by Mark C. Wilson | Feb 11, 2013
Speaker: Dov Samet
Affiliation: Tel Aviv University
Title: Interim agreements: In the footsteps of Zeno, Parkinson, and Nash
Date: Thursday, 14 Feb 2013
Time: 10:30 am
Location: Room 317, Owen Glenn Building
Zeno’s paradoxes of motion, which claim that moving from one point to another cannot be accomplished in finite time, seem to be of serious concern when moving towards an agreement in utility space is concerned. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality implies that such an agreement cannot be reached in finite time. By explicitly modeling dynamic processes of reaching interim agreements, we show that if utilities are von Neumann-Morgenstern, then no such process can bring about an agreement in finite time in linear bargaining problems. To extend this result for all bargaining problems, we characterize a particular path illustrated by Raiffa, and show that no agreement is reached along this path in finite time. When deadlines are set, then agreements are reached exactly at the deadline, proving Parkinson’s Law that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
by Mark C. Wilson | Dec 21, 2012
A message from CMSS member John Hillas:
Dov Samet will be visiting the Economics Department at the University of Auckland in February 2013. I am organising a two day workshop on epistemic game theory on 18 and 19 February.
My apologies for the late notice. I was also hoping to have some funds to at least partially support visitors travel to and stay in Auckland. Unfortunately that has not happened and I have not funds to support any visitors (except Dov). I shall be able to provide you with some snacks and coffee.
I hope to keep the workshop reasonably informal and *somewhat* narrowly focused, that is focused on papers that are clearly in the field of epistemic game theory – though I’d be happy to consider papers that were clearly about epistemics but less clearly about game theory. I hope to start the workshop with a survey of what has been done and finish with an “open problems” forum. So I hope that the workshop will be appropriate for people who are not working in the area but who have some interest.
Please let me know if you’d like to come and particularly if you have sometime suitable that you’d like to talk about.
Our office will be closed from tomorrow until early in the new year, though I’ll be checking my email and will respond over that time. From about 3 January our office will be able to provide a little assistance with booking accommodation for anyone who would like to visit us for this workshop.
UPDATED: dates changed to 17-18 February.
by Mark C. Wilson | Dec 9, 2012
Speaker: Matthew Ryan
Affiliation: University of Auckland
Title: Freedom of Opportunity: Axiomatic Approaches
Date: Tuesday, 4 Dec 2012
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Room 6115, Owen Glenn Building
This talk will give a brief and selective overview of the literature on axiomatic characterisations of freedom. Since this literature spans (at least) economics, mathematics, philosophy, politics and statistics, I hope it might be a fruitful area of potential research for the CMSS group. I’ll discuss the main strands of this research and some key results. I’ll also present recent work connecting this literature to that on abstract convexity, including some (hopefully interesting!) open questions.
Link to slides
Survey article by Dowding and van Hees
by Mark C. Wilson | Nov 17, 2012
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS) at The University of Auckland (New Zealand) will host its 4th Summer Workshop from 21-22 March 2013. There will also be an excursion on Saturday 23 March.
The 2013 Workshop will focus on Mathematical Economics, though submissions on all aspects of mathematical social science are welcome.
The keynote speakers are:
– Matthew Jackson (Stanford University, USA)
– Clemens Puppe (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany)
– Toby Walsh (University of NSW and NICTA, Australia)
There will be also talks by other visitors and local researchers. As usual some of the talks will be under the category “work in progress”. A more detailed program will be announced later. Information on the previous workshops of CMSS can be found on the webpage of our Centre (http://cmss.auckland.ac.nz).
If you are willing to participate please send a message to Arkadii Slinko (a.slinko@auckland.ac.nz) or Matthew Ryan (m.ryan@auckland.ac.nz). We will be glad to hear from you. We may have a small amount of funding for assisting junior researchers to attend.
by Mark C. Wilson | Nov 6, 2012
The final report to Parliament has been released. Appendix D contains the submission from Mark Wilson and Michael Fowlie, discussed at a CMSS seminar this year.
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