Visit to TU Delft and Amsterdam

I just returned from a research visit to TU Delft. My hosts were Tomas Klos, Cees Witteveen, Mathijs de Weerdt and Yingqian Zhang. They are a part of an applied algorithms group with an increasing interest in game theory and mechanism design. It was great making some new contacts and getting feedback on some recent research. I received an award winning Senz umbrella as a gift. The umbrella has been designed by people from TU Delft.

The visit coincided with an MSc thesis defence of Bart de Keijzer who finished an excellent thesis. The main contribution of the thesis was identifying some structural properties of the lattice of canonical weighted voting games and enumerating them. This helps give exact solutions to designing weighted voting games with specific properties like minimum distance from a target power index vector. Congratulations Bart!

The trip also gave me an opportunity to visit Amsterdam and meet up with Michiel, a friend i hadn't met in four years.  We ended up having coffee on the top floor of Metz & Co which provided a great view of the city.

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Bart said…
I am glad you enjoyed your visit to TU Delft. Thanks again for coming here!

I also liked your talk a lot, and I am now reading the paper.
December 11, 2009 at 8:33 PM
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