Monday, November 25, 2013

Celebrate Marilda Sotomayor at her 70th birthday conference in Brazil, July 25-31, 2014

Here's the conference website, which says in part:

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the SÃO PAULO SCHOOL OF ADVANCED SCIENCES ON GAME THEORY – INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS OF THE GAME THEORY SOCIETY, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Marilda Sotomayor. It will be held at the University of São Paulo, from July 25 to July 31, 2014.
The workshop will offer the participants the opportunity to interact with some of the most productive researchers in Game Theory. The week-long event will consist of mini-courses, conferences and contributed papers sessions, which will be complemented with a round table for discussions on themes of interest of the participants. The courses will start at the introductory level and will reach the frontiers of current research.
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Mini-Courses
  • MARKET DESIGN - ALVIN ROTH (University Stanford)
  • SOCIAL CHOICE AND FAIR DIVISION - HERVÉ MOULIN (University of Glasgow)
  • INFORMATION THEORY - DAVID PEREZ-CASTRILLO (University Autonoma de Barcelona)
  • COOPERATIVE GAMES - ROBERTO SERRANO (Brown University)
  • STOCHASTIC GAMES: ALGORITHMS AND EXISTENCE - T. E. S. RAGHAVAN (University Chicago)
  • INTRODUCTION TO AUCTION THEORY - Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
    • CLUBS, COALITIONS AND NETWORKS - Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt Univ.)
All the courses will be ministered in parallel, except for “Market Design”.
Plenary Lecturers
  • AUMANN, ROBERT: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
  • HART, SERGIU: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • MASKIN, ERIC: Princeton University, USA
  • NASH, JOHN: Princeton University, USA
  • ROTH, ALVIN: Stanford University, USA.
  • SCHMEIDLER, DAVID: Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.
  • SOTOMAYOR, MARILDA: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.



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