This is an open online alternative to seminars cancelled due to the COVID-19 that will cover all fields from market design. It is co-organized by Olivier Bos (Paris 2), Nicolas Fugger (Cologne), Vitali Gretschko (ZEW), Helene Mass (Bonn), Marion Ott (ZEW), Martin Pollrich (Bonn) and Nora Szech (KIT). Talks are schedule to take place bi-weekly… Read More The Virtual Market Design Seminar

Game theory groups in Israel and France are running a joint biweekly international zoom seminar series. It is co-organized by Xavier Venel (PSE-Université Paris 1), Ziv Hellman (Bar-Ilan University), and Eilon Solan and Galit Ashkenazi-Golan (Tel-Aviv University) The next seminar is April 20th, 2020. To receive information about future seminars add your email address in this… Read More International Online Game Theory Seminar

Bezalel Peleg was born in the town of Afula located in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. According to the 1931 census, Afula contained 874 inhabitants and 236 houses. Peleg grew with town, leaving it for the Hebrew University by the time its population had almost quadrupled. At the University he came to… Read More In Memoriam: Bezalel Peleg (1936-2019)

Martin Shubik, he of the Shapley-Shubik assignment game, and the Shapley-Shubik power index passed away on Wednesday August 24, 2018. As he passed into the `seventh age’ of man he suffered a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and atrophy (wasting). Born in England, he was the middle of three remarkable children. His… Read More In Memoriam: Martin Shubik (1926-2018)

The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society elected Yair Tauman as the President and Igal Milchtaich as the Executive Officer for the period 2018–2020.

David M. Kreps, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, familiar names to members of the Society, were awarded the US National Academy of Sciences John J. Carty award for the advancement of science. The citation reads, in part: Kreps and Wilson provided a framework, known as sequential equilibrium, for modeling dynamic effects in economics. All three… Read More Kreps, Milgrom and Wilson win John J. Carty Award

(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 21 September 2017) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, According to the bylaws of our Society, one of the duties of the Council is to vote for the Fellows of the Society. The Fellows of the Society are a group… Read More New Fellows of the Society

(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 12 July 2017) Dear member of the Game Theory Society, The elections for the replacement of 12 members of the GTS Council have taken place, and the following candidates have been elected: Yeon-Koo Che John Duggan Lars Ehlers Faruk Gul Akihiko Matsui Wojciech… Read More Council Elections 2017

(posted by Rakesh Vohra, 21 February 2017) Kenneth Joseph Arrow, a member of the Society’s advisory board since its foundation, passed away February 21, 2017. If a scholar’s contributions are to be judged by the amount of work he or she created for others, then Arrow was a full employment act. Born in 1921, he… Read More In Memoriam: Kenneth J. Arrow (1921-2017)