Call for abstracts

Calling on all researchers who study causality, run experiments or perform observational studies in the presence of networks!

Networked Causal Inference and Design of Experiments Symposium at NetSci 2018 and the University of Chicago Center in Paris.

Submissions will be accepted until the workshop is full. Those submitting by April 9th will receive a decision by April 15th. Later submissions will be considered on a rolling basis.

1. Overview

We are happy to announce the call for abstracts (for contributed talks and posters) for the first ever symposium on Networked Causal Inference and Design of Experiments at NetSci 2018 in Paris. The symposium will be held on June 11th and June 12th, 2018 and will feature invited and contributed talks, a poster session and discussion panels on the future of networks, causal inference and experimental design. All attendees of the first day of the symposium must be registered for the NetSci2018 conference in order to attend---the second day will be held off site and only requires an RSVP.

2. Call for abstracts

We invite abstracts of new and/or previously published work for contributed talks and posters to take place at the symposium. We invite theoreticians, methodologists, applies scientists and all others interested in how networks affect our inferences. Potential topics include:

• Foundations of causal inference with networks
• Disentangling homophily and contagion in theory and practice
• Detectability limits for causal effects
• Machine learning tools for causal inference
• Network sampling (e.g. respondent driven sampling)
• Efficient inference algorithms
• Model assisted design of experiments
• Visualization tools for experimental design
• Social networks as a vehicle for causality (e.g. peer effects, herd immunity)
• Novel application domains (e.g. models, tools, and empirical results)

Submissions will be accepted until the workshop is full. Those submitting by April 9th will receive a decision by April 15th. Later submissions will be considered on a rolling basis.

3. Submission instructions

Abstracts should be at most two pages, including title, figures and references. All abstracts will be considered for contributed talks and for posters.

Submit at this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=causalnetsci2018

4. Key dates

April 9, 2018: early abstract submission deadline

April 15, 2018: early notification of acceptance

June 11, 2018: First day of symposium at NetSci2018

June 12, 2018: Second day of symposium at the University of Chicago Center in Paris

5. Invited speakers

Eric Auerbach, Northwestern

David Choi, CMU

Forrest Crawford, Yale

Dean Eckles, MIT

Hyunseung Kang, Wisconsin

Michael Leung, USC

Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Harvard

Karl Rohe, Wisconsin

Ilya Shpitser, JHU

6. Organizers

Alexander Volfovsky, Duke

Elizabeth Ogburn, JHU

Daniel Sussman, BU

Panos Toulis, University of Chicago