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(mailed by Eric Maskin 5 April 2011) Dear Members of the Game Theory Society, I would like to invite you to nominate candidates for the three named lectures (see below) at Games 2012 (to be held in Istanbul, July 22-26, 2012). A…

(mailed to GTS members by Bernhard von Stengel on 22 March 2011) Dear member of the Game Theory Society: The GTS webpage has a very active webpage for conference announcements, http://www.gametheorysociety.org/conferences/ and upcoming deadlines are posted at the bottom of the home…

(mailed to GTS members by Federico Valenciano on 17 November 2010) 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…

(posted by Bernhard von Stengel on 6 August 2010) The Game Theory Society reports with sadness that its charter member David Blackwell passed away on July 8, 2010 at the age of 91. David Blackwell was an outstanding statistician and mathematician, who…

We are sad to report that Bill Lucas of Claremont Graduate University passed away on June 7, 2010 after a short illness. Bill Lucas was Editor of the International Journal of Game Theory from 1978 to 1984 and a charter member of…

(mailed to GTS members by Sergiu Hart and Federico Valenciano on Monday, 8 March 2010) Dear Game Theory Society members, In the past months we have dealt with the issue of the location of the Game Theory Society's 2012 World Congress. We…

(mailed to GTS members by Federico Valenciano on Tuesday, 13 October 2009) 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 been elected: Susan…

(mailed to GTS members by Federico Valenciano and Bernhard von Stengel on Monday, 02 March 2009) The 20th Stony Brook Game Theory Festival of the Game Theory Society in July 2009 has two main events: July 13-17, 2009: International Conference on Game…

(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.…

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…