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 9	Course overview
1	Thu, Jan 11	Utility theory	S&LB §3.1
2	Tue, Jan 16	Game theory intro	S&LB §3.2–3.3.3
2	Thu, Jan 18	Further solution concepts	S&LB §3.4 Add/drop deadline: Jan 19
3	Tue, Jan 23	Further solution concepts & Computational issues	S&LB §3.4.5, 3.4.7, 4.1, 4.2.3, 4.6, Appendix B Assignment 1 released
3	Thu, Jan 25	Perfect-information extensive form games	S&LB §5.1
4	Tue, Jan 30	Imperfect-information extensive form games	S&LB §5.2–5.2.2
4	Thu, Feb 1	Repeated games	S&LB §6.1
5	Tue, Feb 6	Bayesian games	S&LB §6.3 Assignment 1 due
5	Thu, Feb 8	Social choice	S&LB §9.0–9.4 (excluding Arrow’s Theorem proof)
6	Tue, Feb 13	Mechanism design	S&LB §10.0–10.2 Paper presentation scheduling
6	Thu, Feb 15	Quasilinear mechanism design	S&LB §10.3–10.4 Assignment 2 released
	Tue, Feb 20	reading week, no class
	Thu, Feb 22	reading week, no class

Part 2: Behavioural game theory

wk	Date	Topic	Readings & Milestones
1	Tue, Feb 27	Behavioral economics intro	Mobina: Kahneman & Tversky (1979) Harshil: Conlisk (1989) Project talk scheduling
1	Thu, Feb 29	Single-shot interactions	Paul: Camerer, Ho, and Chong (2004) Reza: McKelvey & Palfrey (1995) Jawdat: Wright & Leyton-Brown (2017)
2	Tue, Mar 5	Salience and focal points	Kiana: Crawford & Iriberri (2007) Alireza K: Burchardi and Penczynski (2014) Sadegh: Wright & Leyton-Brown (2019)
2	Thu, Mar 7	Fairness and social preferences	Yasmin: Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler (1986) Sara: Gal et al. (2017) Assignment 2 due
3	Tue, Mar 12	Reasoning about sequential interactions	Siyuan: Li (2017) Elaheh: Zinkevich et al. (2007) Survey outline due
3	Thu, Mar 14	No-regret learning	Yasmin: Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler (1986) Bahar: Deng, Schneider, and Sivan (2019) Mashid: Nekipelov, Syrgkanis, and Tardos (2015) Parnian: Morrill et al. (2021)
4	Tue, Mar 19	Stackelberg equilibrium	Reza: Kiekintveld et al. (2009) Alireza M: Brown et al. (2023) Mohamed: Hong, Levine, and Dragan (2023)
4	Thu, Mar 21	Behavioral finance	Marcos: Benartzi & Thaler (1995) Deepak: Khaw et al. (2017) Amirhossein: Rabin (2000)

Part 3: Research surveys

wk	Date	Presentations	Milestones
1	Tue, Mar 26	no class
1	Thu, Mar 28	Reza: Kiekintveld et al. (2009) Yasmin: Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler (1986)
2	Tue, Apr 2	- Paul & Deepak: Game theoretic perspectives on differential privacy in the real world - Sara & Mobina: Leveraging regret minimization in auctions
2	Thu, Apr 4	- Sadegh: Game theoretic perspectives on multiagent reinforcement learning - Siyuan: Fairly dividing indivisible goods - Elaheh & Mashid: Learning algorithms for regret minimization	Withdrawal deadline: Apr 5
3	Tue, Apr 9	- Parnian: Behavioral game theoretic analysis in social networks - Alireza K: Fictitious play in self play - Jawdat: Determining player goals in video games
3	Thu, Apr 11	- Amirhossein & Kiana & Reza: Game theoretic analysis of market inefficiencies - Marcos & Harshil & Mohamed: Critic based empathetic actor updates in sequential social dilemmas - Alireza M & Yasmin: Automating general mechanism design
	Thu, Apr 18	no class	Survey writeup due

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