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   

Vince Conitzer has a review article on multiagent preference aggregation, title ' Making Decisions Based on the Preferences of Multiple Agents ' in the latest issue of the CACM.

FYI... -------------------------------------------- Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality Foundations for an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory 05 - 12 July, 2010 Directed by Gerd Gigerenzer and Vernon Smith Evening Lecture: Ariel Rubinstein Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany It is our pleasure to announce the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality 2010 - Foundations of an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory, which will take place from July 5th to 12th, 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. The objective of the Summer Institute is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary research, bringing together young scholars from psychology, economics, biology, philosophy, and neuroscience. It wants to push for a common understanding of the way Homo Sapiens forms decisions, challenging the reigning assumptions in the individual disciplines. This year, the evening lecture will be g...

The BBC has a fascinating series  from 8 to 19 March 2010. The series covers the big thinkers on the digital world and the potential and the nature of the internet. The speaker list is as follows: Week one: Sam Pitroda, Martha Lane Fox, Evgeny Morozov, Steve Ballmer, Ge Wang and Joe Rospars Week two: Eric Schmidt, Philip Emeagwali, Jimmy Wales, Daniel Ek and Victor Koo