Faculty from the Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) organized the 2017 Linde/SISL Network Science Workshop on August 17–18 at Caltech, around the topics of misspecification, robustness, causality, and the design of experiments. Invited speakers included Sylvain Chassang (New York University), In-Koo Cho (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Geoffroy de Clippel (Brown University), Ignacio Esponda (University of California, Santa Barbara), Kristof Madarasz (London School of Economics and David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah), Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi University), Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Pablo Schenone (Arizona State University), and Philipp Strack (University of California, Berkeley). Talk titles are available on the conference website.
The workshop provided an intense and intimate environment, allowing the speakers and other participants to engage in a two-day conversation focused on the latest research on the designated topics. The conference drew a great number of participants, not only from within Caltech, but also from UCLA, USC, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara, and across a number of fields (economic theory, computer science, political economy, and philosophy). The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences funded the workshop, through its ongoing support for SISL.