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Call for Papers
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…
In Memoriam: Herbert Scarf (1935-2015)
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…
Call for nominations – The Lloyd Shapley Lecture
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…
Call for nominations – Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science
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…
John F. Nash and his wife Alicia Larde killed in car crash on May 23, 2015
(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…
2015 Abel prize awarded to John F. Nash and Louis Nirenberg
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…
Award of the 2015 Michael B. Maschler Prize of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society
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…
In Memoriam: Harold W. Kuhn (1925-2014)
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,…
Congratulations
Congratulations to Jean Tirole for receiving The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014 "for his analysis of market power and regulation". Jean Tirole, who was the Game Theory Society's Oskar Morgenstern Lecturer at the 2008 Congress…
Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society – Elections
(posted April 9, 2014) The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society elected Abraham Neymanas the President for the years 2014-2016, and re-elected Eilon Solan as the Executive Officer for a second (and last) term.