Category: Society news

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,…

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,…

Congratulations to fellows of the society, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, upon receiving this years Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

The seminar will be held bi-weekly on Fridays at 1-2 pm ET (10-11 am PT) beginning October 2nd. You can find more information about the seminar on this webpage.  If you interested in receiving updates about future seminars, please join the mailing list.

This on-line seminar series is organized by a consortium of Australian Universities.

A weekly on-line seminar series organized by Gagan Goal, Daniela Saban and Yash Kannoria. It is held on Thursday's at 11 am PST. More details can be found here.

William Sandholm, known to many of us as Bill, and former council member of the Society, passed away on July 6th, 2020. At the time of his death he was the occupant of the Richard E. Stockwell Chair in Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Bill made a number of important contributions to Game Theory…