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(last updated on May 22, 2013)

(due 15 May 2013): Call for nominations - Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science

(mailed to GTS members by Roger Myerson on 25 April 2013)

The Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science of the Game Theory Society was established in 2008 by a donation from Yoav Shoham in recognition of Ehud Kalai's role in promoting the connection of the two research areas. The last time the Prize was awarded at the Third World Congress of the Society in 2008 in Evanston. This time, the Prize will in 2013 be awarded at the Workshop on Computational Game Theory in Stony Brook (July 16-18, 2013).

The Prize will be awarded to the person (or persons) who have published the best paper at the interface of game theory and computer science in the last decade. Preference will be given to candidates who are 45 or less at the time of the award, but this is not an absolute constraint. The amount of the Prize will be USD 2,500 plus travel expenses of up to USD 2,500 to attend the scientific event where the Prize is awarded.

The Game Theory Society invites nominations for the Prize. Each nomination should include a full copy of the paper (in pdf format) plus an extended abstract, not exceeding two pages, that explains the nature and importance of the contribution.

Nominations should be emailed to the Society's Secretary-Treasurer, Federico Valenciano (at federico.valenciano@ehu.es ) by 15 May 2013. The selection will be made by a committee appointed by the President, and the result will be announced in June 2013.

Upcoming Conference Deadlines

(see GTS conference announcements)

May 6, 2013: Submission Deadline for
NEXT - Workshop on Networks and Externalities (June 6 - 7, Budapest, Hungary)

May 10, 2013: Poster deadline for
14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (June 16 - 20, 2013, Philadelphia, USA)

May 22, 2013: Submission Deadline for
6th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2013) (October 21 - 23, 2013, Aachen, Germany)

May 28, 2013: Early registration deadline for
14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (June 16 - 20, 2013, Philadelphia, USA)

July 31, 2013: Paper submission for
UECE Lisbon Meetings 2013: Game Theory and Applications (November 7 - 9, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal)

August 1, 2013: Submission deadline for
WINE 2013: The 9th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (December 12 - 15, 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA)

Check out our book listing (and send suggestions) - new book:

Game Theory

Michael Maschler, Eilon Solan, and Shmuel Zamir

2013 Cambridge University Press

Award of the Maschler Prize of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

The 2013 prize recipients are: Omer Tamuz (Weizmann Institute) and Reshef Meir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Call for Nominations, Maschler Prize of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society

The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society invites nominations for the Maschler Prize, which is an annual prize given to an outstanding research student in game theory in Israel. Nominations should be sent by e-mail to Ms. Michal Zohar at mihalz@tauex.tau.ac.il no later than April 10, 2013. More information appears on the prize's website at https://sites.google.com/site/themichaelbmaschlerprize/

Call for proposals to host the Fifth World Congress of the Game Theory Society

The Game Theory Society welcomes proposals to host the Fifth World Congress in the summer of 2016. Preliminary proposals should identify the host institution, potential sources of support, available conference facilities, and hotels sufficient to accommodate 600 to 900 participants.

Inquiries and proposals should be sent to:

Professor Roger Myerson
President, The Game Theory Society
Economics dept., Univ. of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
Email: myerson@uchicago.edu

We hope to hear by May 1, 2013 from anyone who considers hosting the World Congress.

Online open course on Game Theory

Matthew Jackson, Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham are offering a new version of an online game theory class that is free and open to the public. It covers some basics of game theory and some advanced topics and will begin in early January. It already has more than one hundred thousand students, but is still open to enrollment. Details can be found at: https://www.coursera.org/course/gametheory. Please let any interested parties know.

Congratulations

to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for receiving The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012 "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".

Alvin E. Roth	Lloyd S. Shapley

Software tools for cooperative game theory

(posted July 6, 2012)

Try out TUGlab - Transferable utility game theory Matlab toolboxes maintained by the Santiago Game Theory Group.

See also our resources on algorithms for game theory; further suggestions welcome!

ACM Gödel Prize for Seminal Papers in Algorithmic Game Theory

(posted June 3, 2012)

The ACM's (Association for Computing Machinery) Special Interest Group on Computation Theory (SIGACT) together with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) will recognize three groups of researchers for their contributions to understanding how selfish behavior by users and service providers impacts the behavior of the Internet and other complex computational systems. The three papers on Algorithmic Game Theory are due to Elias Koutsoupias and Christos H. Papadimitriou (GTS Council Member), Tim Roughgarden and Éva Tardos, and Noam Nisan and Amir Ronen. They will receive the 2012 Gödel Prize, sponsored jointly by SIGACT and EATCS for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), July 9-13, in Warwick, UK.

Congratulations to the prizewinners for this recognition of their seminal work on Algorithmic Game Theory!