(posted by Rakesh Vohra, 13 March 2016) The Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley passed away on March 12, 2016. He was of the `heroic age' of Game Theory that gave us, among others, Gale, Nash, Scarf, and Kuhn. You will find his memorial among the many eponymous concepts, models and theorems that pave the subject: the…
(posted February 22, 2016) The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society elected Abraham Neyman as the President for the years 2016-2018, and elected Igal Milchtaich as the Executive Officer.
Submission for GAMES 2016, the Fifth World Congress of the Game Theory Society, is now open, and closes on February 15, 2016. The Congress takes place Sunday-Thursday 24-28 July, 2016 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. You can submit a paper (including an abstract of up to 150 words), and revise it until submission closes, after registering…
posted by Rakesh Vohra, 17 November 2015 Herbert Scarf, one of the towering figures of the field, passed away on November 15th, 2015. Like John Nash and Harold Kuhn he was a member of that cohort that was to revolutionize Economics and Operations Research. Scarf himself left a lasting mark in Economic Theory, Mathematical Programming,…
The Lloyd Shapley Lecture is given at each World Congress of the Game Theory Society by a distinguished game theorist aged 40 or under at the time of the Lecture. The Game Theory Society is currently inviting nominations for the Lloyd Shapley Lecture at GAMES 2016 – Fifth World Congress of the Game Theory Society,…
The Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science of the Game Theory Society in Honour of Ehud Kalai was established in 2008 by a donation from Yoav Shoham in recognition of Ehud Kalai's role in promoting the connection of the two research areas. The Prize will be awarded at the Fifth World Congress of the…
(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…
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…
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…
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…