Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

  The Mathematics of Games: Strategies, Cooperation and Fair Division March 14-26, 2011, Sevilla, Spain ----- Topics and lecturers: Mathematical Models in Economics. Prof. Salvador Barberá. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Prof. Juan de Dios Moreno Ternero. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Non-cooperative Games . Prof. Julio González Díaz. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Profa. Gloria Fiestras Janeiro. Universidad de Vigo. Profa. Luisa Monroy Berjillos. Universidad de Sevilla. Cooperative Games. Prof. Ignacio García Jurado. Universidad de la Coruña. Prof. Andres Jiménez Losada. Universidad de Sevilla. Prof. Miguel Angel Hinojosa.  Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Social Choice. Prof. Antonio Villar. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Operations Research Games. Prof. Henk Norde. Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Computational Complexity in Game Theory. Prof. Nimrod Megiddo. IBM Corporation. Almaden  Research Center. California (USA). Prof. ...

You can watch a live stream of the inauguration of the School of Science and Engineering and the 25th anniversary celebration of LUMS , on January 26, 2011 at 4 p.m. (Pakistan Standard Time).  The link of the event is http://anniversary.lums.edu.pk. Having heard good things about SSE, it is great news that science and engineering is picking up at LUMS. The programme of the event is as follows: 5:45 p.m. Ribbon-cutting ceremony Live Transmission 6:00 p.m. Addresses Dr. Ahmad Jan Durrani, Vice-Chancellor, LUMS Dr. Robert Jaffe, First Chair, SSE Advisory Board Dr. Richard Larson, Chair, SSE Advisory Board Syed Babar Ali, Pro-Chancellor, LUMS Abdul Razzak Dawood, Rector, LUMS Student from first batch of SSE Alumnus from first batch of LUMS 7:30 p.m. Screening of LUMS 25 th anniversary video 7:45 p.m. Dinner

  Joseph Malkevitch revisits the concept of 'Price of Anarchy' in the latest AMS feature column.

Paul Milgrom Nemmers Prize Lecture from Steve Goldband on Vimeo . Thanks to Prof. Martin Bichler for the link!

 The Second Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS-2011)               http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ stephane/coopmas11/            Workshop co-located with AAMAS-2011 // Tapei, Taiwan                                May 3rd, 2011 Foci:        * Cooperative game theory        * Coalition formation        * Joint decision making and voting        * Negotiation        * Collaborative filtering        * Market and economics based cooperation Key dates        * Submission of contributions: January 30th 2011        * Acceptance notification: February 27th 2011        * Workshop: May 3rd, 2011

After the success of COMSOC workshops, there is another workshop on a similar theme:  IJCAI Workshop on Social Choice and Artificial Intelligence Barcelona, 16 July 2011