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 | Abel: Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler (1986) Anastasiia: Wright & Leyton-Brown (2017) Haoxin: Camerer, Ho, and Chong (2004) |
| 2 | Thu, Mar 5 | readings presentations | Lyndon: Nekipelov, Syrgkanis, and Tardos (2015) Parash: d’Eon, Murad, Leyton-Brown, and Wright (2024) Isaac: Deng, Schneider, and Sivan (2019) |
| 3 | Tue, Mar 10 | readings presentations | Aditya: Wu & Brynjolfsson (2015) Melika: Kahneman & Tversky (1979) Assignment 2 due |
| 3 | Thu, Mar 12 | Bonus lecture: Coalitional Game Theory | S&LB §12.1–12.2.2 Survey outline due |
| 4 | Tue, Mar 17 | readings presentations | Parham: Zinkevich et al. (2007) Jacob: Morrill et al. (2021) |
| 4 | Thu, Mar 19 | no class |
Part 3: Research surveys
| wk | Date | Presentations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue, Mar 24 | - Lyndon: Online Fair Division of Indivisible Goods with Applications in Resource Allocation: A Survey - Madison: Mason & Suri (2012) |
| 1 | Thu, Mar 26 | - Isaac: Bridge |
| 2 | Tue, Mar 31 | - Anastasiia: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Imperfect-Information Extensive-form Games - Madison: Platforms and Tools for Administering Behavioural Game Theory Experiments: A Survey - Haoxin: No-regret Agents |
| 2 | Thu, Apr 2 | no class Withdrawal deadline: Apr 3 |
| 3 | Tue, Apr 7 | - Aditya: From Differentiable Economics to Deep Incentive Design: Automated Mechanism Design - Melika: Communication Games: Signaling, Cooperation, and Human Behavior - Parash: Rational Neurons in Artificial Intelligence |
| 3 | Thu, Apr 9 | - Abel: The Foundations of Quantum Game Theory - Parham: Aggregating Performance of Learning Agents with Social Choice - Jacob: Meta-Learning Regret Minimizers for Equilibrium Computation in Extensive-Form Games |
| Thu, Apr 16 | no class Survey writeup due |