Topics on the Border of Computation and Economics

Prof. Noam Nisan and Dr. Michal Feldman

 
Week Sunday Lecture
1 18/10/2009
Introduction to the course - background and motivation, quick review of game theory concepts (strategies, dominant strategies, Nash equilibrium) (153KB)
2 25/10/2009
Game payoff, congestion games, potential games (149KB)
3 01/11/2009
Selfish routing - bounding the price of anarchy (2.43MB)
4 08/11/2009
Finding Nash Equilibrium - challenges and partial solutions (124KB)
5 15/11/2009
Network construction games - bounding the price of anarchy and the price of stability (117KB)
6 22/11/2009
How much time does it take to find a pure Nash equilibrium? Lower bounds (96KB)
7 29/11/2009
Graphic representations and complexity of finding a Nash equilibrium, mixed strategies, the minmax theorem (136KB)
8 06/12/2009
Proof of minmax theorem, applications of the theorem (141KB)
9 Happy Hanukkah!
10 20/12/2009
Alpha-Beta pruning, lower bounds on random algorithms (134KB)
11 27/12/2009
Mixed equilibrium: definition and proof of existence (111KB)
12 03/01/2010
Proof of the fixed point theorem, PPAD, correlated equilibrium (94KB)
13 10/01/2010
Correlated equilibrium, regret minimization (98KB)
14 17/01/2010
An algorithm with sublinear swap-regret (112KB)
  All Lectures (3.74MB)