REGISTRATION
There is no fee to attend the conference and meals will be included for all registered participants. Discounted hotel rooms are also available at the Hyatt Place Boca Raton. We will send you the discount code within 24 hours of your registration. Spaces are limited and will be first-come-first-served.
If you are interested in attending the 2023 Interactive Causal Learning Conference, please take a moment to complete our Registration Form.
Speakers
Speaker details are available through the links below
Eli Ben-Michael
Carnegie Mellon University
Ryan Carey
The University of Oxford
Annya Dahmani
The University of California, Berkeley
James Fox
The University of Oxford
Kasra Jalaldoust
Columbia University
Conner Jerzak
University of Texas at Austin
Apoorva Lal
Netflix
Jinyuan Liu
Vanderbilt University
Judith Lok
Boston University
Benjamin Manning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mihnea Moldoveanu
University of Toronto
Kai Sandbrink
The University of Oxford
Roshni Sahoo
Stanford University
Mats Julius Stensrud
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Armeen Taeb
University of Washington
Mark Van Der Laan
University of Amsterdam
Ritwik Vashistha
University of Texas at Austin
Chris Vickers
Auburn University
Linbo Wang
University of Toronto
Ye Wang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yixin Wang
University of Michigan
Eunice Yiu
University of California, Berkeley
Ang Yu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Welcome Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Location: The Terrace at the Hyatt Place Boca Raton
Breakfast
Location: The Breakfast Bar at the Hyatt Place Hotel
Transportation to Florida Atlantic University College of Business
Session 1: Human Causal Learning
Towards Understanding Automated Causal Curriculum Learning in Humans and Reinforcement Learning Agents
Caregiver Presence Influences the Explore-Exploit Trade-off
Children Prioritize Purely Exploratory Actions in Observe-vs.-Bet Tasks
Break
Session 2: High Dimensions and Other Difficulties
Demystifying Causal Interpretations from High-dimensional Potential Outcomes: Applications to Microbiome Data
The Synthetic Instrument: From Sparse Association to Sparse Causation
Can Inverting the ‘Inverse Problem’ in the Inference of Causality Dissolve Difficulties in the Analysis of Causation?
Lunch
Location: FAU College of Business, Rooms OD 102 & OD 103
Session 3: Representation Learning and AI Safety
Interventional Causal Representation Learning
Transportable Representations
James Fox & Ryan Carey University of Oxford
Towards Causal Foundations of Safe AI
Break
Session 4: Estimation in Social Settings
Super-Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effect based on Randomized Controlled Trial Augmented with External Controls or Observational Study
Marginal Structural Models for Network-Level Interventions: The Limiting Variance is Smaller with Estimated Weights
Augmented Balancing Estimators of the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated in Cross-sectional and Panel Designs
Transportation to Hyatt Place Hotel
Free Time
Dinner
Location: Oceans 234 in Deerfield Beach
Breakfast
Location: The Breakfast Bar at the Hyatt Place Hotel
Transportation to Florida Atlantic University College of Business
Session 5: Social Systems and Complex Datasets
Women and the Econometrics of Family Trees
Modeling Macroscopic Causal Processes with Satellite Image Sequences: Applications to Climate Change Adaptation and Economic Development
Automated Social Science: Using LLMs to Identify Causal Relationships in Social Phenomena
Break
Session 6: Disparities, Interference, and Robustness
Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities
Design-Based Inference for Spatial Experiments Under Unknown Interference
Causality-Oriented Robustness: Exploiting General Additive Interventions
Lunch
Location: FAU College of Business, Rooms OD 102 & OD 103
Session 7: Policy and Optimal Learning in Social Settings
Policy Learning with Asymmetric Utilities
Policy Learning Under Biased Sample Selection
Selecting Optimal Candidate Profiles in Adversarial Environments Using Conjoint Analysis
Partial Identification of Optimal Treatment Regimes
Concluding Remarks & Discussion
End of Formal Conference Proceedings
Transportation to Hyatt Place Hotel
Free Time
Informal Dinner
Location: The Hyatt Place Hotel
Event Venue
The 2023 Conference will be hosted by the Florida Atlantic University College of Business in Boca Raton. Discounted hotel rooms have been made available at the Hyatt Place Boca Raton Hotel for registered conference participants. All meals will be provided for registered participants, as well as transportation between FAU and the Hyatt Place Hotel.
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JOURNAL OF CAUSAL INFERENCE
We are very pleased to announce that the Journal of Causal Inference has agreed to publish a special issue comprised of papers from this year’s conference. A selection of papers presented at the conference will be invited for submission to the JCI. Submissions that successfully pass peer-review will be published.