Schedule

This schedule is subject to change as the semester progresses, but it will be kept up to date. Slides are linked from the lecture title. They will be made available on the day of the lecture.

Part 1: Game theory

wk	Date	Topic	Readings & Milestones
1	Tue, Jan 6	Course overview
1	Thu, Jan 8	Utility theory	S&LB §3.1
2	Tue, Jan 13	Game theory intro	S&LB §3.2–3.3.3
2	Thu, Jan 15	Game theory intro cont.	S&LB §3.2–3.3.3 Add/drop deadline: Jan 16
3	Tue, Jan 20	Further solution concepts	S&LB §3.4
3	Thu, Jan 22	Further solution concepts cont.	S&LB §3.4 Assignment 1 released
4	Tue, Jan 27	Computational issues	S&LB §3.4.7, 4.1, 4.2.3, 4.6, Appendix B
4	Thu, Jan 29	Perfect-information extensive form games	S&LB §5.1
5	Tue, Feb 3	Imperfect-information extensive form games	S&LB §5.2–5.2.2
5	Thu, Feb 5	Repeated games	S&LB §6.1 Assignment 1 due
6	Tue, Feb 10	Bayesian games	S&LB §6.3 Paper presentation scheduling
6	Thu, Feb 12	Social choice	S&LB §9.0–9.4 (excluding Arrow’s Theorem proof) Assignment 2 released
	Tue, Feb 17	reading week, no class
	Thu, Feb 19	reading week, no class
7	Tue, Feb 24	Mechanism design	S&LB §10.0–10.2
7	Thu, Feb 26	Quasilinear mechanism design	S&LB §10.3–10.4 Project talk scheduling

Part 2: Behavioural game theory

wk	Date	Topic	Readings & Milestones
2	Tue, Mar 3	readings presentations	tbd
2	Thu, Mar 5	readings presentations	tbd
3	Tue, Mar 10	readings presentations	tbd Assignment 2 due
3	Thu, Mar 12	readings presentations	tbd Survey outline due
4	Tue, Mar 17	readings presentations	tbd
4	Thu, Mar 19	readings presentations	tbd

Part 3: Research surveys

wk	Date	Presentations	Milestones
1	Tue, Mar 24	project presentations
1	Thu, Mar 26	project presentations
2	Tue, Mar 31	project presentations
2	Thu, Apr 2	project presentations	Withdrawal deadline: Apr 3
3	Tue, Apr 7	project presentations
3	Thu, Apr 9	project presentations
	Thu, Apr 16	no class	Survey writeup due