Slides from each lecture will be posted on this page as the course progresses.
Date Topic Teacher Slides Optional Reading
(Parkes-Seuken Book)
9/6 Course introduction; about the AGT literature Shah Handout, Slides
9/11 Game Theory 1: Normal form games; Dominant strategies; Nash equilibria Shah Slides Chapter 2 up to Section 2.4
9/13 Game Theory 2: Nash's theorem; Computing pure and mixed Nash equilibria; The indifference principle; Shah Slides Chapter 26 up to Section 26.1
9/18, 9/20 Game Theory 3: Price of anarchy (PoA); Price of stability (PoS); Cost-sharing games, Potential functions, Congestion games, Braess' paradox Shah Slides Chapter 1 - Section 1.1; Chapter 2 - Section 2.6.1;
9/25 Game Theory 4: Zero-sum games; Minimax theorem Shah Slides Chapter 3 - Section 3.1
10/02 Game Theory 5: Stackelberg games Shah Slides Note by Vincent Conitzer
10/04 Mechanism Design with Money 1: VCG mechanism Shah Slides Chapter 6 up to Section 6.3; Chapter 7 up to Section 7.3
10/09 Mechanism Design with Money 2: More VCG examples; truthful greedy approximation of VCG Shah Slides Chapter 8 up to Section 8.2
10/11 Mechanism Design w/ Money 3: Sponsored search; Bayes-Nash equilibrium; BNE of 1st price auction Shah Slides Chapter 10 up to Section 10.5; Chapter 6 - Sections 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
10/16 Going over solutions to assignment 1 Guest Lecture: Evi Micha (TA) No Slides N/A
10/18 Mechanism Design w/ Money 4: Revelation principle; Revenue equivalence principle Shah Slides Chapter 9
10/23 Mechanism Design w/ Money 5: Revenue maximization; Myerson's auction Shah Slides Chapter 9
10/25 Mechanism Design w/o Money 1: Facility Location Shah Slides Paper
10/30 Mechanism Design w/o Money 2: Stable Matching Shah Slides Chapter 12 up to Section 12.2
11/01 Voting 1: Introduction, Axioms, Rules Shah Slides Chapter 14 up to Section 14.1.4
11/06 NO CLASS (Reading Week) -- -- --
11/08 NO CLASS (Reading Week) -- -- --
11/13 Voting 2: Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem Shah Slides Chapter 7 - Section 7.6.2; Chapter 14 - Section 14.1.4
11/15, 11/20 Voting 3: Approaches to voting: axiomatic, statistical, implicit utilitarian Shah Slides Chapter 14 up to Section 14.1; Also, Chapter 2 up to Section 2.8 from Handbook of Computational Social Choice
11/22 Voting 4: Impartial selection Shah Slides --
11/27 Fair Division 1: Cake-cutting Shah Slides Chapter 13 up to Section 13.4 from Handbook of Computational Social Choice
11/29 Fair Division 2: Finish cake-cutting; Allocation of indivisible goods Shah Slides --
12/04 Review Shah Slides --