International conference "Algorithmic Aspects of Social Choice and Auction Design"
We are glad to announce the International Conference on "Algorithmic Aspects of Social Choice and Auction Design" which will be held on August 09-10, 2018
The International Laboratory of Game Theory and Decision Making invites to participate in the international conference on "Algorithmic Aspects of Social Choice and Auction Design".
The meeting will have a single session, with 13 speakers coming from the Computer Science and Microeconomics communitiesб and a roundtable discussion with Yandex Research about applied problems of economic design faced by Yandex.
Dates: August 09-10, 2018
Place: 3/1-A Kantemirovskaya st., St. Petersburg, Russia
Participation is free but registration is mandatory: please follow the link to register.
Organising Committee:
Hervé Jean Moulin (University of Glasgow, NRU HSE)
Anna Bogomolnaia (University of Glasgow, NRU HSE)
Fedor Sandomirskiy (NRU HSE)
Alexander Nesterov (NRU HSE)
Constantine Sorokin (NRU HSE)
Conference Schedule: TBA
Our speakers:
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
|
Shahar Dobzinski, Weizmann Institute of Science | From Cognitive Biases to the Communication Complexity of Local Search Dobzinski Abstract.pdf |
| Yannai Gonczarowski, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | The Menu-Size of Approximately Optimal Auctions Gonczarowski Abstract.pdf |
| Jason Hartline, Northwestern University | TBA |
| Ron Holzman, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Pareto-optimality under impartial culture (joint work with Boris Bukh and Christopher Cox) |
| Elias Koutsoupias, University of Oxford | TBA |
| Reshef Meir, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Proxy Voting: from Better Democracy to Better Crowdsourcing Meir Abstract.pdf |
|
Hervé Jean Moulin, University of Glasgow, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” | TBA |
| Nisarg Shah, University of Toronto | Fair and Efficient Collective Decisions Nisarg Shah Abstract.pdf |
| Rann Smorodinsky, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Is it Rational to Keep Up with the Kardashians? Smorodinsky Abstract.pdf |
| Constantine Sorokin, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” | TBA |
| Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Approximate Modularity Revisited (joint work with Uri Feige and Michal Feldman) |
| Alexey Drutsa and Arsenii Vanunts, Research at Yandex | Pricing in Repeated Posted-Price Auctions: Worst-case and Expectation Optimization Abstract Drutsa and Vanunts.pdf |
If you have any questions please contact Xenia Adaeva via xadaeva@hse.ru.