2008
COWLES SUMMER CONFERENCE

"CHOICE, CONTRACTS & COMPUTATION"
June 9 - 10, 2008
Organizers: Dirk Bergemann & Larry Samuelson
Location: Yale School of Management, Room A51
List of Attendees |
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MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008 |
| SESSION 1:
Mechanism Design |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Alex Gershkov, (University
of Bonn), Dynamic Revenue
Maximization with Heterogeneous Objects: A Mechanism Design Approach (joint with
Benny Moldovanu)
"The Trade-off Between Fast Learning and Dynamic
Efficiency" |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15-11:15 |
Ilya Segal, (Stanford
University) |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Susan Athey, (Harvard
University) |
| 12:30-2:30 |
Lunch |
| SE2SION 2:
Decision Theory |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Bart Lipman,
(Boston University) "Costly Self Control vs. Overwhelming Temptation"
(joint with Eddie Dekel) |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:45-4:45 |
Haluk Ergin, (Washington
University, St. Louis) |
| 4:45-5:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 5:00-6:00 |
Larry Blume, David Easley and
Joe Halpern, (Cornell University), "Constructive
Decision Theory" |
| 7:00 |
Dinner,
Bentara, 76 Orange Street, New Haven |
TUESDAY,
JUNE 10, 2008 |
| SESSION 3:
Computability |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Tim Roughgarden, (Stanford
University), "Potentials and Approximation" |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15-11:15 |
Shanghua Teng, (Boston
University), "Game and Market Equilibria: Approximation and
Smoothed Analysis" |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Christos Papademitriou,
(Berkeley) |
| 12:30-2:30 |
Lunch |
| SESSION 4:
Dynamic Contracting |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Yulie Sannikov, (Berkeley) |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:45-4:45 |
Noah Williams,
(Princeton University) |
| 4:45-5:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 5:00-6:00 |
Thomas Mariotti,
(Toulouse), |
| 7:00 |
Dinner, Sabor,
266 College Street, New Haven |
| ATTENDEES |
David Ahn (University of
California-Berkely)
Susan Athey (Harvard University)
Larry Blume (Cornell University)
Luciano de Castro (University of Illinois)
Martin Cripps (University College London)
David Easely (Cornell University)
Haluk Ergin (Washington University, St. Louis)
Kyna Fong (Stanford University)
Alex Gershkov (University of Bonn)
Olivier Gossner (Paris School of Economics)
Joe Halpern (Cornell University)
Jason Hartline (Microsoft)
Bart Lipman (Boston University)
George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse)
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (University of California-Los Angeles)
Steven Morris (Princeton University) |
Christos Papademitriou (Berkeley)
David Parkes (Harvard University)
Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)
Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)
James Powell (University of California-Berkely)
Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Bill Sandholm (University of WI-Madison)
Yulie Sannikov (Berkeley)
Todd Sarver (Northwestern)
Ilya Segal (Stanford University
Bruno Strulovici (University of Oxford)
Shanghua Teng (Boston University)
Xianwen Shi (University of Toronto)
Tomasz Strzalecki (Northwestern University)
Rakesh Vohra (Northwestern University)
Jonathan Weinstein (Kellogg School of Management)
Noah Williams (Princeton University)
Steve Williams (University of Illinois)
Muhamet Yildiz (MIT) |
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