Game Theory Spring 2008

Information on the Game Theory seminar is kept here. This is an informal reading group meeting Tuesdays 15:00-16:30 in E012 on the Kirchberg Campus.

Presentations

Presentations are Tuesdays 15:00-16:30 in E012 on the Kirchberg campus.

Date Presenter Outline
March 5 Organization, assignment of book sections to participants
March 11 Sasa Brief review of probability theory, Chapter 1, first half, Slides
April 1 Sasa Chapter 1, second half
April 8 Sjouke Chapter 2, first third
April 15 Sjouke, Jun Chapter 2, second third
April 22 Jun Chapter 2, last third, Slides
May 6 Ton Chapter 3, first quarter, Slides
May 13 Mathijs Chapter 3, second and third quarter, Slides
May 20 Mathijs much of the remainder of Chapter 3
May 27 Davide Auctions (3.11) and beginning of Chapter 4, Slides
June 3 Marija First half of Chapter 6 of Martin J. Osborne's Introduction to Game Theory
June 10 Davide Second half of Chapter 6 of Martin J. Osborne's Introduction to Game Theory Room change: E-212, Slides
June 24 Yan First half of Chapter 10 of Martin J. Osborne's Introduction to Game Theory Room change: E-212
July 8 Yan Second half of Chapter 10 of Martin J. Osborne's Introduction to Game Theory Room change: E-212

Reading material

Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict, by Roger B. Myerson (Harvard University Press, 1991). We've switched to A Course in Game Theory by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein.

Presentation notes

The latest available pdf of the presentation notes can be downloaded here. The latex source of the notes is under subversion.

Contact

For questions, comments, subversion access etc. contact Sasa.