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New virtual seminar series: Games, Decisions, and Networks

  • 1.  New virtual seminar series: Games, Decisions, and Networks

    Posted 01-16-2021 15:32

    Apologies for cross-posting
    Dear colleagues,
    We are pleased to announce the start of a new virtual seminar series on "Games, Decisions, and Networks". The series aims at bringing together researchers working on foundations and applications of games theory, decision theory, and networks from computer science, control, economics, and operations research. 
     
    The advisory board for the series comprises Asu Ozdaglar (MIT), Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia), Drew Fudenberg (MIT), Eva Tardos (Cornell), Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford), Ramesh Johari (Stanford), and Tamer Başar (UIUC). 
     
    The first talk will be given by Costantinos Daskalakis (MIT) on January 22nd at noon ET, titled "Equilibrium Computation and the Foundations of Deep Learning". Upcoming speakers include
     
    - Rakesh Vohra (Upenn)
    - Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge)
    - Aaron Roth (Upenn)
    - Aislinn Bohren (Upenn)
    - Jason Marden (UCSB)
     
    and more to be added!
     
    The seminars will tentatively be biweekly on Fridays. Please feel free to join our Google Group/Mailing List (https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/games-decisions-networks-seminar). For additional information and links to attend the talks, please visit the seminar webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/gamesdecisionsnetworks.
     
    If you have any questions, you can contact us at: gamesdecisionsnetworksseminar@gmail.com, and at twitter: @Games_Seminar.
     
    Please feel free to disseminate this announcement.
     
    Thank you for your interest from the organizing committee:
    Yang Cai (Yale), Ozan Candogan (Chicago), Nika Haghtalab (Berkeley), Francesca Parise (Cornell), Muhammed Sayin (MIT), Kaiqing Zhang (UIUC).


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    Ozan Candogan
    University of Chicago
    https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ozan-candogan
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