We are pleased to announce that following our elections and as of August 1st 2024, Stephen Morris is the new executive vice-president of the society. Gabrielle Demange is the new president of the society, while Michihiro Kandori is the new past-president and Matthew Jackson retired of his role of past-president. Frank Thuijsman has been reappointed… Read More Election results

  New Membership Registration System for the Game Theory Society For Existing Members (2019-2023): If you have been a member during 2019-2023, your account information has been sent to you via email from gts-dacs@maastrichtuniversity.nl. Please follow the instructions in that email to activate or renew your membership. If you did not receive the email, please… Read More Membership

Harvey prize nominations are open:  2022-2023 for “Outstanding contribution to peace in the Middle East, or to the economy or society” 2023-2024 for “Science and Technology” More information on the Harvey prize website

The Kalai Prize 2024 for the best paper at the interface of game theory and computer science is awarded to: The Unreasonable Fairness of Maximum Nash Welfare by Ioannis Caragiannis, Professor of Computer Science, Aarhus University David Kurokawa, Software engineer, Google Herve Moulin, Donald J Robertson Professor of Economics, University of Glasgow Ariel Procaccia, Gordon… Read More Kalai Prize 2024

Submissions to the 7th World Congress of The Game Theory Society are now open.  The world congress will take place at Peking University, Beijing, China, from August 19th to 23rd, 2024. Keynote speakers are: Michihiro Kandori, University of Tokyo (President’s talk) Gabrielle Demange, Paris School of Economics (President-elect’s talk) Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New… Read More 7th World Congress of the Game Theory Society

Professor Christoph Kuzmics has started a blog devoted to Game Theory. The intended audience is students. 

David Schmeidler, who served as President of the Society from 2014 to 2016, passed away on March 17th, 2022. In addition to his service to the Society, David was an important contributor to the advancement of the field. A two part summary of these contributions can be found here. Part I, written by Eric Maskin,… Read More In Memoriam: David Schmeidler (1939-2022)

A fortnightly seminar series organized by  a group of contest researchers from Beijing, Sydney, Singapore, Munich, Bath, Cincinnati and Los Angeles..  The time will shift west about eight time zones each week, with the local coordinator inviting, introducing and leading the discussion. Register here.

The seminars will be fortnightly on Fridays at noon EST beginning January 22nd, 2021. Interested individuals are invited to join their Google Group/Mailing List (https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/games-decisions-networks-seminar).   For any additional information and links to attend the talks, please visit the seminar webpage.   For information you can contact the organizers see also twitter: @Games_Seminar.

The stage is the 1980s and game theory is fulfilling von Neuman and Morgenstern’s prophecy, reshaping all corners of economics: cooperative games for the Core Equivalence theorem and two-sided matching, noncooperative ones for the optimal design of auctions and a new strategic theory of industrial organisation, etc..  But Ehud is aware that more, much more,… Read More Changing of the Guard at GEB