Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place on the 9th floor lecture hall of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia's Manhattanville Campus.
Posters will be viewable throughout both days.
Monday, May 18th, 2020
8:00 am: Breakfast and check-in
8:45 am: Opening remarks, Jacqueline Gottlieb, PhD
9:00 am: Economic Approaches to Information Demand
9:00 am: Yusufcan Masatlioglu, PhD, University of Maryland
9:25 am: Pietro Ortoleva, PhD, Princeton University
9:50 am: Michaela Pagel, PhD, Columbia University
10:15 am: Russel Golman, PhD, Carnegie Mellon
10:40 am: Coffee break
11:10 am: Curiousity and Decision Making
11:10 am: Ming Hsu, PhD, UC Berkeley
11:35 am: Ifat Levy, PhD, Yale University
12:00 pm: Tali Sharot, PhD, University College London
12:25 pm: Lunch and poster session (box lunch provided)
**Poster session will begin at 12:55 pm**
1:55 pm: Learning to Explore
1:55 pm: Kinneret Teodorescu, PhD, Technion
2:20 pm: Catherine Hartley, PhD, NYU
2:45 pm: Coffee break
3:15 pm: Self-generated Thought
3:15 pm: Kalina Christoff, PhD, University of British Columbia
3:40 pm: Jessica Andrews-Hanna, PhD, University of Arizona
4:05 pm: Daniel Schacter, PhD, Harvard University
4:30 pm: Poster Session
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
8:00 am: Breakfast and check-in
9:00 am: Exploration and Curiosity in Machine Learning
9:00 am: Ian Osband, PhD, Google Deep Mind
9:25 am: Daniel Polani, PhD, University of Hertfordshire
9:50 am: Jochen Triesch, PhD, Frankfurt Institute
10:15 am: Coffee break
10:45 am: Neural Mechanisms of Curiosity and Exploration
10:45 am: Benjamin Hayden, PhD, University of Minnesota
11:10 am: Ilya Monosov, PhD, Washington University
11:35 am: Bruno Averbeck, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health
12:00 pm: Lunch and poster session (box lunch provided)
**Poster session will begin at 12:30 pm**
1:00 pm: Breakout panel A
2:00 pm: Breakout panel B
3:00 pm: Psychology of Information Seeking
3:00 pm: Todd Gureckis, PhD, NYU
3:25 pm: Angela Yu, PhD, UC San Diego
3:50 pm: Coffee break
4:20 pm: Curiosity in Attention and Memory
4:20 pm: Joy Geng, PhD, UC Davis
4:45 pm: Floris de Lange, PhD, Donders Institute
5:10 pm: Poster session
Details subject to change.