FORC 2020 will take place virtually (on Zoom) on June 1st and 2nd, 2020. All times below are in Eastern Daylight Time (i.e. Boston/New York/Philadelphia time).
Registration is FREE but mandatory (Zoom links will be sent to registered email addresses). Register here before May 28: https://forms.gle/vgTzkMS6jLN9xPud8
Day 1: June 1, 2020.
10:20-10:30 Opening Remarks
10:30-11:20 Keynote Talk: Adrian Weller, University of Cambridge (Session Chair: Suresh Venkatasubramanian)
11:20-12:00 Session 1 (Session Chair: Adam Smith)
- Aloni Cohen and Kobbi Nissim. Towards Formalizing the GDPR’s Notion of Singling Out
- Charlotte Peale, Omer Reingold and Katrina Ligett. Bounded-Leakage Differential Privacy
- Moni Naor and Neil Vexler. Can Two Walk Together: Privacy Enhancing Methods and Preventing Tracking of Users
- Badih Ghazi, Ravi Kumar, Pasin Manurangsi and Rasmus Pagh. Private Counting from Anonymous Messages: Near-Optimal Accuracy with Vanishing Communication Overhead
- Badih Ghazi, Noah Golowich, Ravi Kumar, Rasmus Pagh and Ameya Velingker. On the Power of Multiple Anonymous Messages
12:00-1:30 Virtual Lunch/Informal Discussion/Networking
1:30-2:20 Keynote Talk: Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania (Session Chair: Rachel Cummings)
2:20-3:05 Session 2 (Session Chair: Nicole Immorlica)
- Lee Cohen, Zachary Lipton and Yishay Mansour. Efficient candidate screening under multiple tests and implications for fairness
- Cynthia Dwork, Christina Ilvento, Guy Rothblum and Pragya Sur. Abstracting Fairness: Oracles, Metrics, and Interpretability
- Christina Ilvento. Metric Learning for Individual Fairness
- Kevin Stangl and Avrim Blum. Recovering from Biased Data: Can Fairness Constraints Improve Accuracy?
End Day 1
Day 2: June 2, 2020.
10:30-11:20 Keynote Talk: Patricia Williams, Northeastern University (Session Chair: Cynthia Dwork)
11:20-12:00 Session 3 (Session Chair: Steven Wu)
- Arpita Biswas, Siddharth Barman, Amit Deshpande and Amit Sharma. Inframarginality Audit of Group-Fairness
- Christopher Jung, Sampath Kannan and Neil Lutz. Service in Your Neighborhood: Fairness in Center Location
- Cynthia Dwork, Christina Ilvento and Meena Jagadeesan. Individual Fairness in Pipelines
- Hao Wang, Hsiang Hsu, Mario Diaz and Flavio Calmon. To Split or Not to Split: The Impact of Disparate Treatment in Classification
12:00-1:30 Virtual Lunch/Informal Discussion/Networking
1:30-2:20 Keynote Talk: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University. (Session Chair: Michael Kearns)
2:20-3:05 Session 4 (Session Chair: Guy Rothblum)
- Ashesh Rambachan and Jonathan Roth. Bias In, Bias Out? Evaluating the Folk Wisdom
- Mark Braverman and Sumegha Garg. The Role of Randomness and Noise in Strategic Classification
- Sergei Mikhalishchev and Andrei Matveenko. Attentional Role of Quota Implementation
- Roy Dong, Erik Miehling and Cedric Langbort. Protecting Consumers Against Personalized Pricing: A Stopping Time Approach
3:05-3:15 Closing Remarks.
End of Conference
