Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

The  Sixth Pan-Pacific Conference on Game Theory just concluded . The technical program and the list of papers can be checked from here .

Al Roth points out   an interesting conference on matching theory .

The BBC projects India's rise as a rapidly rising powerhouse in higher education and knowledge transfer. The figures are staggering. India's government speaks of increasing the university enrolment rate from around 12% at present to 30% of the population by 2025 - approaching the levels of many Western countries. It wants to expand its university system to meet the aspirations of a growing middle class, to widen access, and become a "knowledge powerhouse". It will mean increasing the country's student population from 12 million to over 30 million, and will put it on course to becoming one of the world's largest education systems. "We will very likely be number two if not number one in terms of numbers," says Pawan Agarwal, a former civil servant and author of Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future. With US enrolment stagnating and the UK cutting back on university places, "Indian graduates will become more visible globally, partic...