by mryan | Nov 17, 2013
The CMSS is pleased to announce the programme for its 5th Summer Workshop.
The Workshop will take place on 10-11 December 2013 at the University of Auckland. There is no registration fee for attending the Workshop — all are welcome.
FINAL PROGRAMME:
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DAY 1
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SESSION 1
Chair: Matthew Ryan
Approximate Implementation in Markovian Environments
Ludovic Renou (University of Essex) and Tristan Tomala (HEC, Paris and GREGHEC)
A Multi-Unit Dominant Strategy Double Auction
Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne) and Claudio Mezzetti (University of Melbourne)
SESSION 2
Chair: John Hillas
Plasticity, Monotonicity, and Implementability
Juan Carlos Carbajal (UNSW) and Rudolf Müller (Maastricht University)
Fair Division with Random Demand
Jingyi Xue (Singapore Management University)
SESSION 3
Chair: Mark Wilson
Extension Theorems for the Price of Anarchy
Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University)
SESSION 4
Chair: Arkadii Slinko
Implementation of Communication Equilibria by Cryptographic Cheap Talk
Peter Bardsley (University of Melbourne) and Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne)
One-Way Interdependent Games
Andrés Abeliuk (NICTA and University of Melbourne), Gerardo Berbeglia (NICTA and Melbourne Business School) and Pascal van Hentenryck (NICTA and University of Melbourne)
Experimental Design to Persuade
Anton Kolotilin (UNSW)
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DAY 2
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SESSION 1
Chair: Golbon Zakeri
Testing for Market Efficiency with Transactions Costs: An Application to Convergence Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets
Akshaya Jha (Stanford University) and Frank Wolak (Stanford University)
The Competitive Price of Stored Water
Andy Philpott (University of Auckland)
SESSION 2
Chair: Golbon Zakeri
An Equilibrium Model of a Congested Oligopolistic Electricity Market with an Imperfect Cap and Trade Market for CO2 Permits
Shmuel Oren (UC Berkeley)
Vertical Structure and the Price Effects of Mergers
Jim Bushnell (UC Davis)
SESSION 3
Chair: Simona Fabrizi
Inefficiency in the Shadow of Unobservable Reservation Payoffs
Madhav Aney (Singapore Management University)
Learning, Entry and Competition with Uncertain Common Entry Costs
Francis Bloch (Paris School of Economics), Simona Fabrizi (Massey University) and Steffen Lippert (University of Otago)
Ex-post Efficiency with Random Participation
Murali Agastya (University of Sydney) and Oleksii Birulin (University of Sydney)
SESSION 4
Chair: Steffen Lippert
Edgeworth Equilibria Separable and Non-Separable Spaces
Anuj Bhowmik (ISI, Kolkata)
Voting Manipulation Games
Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland)
Welfare Implications of Strategic Voting
Mark Wilson (University of Auckland)
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Venues
All sessions will be held in Room 315 of the Arts 1 Building (building number 206).
CAMPUS MAP
Registration, morning and afternoon teas will take place in the foyer outside 315. Lunches will be served on the Level 6 airbridge in the Owen G. Glenn Building (building number 260).
Workshop Dinner
There will be a conference dinner on 10 December at Ima’s Bistro. The following map has directions from campus.
The dinner is free for presenters. Others wishing to join us for dinner should contact Matthew Ryan (m.ryan@auckland.ac.nz) to confirm availability of space and the attendance fee.
Accommodation
Popular hotels and serviced apartments in the vicinity of campus include:
The Quadrant
Waldorf Celestion
The Pullman
Quest Carlaw Park
Quest Parnell
The Langham
ATE Symposium
Attendees may also be interested in the following event, taking place at the Albany Campus of Massey University on 12-13 December:
1st ATE Symposium
Thanks!
Finally, thanks to our generous sponsors:
ATE Research Network (Massey University)
Department of Computer Science (University of Auckland)
Energy Centre (University of Auckland)
Electric Power Optimization Centre (University of Auckland)
University of Auckland Business School
by mryan | May 9, 2013
Professor Puppe, Chair of Economic Theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, visited the CMSS for several weeks in February and March of 2013. Professor Puppe is managing editor of Social Choice and Welfare.
On 20 March 2013, Professor Puppe gave a Public Lecture on “Choosing how to vote: the mathematics of elections”. It gives a non-technical overview of the area. With New Zealand in the midst of a review of the Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMP) voting system, the CMSS hopes that such events will promote more informed debate on this important topic.
Link to a video record of the talk (audio plus slides) here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61342635/A201303201801.LTRD253350.REV1-slides.m4v
by adminnot | Jan 28, 2011
The 2010 summer workshop archive now contains almost all the slides for the talks.
The 2011 workshop is tentatively planned for December, and will have logic as a theme. More details will follow throughout the year.
Mark Wilson is now the Director of CMSS and the seminar organizer is Arkadii Slinko. Please contact us if you want to give a talk in the seminar, or otherwise visit us.
We expect some visitors in 2011, including Nadja Betzler from Germany.
by adminnot | Oct 8, 2010
Speaker: John Hillas
Affiliation: Department of Economics, UoA
Title: Backward Induction in Games with Imperfect Recall (with D. Kvasov)
Date: Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 301-242 [Science Centre, Symonds Street]
ABSTRACT
The standard solution concepts motivated by the idea of backward induction, subgame perfect equilibrium, extensive form perfect equilibrium, sequential equilibrium, and quasi-perfect equilibrium were explicitly defined only for games with perfect recall. In games with imperfect recall a literal application of the same definitions is clearly inappropriate. We give definitions that coincide with the standard definitions in games with perfect recall and define sensible solutions in games without perfect recall.
The basic idea is to look, at subsets of each player’s information sets, at the pure strategies that make that those subsets reachable and to define a system of beliefs as associating to that strategy and that subset a distribution over the other players’ strategies. We define the relevant solution concepts and show (conjecture) that the inclusions and the relation to proper equilibrium of the associated normal that were true for games with perfect recall remain true.
Very much work in progress.
by adminnot | Mar 8, 2010
The Centre for Mathematical Social Science has been officially established as a University of Auckland departmental centre in the Department of Mathematics. It supersedes the informal Mathematical Social Science group. We look forward to the future under this more formal arrangement.
Some information from the formal document setting up the centre:
The CMSS will provide a focus for academic exchanges between social scientists working with mathematical or computational methodologies, and researchers from pure and applied mathematical disciplines who are investigating problems with relevance to social science. It will
also facilitate cross-disciplinary supervision of research students and the teaching of inter-disciplinary courses. Students of mathematical or computational disciplines will discover new areas of application; and social scientists can learn about mathematical techniques that may be useful to their own research.
Since 2005, a group from the Departments of Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, and Engineering Science has run a lively seminar series on mathematical social science, hosted a range of distinguished academic visitors and co-organised several Workshops.
Establishment of the CMSS recognises the growing contribution of this group to the intellectual life of the University. More importantly, we intend that the Centre will contribute to the development of the group’s inter-disciplinary research agenda and expand the scope of its
activities, especially in the area of inter-disciplinary teaching. Faculty from the Departments of Philosophy and Finance are also amongst the founding members of the Centre, and we encourage even broader participation.
CMSS Advisory Board:
Prof. James Sneyd (HOD, Mathematics, Auckland) – CHAIR
Prof. Walter Bossert (Economics, Montreal)
Prof. Steven Brams (Political Science, NYU)
Prof. Andy McLennan (Economics, UQ)
Prof. Hervé Moulin (Economics, Rice)
Prof. Dr Jörg Rothe (Mathematics/Computer Science, Dusseldorf)
Prof. Toby Walsh (Computer Science, UNSW)
Prof. Bill Zwicker (Mathematics, Union College)
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