Monday, May 21, 2018: Pre-Conference Optional Workshops

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1 Monday, May 21, 2018: Pre-Conference Optional Workshops 8:30am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:30pm Influence Functions and Machine Learning in Causal Inference - Half Day Short Course - Monday Morning - Dietrich College, Assistant Professor of Statistics Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon University Room A301 Observational Studies with Multilevel Data - Half Day Short Course Monday Afternoon Sam Pimentel - UC Berkeley Lindsay Page - University of Pittsburgh Luke Keele - Penn State University Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon University Room A301 Graphical Causal Models: Representation and Search - Monday Full Day Course Richard Scheines - Dean of Dietrich College Peter Spirtes Professor of Philosophy, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Science Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon University Room 1206 Monday Evening: Junior Researcher Mixer The Ace Hotel 5:00pm-7:00pm 120 S Whitfield St. Pittsburgh, PA Bus transportation will be provided to and from the event. Pick-up at The Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center 4:30pm Pick-up at CMU Hamburg Hall 4:45pm Drop off at The Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center approximately 7:15pm

2 Tuesday, May 22, 2018: Conference Day 1 Jared L. Cohon University Center, Carnegie Mellon Campus am Breakfast: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor 1 8:30-10am Estimating average causal effects under general interference, with application to a social network experiment Beth Ann Griffin Peter Aronow & Cyrus Samii, with discussants Beth Ann Griffin 10-10:30 Coffee Break: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor 2a When groups are randomized to treatment and control Luke Keele Hyunseung Kang, Luke Keele, Lindsay Page, Cyrus Samii Lindsay Page 2b Causal inference and learning from stochastic processes using graphical models Dan Malinsky Dan Malinsky, Alex Tank, Vanessa Didelez, Soren Wengel Mogensen Alex Volfovsky Noon-1 Lunch provided: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor

3 3a Causal inference with structured data Stefan Wager Elena Manresa, Panos Toulis, Stefan Wager, Whitney Newey Chen Yanover 3b Advancement of causal inference methods in public policy analysis Bing Han Lane Burgette, Matt Cefalu, Avi Feller, Dan McCaffrey, Michael Robbins Claude Setodji 2:30-3pm Coffee Break: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor 4a 3-4:30pm Making sense of causal effects in multilevel settings Jared Murray Luke Miratrix, Avi Feller, Jennifer Hill, Jared Murray Lindsay Page 4b 3-4:30pm Causal inference with interference Zhichao Jiang Dean Eckles, Naoki Egami, Xinran Li, Zhichao Jiang Ashley Naimi

4 5a 4:30-6pm Causal inference in high dimensions Alex Luedtke,, Betsy Ogburn, Jamie Robins 5b 4:30-6pm Addressing unmeasured confounding using negative controls Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, David Madigan, Wang Miao, Xu Shi Dan McCaffrey 6-7:30pm Poster Session, Award Announcement: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor (drinks & food provided)

5 Wednesday, May 23, 2018: Conference Day 2 Jared L. Cohon University Center, Carnegie Mellon Campus am Breakfast: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor 6a 8:30-9am Tom Ten Have Session & Award Announcement: "Identifying and estimating principal causal effects in multi-site trials" Lo-Hua Yuan Amelia Haviland 6b 9-10am Biometrics Invited session on variable selection: Outcome adaptive lasso: Variable selection for causal inference Susan Shortreed & Ashkan Ertefaie, with discussants 10-10:30 Coffee Break: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor

6 7a Causal inference under interference David Choi Cosma Shalizi, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Alex Volfovsky, Peter Aronow Claude Setodji 7b Data fusion in causal inference Shu Yang Nilanjan Chatterjee, Elias Bareinboim, Shu Yang, Xiaoli Meng Dan McCaffrey Noon-1pm Lunch provided: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor 8a New advancements in sensitivity analysis of observational studies Qingyuan Zhao Peng Ding, Colin Fogarty, Qingyuan Zhao, Jamie Robins Beth Ann Griffin 8b Bayesian nonparametrics in causal inference Chanmin Kim P Richard Hahn, Mike Daniels, Peter Mueller, Stefan Wager Alex Volfovsky 2:30-2:45pm Break: Rangos Hall 1 & 2, 2nd Floor

7 9a 2:45-4:15pm Causal inference with high-dimensional covariates Alex D Amour Mark van der Laan, Lihua Lei, Alex D Amour, Fredrik Johansson Ashley Naimi 9b 2:45-4:15pm Causal questions in crime and the law Jacqueline Mauro Jacqueline Mauro, Razieh Nabi and Ilya Shpitser, Maria Cuellar, Aurelie Ouss Clark Glymour