SÃO PAULO SCHOOL OF ADVANCED SCIENCES ON

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS OF THE GAME THEORY SOCIETY

General Information

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the SÃO PAULO SCHOOL OF ADVANCED SCIENCES ON GAME THEORY – INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS OF THE GAME THEORY SOCIETY, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Marilda Sotomayor. It will be held at the University of São Paulo, from July 25 to July 31, 2014.

The workshop will offer the participants the opportunity to interact with some of the most productive researchers in Game Theory. The week-long event will consist of mini-courses, conferences and contributed papers sessions, which will be complemented with a round table for discussions on themes of interest of the participants. The courses will start at the introductory level and will reach the frontiers of current research.

Graduate students should send a recommendation letter from their supervisors and an abstract of his/her thesis project. A limited financial support for graduate students, will be available (See submission rules for financial support).

The deadline for extended abstracts and paper submissions as well as for students applications are due February 15th and are encouraged since there are limited seats for the short courses. All submissions should be made via on-line. You should send either an extended abstract (up to 3 pages), or, if possible, a full paper, written in English, before February 15th. This paper will become downloadable from our website if your submission is accepted. A short abstract (up to 2000 symbols) is also required. The abstract will be printed in the book of abstracts. Presentations should be made in English, the official language of the workshop. Acceptable formats for the files are pdf, ps and word. Articles in all areas of Game Theory and Applications are welcome. The selected articles will be announced by March 20th. The schedule of talks on the workshop will be announced by the end of May.

DEADLINES:

Pre-registration: 04/30/2014 Late on-site registration: 07/04/2014 Extended abstract and paper submission: 02/15/2014 Students’ application: 02/15/2014 Acceptance: 03/20/2014 SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZER:

Marilda Sotomayor, USP, Brazil.

LOCAL ORGANIZER COMMITTEE:

Chair: Joaquim Guilhoto, Universidade de São Paulo/SP Mauricio Bugarin, Universidade Brasília Gustavo Andrey, Fundação Getúlio Vargas/SP Adhemar Villani Junior, INSPER/SP Paula Pereda, USP/SP

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Marilda Sotomayor, Universidade de São Paulo/SP, Brazil

• Georgy Artemov (UNIV. OF MELBOURNE) • Steven Brams (NYU) • Mauricio Bugarin (UnB) • Geoffroy De Clippel (BROWN UNIV.) • Olivier Gossner (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECON.) • Paulo Klinger (FGV/RJ) • Fuhito Kojima (STANFORD UNIV.) • Vijay Krishna (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY) • Wilfredo Maldonado (UNIV. CATÓLICA DE BRASILIA) • Humberto Moreira (FGV/RJ) • Hervé Moulin (GLASGOW UNIV.) • Marina Nunez (UNIV. DE BARCELONA) • Alvaro Sandroni (UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA) • Amparo Urbano (UNIV. DE VALENCIA) • Federico Valenciano (UNIV. DEL PAIS BASCO) • Bernhard Von Stengel (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS) • John Wooders (UNIV. OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY) • Myrna Wooders (VANDERBILT UNIV.)

Mini-Courses

• MARKET DESIGN - ALVIN ROTH (Stanford University) • SOCIAL CHOICE AND FAIR DIVISION - HERVÉ MOULIN (University of Glasgow) • INFORMATION THEORY - DAVID PEREZ-CASTRILLO (University Autonoma de Barcelona) • COOPERATIVE GAMES - ROBERTO SERRANO (Brown University) • STOCHASTIC GAMES: ALGORITHMS AND EXISTENCE - T. E. S. RAGHAVAN (University of Illinois at Chicago) • INTRODUCTION TO AUCTION THEORY - Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvania State Univ.) • CLUBS, COALITIONS AND NETWORKS - Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt Univ.)

All the courses will be ministered in parallel, except for “Market Design”. Plenary Lecturers

• AUMANN, ROBERT: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel • HART, SERGIU: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. • MASKIN, ERIC: Princeton University, USA • NASH, JOHN: Princeton University, USA • ROTH, ALVIN: Stanford University, USA. • SCHMEIDLER, DAVID: Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. • SOTOMAYOR, MARILDA: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Semi-Plenary Lecturers

• ARAÚJO, ALOÍSIO: Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Fundação Getúlio Vargas/RJ, BR • BRAMS , STEVEN: , US • DUBEY, PRADEEP: State University of New York, Stony Brook, US • KLINGER, PAULO: Fundação Getúlio Vargas/RJ, BR • KRISHNA, VIJAY: Pennsylvania State University, US • NEYMAN, ABRAHAM: Hebrew University of Jerusalém, IL • RENY, PHILIP: University of Chicago, US • SAMUELSON, LARRY: University of Yale, US • SANDRONI, ALVARO: , US • TAUMAN, YAIR: State University of New York, Stony Brook, US • THOMSON, WILLIAM: , US • VON STENGEL, BERNHARD: London School, UK • WOODERS, MYRNA: Vanderbilt University, US • ZAMIR, SHMUEL: Hebrew University of Jerusalém, IL

Speakers for the special sessions:

• A. ALKAN, Bogazicci University, TR • G. ARTEMOV, University of Melbourne, AU • G. DE CLIPEL, Brown University, US • H. MOREIRA, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, BR • A. NEME, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, AR • M. NUNEZ, Universitat de Barcelona, SP • J. OVIEDO, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, AR • A. URBANO, Universidad de Valencia, SP • F. VALENCIANO, Universidad del País Vasco, SP • J. WOODERS, University of Technology Sidney, AU

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