(posted May 24, 2015 by Rakesh Vohra) On Saturday May 23rd, 2015, a taxi bearing John Forbes Nash and Alicia Larde went out of control and hit a guard rail. Both were thrown from the vehicle and met their deaths. Nash was 86 and Larde was 82. Nash is survived by two sons, John Charles… Read More John F. Nash and his wife Alicia Larde killed in car crash on May 23, 2015

On March 25th of this year the Norwegian Academy of Sciences announced that John Nash along with Louis Nirenberg were awarded the Abel prize in Mathematics. The prize is named in honor of Niels Hendrik Abel, whose name graces commutative groups (with a pun involving grapes) and certain integrals and functions in the complex plane… Read More 2015 Abel prize awarded to John F. Nash and Louis Nirenberg

Alex Frug, a Ph.D. student in Economics at Tel Aviv University, is the winner of the 2015 Maschler Prize. The Michael B. Maschler Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Israeli chapter of the Game Theory Society to an outstanding research student in game theory and related topics in Israel. See the Maschler prize… Read More Award of the 2015 Michael B. Maschler Prize of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

posted by Rakesh Vohra, 27 January 2015 Harold Kuhn passed away July 2nd, 2014. Members of the Society will recognize the name because of the integral role he played in the development of Game Theory. Robert Aumann, former president of the Society, writes: “One can’t call him game theory’s father and mother – those were… Read More In Memoriam: Harold W. Kuhn (1925-2014)

Congratulations to Jean Tirole for receiving The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014 “for his analysis of market power and regulation”. Jean Tirole, who was the Game Theory Society’s Oskar Morgenstern Lecturer at the 2008 Congress of the Society, has been awarded the 2014 Nobel memorial prize in Economics.… Read More Congratulations

(posted April 9, 2014) The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society elected Abraham Neymanas the President for the years 2014-2016, and re-elected Eilon Solan as the Executive Officer for a second (and last) term.

(posted April 9, 2014) Try out the Game Theory Explorer software for the interactive creation and equilibrium analysis of (currently two-player) games in extensive and strategic form. See also our resources on algorithms for game theory; further suggestions welcome!

(mailed to GTS members by Roger Myerson, President of the Game Theory Society on Monday, 19 August 2013) Dear members of the Game Theory Society, the Fifth World Congress of the Game Theory Society is scheduled for Sunday-Thursday 24-28 July 2016, to be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Please mark these dates in your calendar! Scholars can… Read More GAMES 2016 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 24-28 July 2016

Check out our book listing (and send suggestions) – new book: Game Theory Michael Maschler, Eilon Solan, and Shmuel Zamir 2013 Cambridge University Press

Congratulations to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for receiving The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012 “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”.