(mailed to GTS members by Peyton Young on Wednesday, 30 July 2008) With great sadness we report that, after a long illness, Michael Maschler of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem passed away on July 20, in Jerusalem, at the age of 81. He was a wonderful colleague, researcher, and teacher, and served as a member…
Following the call for nominations for the prize in February 2008 from the Society President, Peyton Young, Ehud Kalai chaired, at the request of Peyton Young, the prize committee that included Silvio Micali of MIT and Yoav Shoham of Stanford, to determine the Prize winner(s), and reports (July 21, 2008): Chairing the prize committee was not…
(mailed to GTS members by Eric van Damme on Wed, 21 May 2008) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, According to the Bylaws of our Society, elections for the Officers of the Society have to be held every two years. The Officers (the President, the past President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice President for…
(mailed to GTS members by Bernhard von Stengel on Monday, 17 March 2008) UC Berkeley Press release and Obituary (March 18, 2008) David Gale, a charter member of the Game Theory Society, died on March 7, 2008, following a heart attack, in Berkeley, California. He was 86 and very active until the day of his…
(mailed to GTS members by Eric van Damme on Thur, 6 March 2008) Dear game theorist, Many of you already renewed your membership to the Game Theory Society. Thanks! In case you did not yet do so, I would like to remind you of that possibility. As a 2008 member of the GTS you benefit…
(mailed to GTS members by Eric van Damme on Mon, 21 Jan 2008) The elections were announced on December 19, 2007 and January 15, 2008 was the final day on which people could vote. 108 members of the GTS voted, which is 35{a0d3d8a6c1d060da8f19ab32801f416870f9d0eae4c216fc83a2465db185ebdb} of the GTS members. (In 2005, 32{a0d3d8a6c1d060da8f19ab32801f416870f9d0eae4c216fc83a2465db185ebdb} of the GTS members voted;…
(mailed to GTS members by Peyton Young on Mon, 21 Jan 2008) At the recent conference in Jerusalem in honor of Ehud Kalai, a new Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science was announced by the Society in recognition of Ehud's role in promoting this exciting new area of research. The prize will be awarded…
Congratulations to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, and Roger B. Myerson for receiving The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".