Agenda

The workshop is structured to encourage discussions between speakers and among all participants, in an effort to spark progress and future collaborations. Sessions will therefore include short research presentations as well as panel discussions involving all speakers.

The agenda is in Eastern Standard Time.

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9:30 – 9:35  Opening

9:35 – 11:00  Panel session I: Controlling the Pandemic: Testing, Predicting, and Advising Policy
                      Moderators: Ali Jadbabaie, Paolo Bertolotti and Arnab Sarker

• • • Kimon Drakopoulos, University of Southern California
      
    • Fernando Paganini, Universidad ORT Uruguay
    • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, IIT Hyderabad
    • Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi, MIT

11:00 – 11:15  Break

11:15 – 12:30  Contributed Talks I – (Please see here for details on talk titles and co-authors)
                       Chairs: Emma Tegling and Dalton Jones

• • • Paul Dempsey, Dazult
      
    • Stefan Engblom and Alexander Medvedev, Uppsala University
    • Gökçe Dayanıklı, Princeton University
    • Subhonmesh Bose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Arnab Sarker, MIT

12:30 – 1:30  Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:00  Panel Session II: Disparate Impacts of the Pandemic: Equity and Economic Challenges 
                     Moderators: Noelle Selin, Poushali Maji and Marie-Laure Charpignon

• • • Karen Chapple, UC Berkeley
    • Emily Oster, Brown University
    • Adam Berinsky, MIT
    • Parag Pathak, MIT

3:00-3:30    Break

3:30 – 4:30  Contributed Talks II – (Please see here for details on talk titles and co-authors)
                     Chairs: Simon Johnson and Sarah Fay

• • • X. Flora Meng, MIT
    • Le Xie, Texas A&M University
    • Hope Johnson, UCLA
    • Nicholas Ashford, MIT

4:30 – 4:45  Closing Remarks
                     Munther Dahleh, Noelle Selin, Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi