Workshop on Discovery of causal structure in high dimensions

June 25-27, 2018

Program

 

Monday, June 25, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


09:30 - 10:15
Yang Ning
(Cornell University )
High-Dimensional propensity score estimation via covariate balancing
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15
Denis Talbot
(Université Laval)
A Bayesian causal effect estimation algorithm for adjusting for confounding
Abstract
11:15 - 12:00
Arvid Sjölander
(Karolinska Institutet)
The case-time-control design. Basic theory and extensions
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15
Thomas S. Richardson
(University of Washington)
Structural nested mean models for binary treatments and outcomes
Abstract
14:15 - 15:00
Ali Shojaie
(University of Washington)
The reduced PC-Algorithm: Improved causal structure learning in high dimensions
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:45
Nicolai Meinshausen
(ETH Zürich)
Distributional robustness from a causal point of view
Abstract

 

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:15
Peter Schulam
(Johns Hopkins University)
Reliable decision-support using counterfactual models
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15
Julian Wolfson
(University of Minnesota)
Covariate selection with group lasso and doubly robust estimation of causal effects
Abstract
11:15 - 12:00
Susan Shortreed
(Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute)
Variable selection for causal inference: outcome-adaptive lasso
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15
Eric Laber
(NC State University )
Optimal treatment allocations in space and time for online control of an emerging infectious disease
Abstract
14:15 - 15:00
James Robins
(Harvard School of Public Health)
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:45
Min-ge Xie
(Rutgers University)
Uncertainty quantification of treatment regime in precision medicine by confidence distributions
Abstract

 

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:15
Guido W. Imbens
(Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Matrix completion methods for causal panel data models
Abstract
10:15 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15
Stefan Wager
(Stanford University)
Quasi-oracle estimation of heterogeneous causal effects
Abstract
11:15 - 12:00
Walter Dempsey
(Harvard University)
The stratified micro-randomized trial design: sample size considerations for testing nested causal effects of time-varying treatments
Abstract
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15
Michael Rosenblum
(Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Estimating the protective effect of longitudinal drug concentration in pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention
Abstract
14:15 - 15:00
Mireille Schnitzer
(Université de Montréal)
Longitudinal variable selection in causal inference with collaborative targeted minimum loss-based estimation
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee