation | ||
| 2:00PM to 2:30PM | Guido Imbens, Stanford, GSB & Economics | Causal panel data models |
| 2:30PM to 3:00PM | Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey, UC - Berkeley, Economics | Mechanism reform: an application to child welfare |
| 3:00PM to 3:30PM | Break | |
| Session 2: Causal Inference and Networks | ||
| 3:30PM to 4:00PM | Mengsi Gao, Berkeley, Econommics | Endogenous interference in randomized experiments |
| 4:00PM to 4:30PM | Lihua Lei, Stanford, GSB | Causal clustering: design of cluster experiments under network interference |
| 4:30PM to 4:45PM | Break | |
| Session 3: Distinguished Guest Speaker | ||
| 4:45PM to 5:45PM | Elena Manresa, NYU, Economics | Adversarial Method of Moments |