Dear all,
The next COMSOC Seminar will take place this Thursday at 15:30, and the
speaker on this occasion is yours truly. I'm including the abstract at
the end of this message and hope to see you on Thursday.
As always, for more information on the COMSOC Seminar please consult
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/.
All the best,
Ulle
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Speaker: Ulle Endriss (ILLC)
Title: Analysis of Matching Mechanisms via SAT Solving
Date and time: Thurday 23 January 2020, 15:30
Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
Abstract: Matching is a research area at the intersection of game theory
and social choice theory that is concerned with the design of mechanisms
for pairing up agents belonging to two different groups, such as job
seekers and companies. In this talk I will explain how to use ideas from
mathematical logic (model theory) and computational logic (SAT solving)
to obtain impossibility theorems regarding the design of matching
mechanisms that satisfy certain intuitively appealing properties (e.g.,
regarding the stability and fairness of outcomes).
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Ulle Endriss
ILLC, University of Amsterdam
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/
Dear all,
Happy new year! The first COMSOC Seminar of the year will be given by
Bernhard von Stengel from the LSE, next week on Thursday at 16:00.
Bernhard will talk about "Game Theory and Politics". This is a first
version of a talk he is developing for a general-interest audience, so
should be fun and easily accessible to everyone (expect lots of Brexit
puns and the like). I'm including the abstract below and hope to see you
next week.
As always, for more information on the COMSOC Seminar please consult
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/seminar/.
All the best,
Ulle
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Speaker: Bernhard von Stengel (London)
Title: Game Theory and Politics
Date and time: Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00
Location: F1.15, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
Abstract:
Game theory is the 'science of interaction'. This talk will explain some
insights of game theory and apply them to current politics.
Of course politicians play games. They offer cheap promises that they
think they don't have to fulfil. Such as a "simple" in-out referendum on
EU membership in Britain. That game plan went wrong. Game theory may
have helped, with tools for thinking ahead and concepts of strategy, to
counter the wishful thinking that seems to drive such decisions. Game
theory can also help explain the incentive problems of climate change
and reasons for democratic deadlock. A game-theoretic analysis shows the
importance of the rules of the game, for example in electoral systems.
The aim of the talk is to highlight some uses and mis-uses of game
theory and decision theory with examples from politics, for a general
audience.
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Ulle Endriss
ILLC, University of Amsterdam
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/
