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
  • Modifying SEIR models to explore the role of average household size in the era of lockdowns and social distancing
• Stefan Engblom and Alexander Medvedev, Uppsala University
  • Bayesian prediction of COVID-19 spread for informed decision making: Practical experiences from Uppsala
• Gökçe Dayanıklı, Princeton University
  • Optimal Incentives to Mitigate Epidemics: A Stackelberg Mean Field Game Approach
• Subhonmesh Bose, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Modeling and Managing The Spread of COVID-19
• Arnab Sarker, MIT
  • Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Mixtures

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
  • Housing Precarity, Eviction, and Inequality in the Wake of COVID-19
• Emily Oster, Brown University
  • COVID-19 and Schools: Dashboard Data
• Adam Berinsky, MIT
  • How to fight misinformation?
• Parag Pathak, MIT
  • Market Design for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources

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
  • Impacts of COVID-19 Interventions: Health, Economics, and Inequality
• Le Xie, Texas A&M University
  • A Cross-Domain Approach to Analyzing the Short-Run Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Electricity Sector
• Hope Johnson, UCLA
  • The Challenges of Creating a Prison Pandemic Database
• Nicholas Ashford, MIT
  • Addressing Inequality After COVID-19

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