August 19-20, 2010

Center for Nonlinear Studies
TA-03, Building 1690
Los Alamos National Lab

Agenda:

An expanded version with talk abstracts is available here.

Santa Fe Institute Segment

MONDAY

8:30 - 9:00 David Wolpert
Workshop Introduction

9:00 - 10:00 Dirk Helbing
Self-Organization and Self-Optimization in Social and Traffic Systems

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 Ozan Candogan (with Asu Ozdaglar, Ishai Menache, and Pablo Parrilo)
Flow Representations of Games: Near Potential Games and Dynamics

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 Naftali Tishby (with Jonathan Rubin and Ohad Shamir)
Robust Optimal Control by Trading Future Information and Value

2:00 - 3:00 Kalmanaje Krishnakumar
Decentralized Control with Human and (Intelligent) Artificial Pilots - Benefits and Potential Pitfalls

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break

3:30 - 4:30 Joel Watson
TBA

4:30 - 5:30 Joe Halpern
Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Fault Tolerance and Implementation with Cheap Talk

7-9 Dinner at Los Mayas restaurant

 

TUESDAY

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 Jessica Flack
Inductive Game Theory and Collective Conflict Dynamics

9:30 - 10:00 Cofee break

10:00 - 11:00 Simon DeDeo
Boltzmann Solution Concepts, epsilon Logic, and the Emergence of Timescales in an Animal Society

11:00 - 12:00 Peyton Young (with Bary S. R. Pradelski)
Efficiency and Equilibrium in Trial and Error Learning

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Brian Rogers
Emergence of Cooperation in Anonymous Social Networks through Social Capital

2:30 - 3:30 David Wolpert (with James Bono)
Solution Concepts That are Distributions over Profiles Rather Than Sets of Profiles

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break

4:00 - 5:00 Kevin Leyton-Brown
Scaling Up Game Theory: Representation and Reasoning with Action Graph Games

5:00 - 6:00 Haimonti Dutta
Modeling Load-Shifts and Failures in Feeder Networks: Progress and Challenges

 

WEDNESDAY

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 Michael Chertkov
Smart Grid Project at LANL and Related Challenges in Learning and Games

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee break

10:00 - 11:00 Ritchie Lee (with David Wolpert)
Using Game Theory to Influence Pilot Behavior During Near Mid-Air Collisions

11:00 - 12:00 David Leslie
Controlled Learning through Taxation

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Spotlight summaries of CNLS talks (11 ten minute talks)

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break

3:30 - 4:30 Michael Littman (with Michael Wunder and Monica Babes)
Classes of Multiagent Q-learning Dynamics with epsilon-greedy Exploration

4:30 - 5:30 Sujay Sanghavi
Belief Propagation for Networks

 

 

Center for Nonlinear Studies Segment

THURSDAY

7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00 Robert Ecke
Introduction to CNLS workshop segment

9:00 - 10:00 Ilan Kroo
TBA

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 Nils Bertschinger (with Juergen Jost and Eckehard Olbrich)
Autonomy and Intentional Action

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:30 James Wright
Beyond Equilibrium: Predicting Human Behavior in Normal Form Games

1:30 - 2:30 Frans Oliehoek
Exploiting Structure in Collaborative Games with Private Information

2:30 - 3:00 Coffee break

3:00 - 4:00 Eckehard Olbrich (with N. Bertschinger, A. Kabalak, J.Jost)
Communication in Systems of Interacting Strategic Agents

4:00 - 5:00 Stefan Bieniawski
Exploring the Role of Health-Based Adaptation in Multi-Vehicle Missions Using Indoor Flight Experiments

 

FRIDAY

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 Juergen Jost
Some Thoughts on the Issue of Rationality

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30 Brendan Tracey (with David Wolpert and Juan Alonso)
Using Supervised Learning to Improve Monte Carlo Integral Estimation

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Dusan Stipanovic Accomplishing Multiple Objectives by Multiple Agents using Convergent Approximations of the Min and Max Functions

2:00 - 2:30 Coffee break

2:30 - 3:30 Matteo Marsili (with A. Kirman, N. Hanaki and P. Pin)
Ownership by Luck

3:30-4:00 Workshop Wrapup

 

 

Working Group Week

Monday, August 23
Half day of presentations on Lab interests

Russell Bent
Online Stochastic Optimization for Controllers

Aric Hagberg
Problems in Cybersecurity

Misha Chertkov
Problems in Smart-Grid Communication and Control

Alexander Gutfraind
N-goalie Soccer in International Security

James Bono
A Predictive Theory of Unstructured Bargaining

Feng Pan
Network Interdiction

Brent Daniel
Agent based modeling

Tuesday - Thursday, August 24-26
Tutorials and Working Group Meetings

Friday, August 27
Wrap-up discussions