Day 1
16 July
0900 Opening Remarks
0915 Keynote
William Corvey, DARPA
Graphs and the Grounding Problem
1015 Break
1030 Session 1: Causal Inference and Experimentation
Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University
Neighborhood Adaptive Estimators for Causal Inference
under Network Interference
Simon Wein, University of Regensburg
Graph Neural Networks for Causal Inference in Brain Networks
Damon Centola, University of Pennsylvania
The Science of Structural Intelligence
1200 Group Photo
1215 Lunch
1345 Session 2: Social Media Misinformation and Ethics
David Rand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs through Dialogues with AI
Jennifer Allen, NYU Stern School of Business
Quantifying the Impact of Misinformation and
Vaccine-Skeptical Content
Juniper Lovato, University of Vermont
Rethinking Consent in Socially-Networked Environments
with Models of Distributed Consent
1515 Break
1530 Poster Session
1700 Break / Check-in
1730 Reception
1900 Banquet
Day 2
17 July
0845 Keynote
Leman Akoglu, Carnegie Mellon University
Graph Generation via Autoregressive Diffusion
0945 Break
1000 Session 3: Generative Graph Models
Vagelis Papalexakis, University of California, Riverside
Generating Low-Rank Graphs
Bryan Perozzi, Google
Giving a Voice to Your Graph:
Representing Structured Data for LLMs
1100 Break
1115 Session 3: Generative Graph Models (continued)
Benjamin Miller, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Complex Network Effects on the Robustness of
Graph Convolutional Networks
Wengong Jin, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Deep Generative Models for Drug Discovery
1215 Lunch
1330 Session 4: Emerging Applications
Elenna Dugundji, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Predicting Traffic Intensity with Spatio-Temporal
Graph Neural Networks: A Case Study during
Road Network Maintenance
Teddy Koker, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Higher-Order Equivariant Neural Networks for
Charge Density Prediction in Materials
Sutanay Choudhury, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scaling up Multi-Agentic Reasoning Systems
1500 Adjourn