FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP OF THE GAME THEORY SOCIETY. It will be held at the University of São Paulo, from July 29 to August 4, 2010. The event will honor JOHN NASH, on the occasion of the 60^th anniversary of Nash equilibrium.

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. The courses will start at the introductory level and will reach the frontiers of current research. Graduate students interested in these courses should send a recommendation letter from their supervisors.

Early registrations are due March 15th and are encouraged since there are limited seats for the short courses. Updated information will be provided in http://www.usp.br/econ/bwgt2010.

Registration fee payment should be received by April 30th, 2010. A late charge of $100 will be added after this date.

All submissions should be made via on-line after registration. You should send an extended abstract (up to 3 pages), or, if possible, a full paper, written in English, before March 15th, 2010. This paper will become downloadable from our website if your submission is accepted. A short abstract (up to 200 words) 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 April 15, 2010. In case your paper is accepted, we will send you an e-mail with information on registration fee payment, accommodation possibilities and arrival instructions. The schedule of talks on the workshop will be announced by the end of May.

DEADLINES:
Early Registration: 03/15/2010
Extended abstract: 03/15/2010
Acceptance: 04/15/2010
Registration fee payment: 04/30/2010

REGISTRATION FEES for GTS members:
$200 - not in OECD
$250 - in OECD
$100 - students not in OECD
$150 - students in OECD
$350 - non-academic
$50 are added for Non-members of the GTS.

SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZER:
Marilda Sotomayor, USP, Brazil.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Chair: Marilda Sotomayor
Steven Brams
Mauricio Bugarim
Geoffroy De Clippel
Olivier Gossner
Wilfredo Maldonado
Paul Milgrom
Herve Moulin
Marina Nunez
Alvaro Sandroni
Amparo Urbano
Federico Valenciano
Bernhard von Stengel
John Wooders
Myrna Wooders

LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
Marilda Sotomayor
Maurício Bugarin
Gustavo Andrey
Adhemar Villani Junior
Joe Yoshino

MINI-COURSES
M1 - Non-Cooperative Games, Shmuel Zamir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel.
M2 - Auction Theory, Paul Milgrom, Stanford Univ, USA.
M3 - Experimental Economics, John Wooders, Univ. of Arizona, USA.
M4 - Game Theory and Democracy, Steven Brams, New York University, USA.
M5 - Networks, Matthew Jackson, Stanford University, USA.
M6 - Strategy-proofness, Salvador Barbera, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
The courses M3 and M4, as well as M5 and M6, will be ministered in parallel.


INVITED SPEAKERS FOR THE PLENARY AND SEMI-PLENARY SESSIONS WHO CONFIRMED PARTICIPATION:
Aloisio Araujo, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
Robert Aumann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
Geoffroy De Clippel, Brown University, USA
Gabrielle Demange, Paris School of Economics, France
Pradeep Dubey, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
John Duggan, University of Rochester, USA
Olivier Gossner, London School of Economics, UK
Sergiu Hart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Olivier Hudry, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
Eric Maskin, Princeton University, USA
Roger Myerson, University of Chicago, USA
Hervé Moulin, Rice University, USA
John Nash, Princeton University, USA
Marina Nunez, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
Frank Page, University of Alabama, USA
Philip Reny, University of Chicago, USA
Hamid Sabourian, University of Cambridge, USA
William Sandholm, University of Wisconsin, USA
Alvaro Sandroni, University of Pennsylvania, USA
William Thomson, University of Rochester, USA
Amparo Urbano, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Bernhard von Stengel, London School of Economics, UK
Federico Valenciano, Universidad Del País Vasco, Spain
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University, USA