Slides from each lecture will be posted on this page as the course progresses. | ||||
Date | Topic | Teacher | Slides | Optional Reading (Parkes-Seuken Book) |
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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 | -- |