Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

(posted April 23, 2012)

With the Founding Committee of Yisrael Aumann, Sergiu Hart, and Ehud Lehrer, the Game Theory Society has an Israeli Chapter since April 2012. David Schmeidler is the first President of the Chapter. It is open to all GTS members interested in its activities. For enquiries please contact the Executive Officer of the Chapter, Eilon Solan, at eilonsolan@gmail.com.

Its current activities are:

• A one-day Game Theory Conference at Tel Aviv University on 7 May 2012.
• Award of the Michael Maschler Prize for an outstanding research student.The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society is happy to announce that Yehuda (John) Levy, a Ph.D. student at the Hebrew University, is the recipient of the 2012 Maschler prize for an outstanding research student in Israel. The prize ceremony will take place on May 7, during the game theory conference that we will be held at Tel Aviv. At the conference Yehuda will give a talk describing his research.