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These are being organized by the University of Southhampton. A schedule can be found here. To view the seminars one must first register. They are held on Thursday's at 4 pm UK time.

Weekly on Wednesdays at noon pacific time. Live streamed here, where viewer questions are forwarded to the speaker. Each talk is accompanied by two or three "guests": experts in the subject matter who offer additional questions, perspectives and discussion points. See updates here.

The economic theory group at Penn State has started a Webinar series. The first meeting is Friday April 10th at 2 pm US EST. For details, see this link.

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…

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…

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…

Has, after a long illness passed away. Though born in Geneva, he spent the early part of his life in France. The 1940 invasion of France propelled the Balinski family to the United States. He returned to France 40 years later where he settled. Balinski received his PhD under the supervision of Albert Tucker, part…

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…

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…