Causal Science Conference 2023
Main content start
Join the Stanford Causal Science Center (SC²) on Thursday, November 16, 2023, for a one-day conference at Fisher Conference Center in Arrillaga Alumni Center.
The program consists of presentations and posters by Stanford graduate students and postdoctoral scholars working on a breadth of causal science topics, from methodology to applications. This convening offers an opportunity for the community to learn more about the breadth of work happening at Stanford, to forge new connections, and to help shape a path for the future success of SC².
Agenda
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome | Guido Imbens |
| 9:15-10:15 | Theme: Econometrics | Chair: Maya Rossin-Slater |
| Amar Venugopal | Double and Single Descent in Causal Inference with an Application to High-Dimensional Synthetic Control | |
| Erik Sverdrup | Qini Curves for Multi-Armed Treatment Rules | |
| Junting Duan | Causal inference for large dimensional non-stationary factor models with two-way endogenous treatment | |
| Timothy Sudijono | Inference for Synthetic Controls via Refined Placebo Tests | |
| 10:15-10:35 | Break | |
| 10:35-11:35 | Theme: Applications | Chair: Dominik Rothenhaeusler |
| Anna Lukkarinen | Do sustainability signals attract crowdinvestors? Evidence from a randomized field experiment | |
| Felix Michalik | The effect of herpes zoster vaccination on the occurrence of deaths due to dementia in England and Wales | |
| Chi Heem Wong | Causal inference in supply chain management | |
| Zachary Kaufman | A Data-Driven Approach to Climate Change Attribution: Inferring Causal Mechanisms in Observation-Based Time Series | |
| 11:35-12:35 | Lunch | |
| 12:35-1:35 | Theme: Emerging Methods | Chair: Vasilis Syrgkanis |
| Yuchen Hu | A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Sample Selection in Randomized Experiments | |
| Katherine Tsai | Proxy Methods for Domain Adaptation | |
| Yash Chandak | Adaptive Instrument Design for Indirect Experiments | |
| Maggie Wang | Designing Randomized Experiments for Behavioral Interventions Under Interference and Context-Dependence | |
| 1:35-1:55 | Break | |
| 1:55-2:55 | Theme: Theory | Chair: Yiqing Xu |
| Sadegh Shirani | Causal Message-passing: A General Method for Experimentation Under Network Interference | |
| Asher Spector | Model-Agnostic Covariate-Assisted Inference on Partially Identified Causal Effects | |
| Hui Lan | Causal Q-Aggregation for CATE Model Selection | |
| Joy He-Yueya | Resource-efficient Pure Exploration for Contextual Bandits | |
| 2:55-3:00 | Closing | |
| 3:00-5:00 | Poster Session and Reception |