Caltech Hosts the 2018 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory

On January 12, The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences sponsored the 2018 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory (NEGT), which was organized by Omer Tamuz, assistant professor of economics and mathematics, with colleagues from USC and UCLA. The symposium brought together students, professors, and other researchers who use game theory to analyze, design, and assess networked interactions across economics, computer science, engineering, management, and other disciplines. The following scholars presented talks at the symposium: Haifeng Xu (USC), Jiasi Chen (UCR), Vijay Vazirani (UCI), Hamid Nazerzadeh (USC), Philipp Strack (UC Berkeley), Elchanan Mossel (MIT), and Vahab Mirrokni (Google).

A goal of the conference was to highlight connections between research areas and stimulate conversations about the benefits and limitations of game theory as a tool for understanding networked systems. The NEGT community is interested in both the application of game theory to network-related problems and the development of novel game-theoretic methods, with a broader interest in learning and mechanism design.