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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…

(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 21 September 2017) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, According to the bylaws of our Society, one of the duties of the Council is to vote for…

(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 12 July 2017) Dear member of the Game Theory Society, The elections for the replacement of 12 members of the GTS Council have taken place, and the following candidates have…

(posted by Rakesh Vohra, 21 February 2017) Kenneth Joseph Arrow, a member of the Society's advisory board since its foundation, passed away February 21, 2017. If a scholar's contributions are to be judged by the amount of work he or she created…

(posted by Rakesh Vohra, 11 September 2016) GTS Council Member Noam Nisan was awarded the 2016 Knuth Prize. The details may be found here. Among the contributions he was honored for, was his work on algorithmic game theory. Additional version of the original…

Call for proposals to host the Sixth World Congress of the Game Theory Society (posted by Rakesh Vohra, 3 September 2016) The Game Theory Society welcomes proposals to host the Sixth World Congress in the summer (typically July) of 2020. Preliminary proposals…

(posted by Rakesh Vohra, 1 September 2016) Reinhard Selten, winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions to Game Theory (subgame perfect!), passed away on August 23rd of this year. He met his wife Elisabeth Lang Reiner through…

(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 10 June 2016) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, According to bylaws of our Society, elections for the Officers of the Society have to be held every…

(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 30 March 2016) Dear member of the Game Theory Society, The elections for the replacement of 12 members of the GTS Council have taken place, and the following…