Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

The 11th Max-Planck Summer School Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS 2010) will be held from August 2 - 6, 2010 in Saarbruecken, Germany. The topic is `Approximation Algorithms and Algorithmic Game Theory’ and the invited speakers are Christos Papadimitriou,Vijay Vazirani and Guido Schaefer. Topics covered in the course will be `Computing Equilibria’, `Traditional to Novel Market Models: the Quest for the 'Right' One’ and `Cost Sharing and Approximation Algorithms’.

An interesting workshop on algorithmic mechanism design : http://econ.eecs.northwestern.edu/FMD2010/#schedule