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לכבודו של פרופסור ישראל אומן, חתן פרס נובל לכלכלה 2005

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אולם נוידרפר

 

The 2nd Israeli Game Theory Conference

in honor of Professor Yisrael Aumann, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics

The Open University of Israel, The Dorothy de Rothschild Campus, Raanana

Neudorfer Auditorium

 

January 1, 2006      א טבת, ז' חנוכה תשס"ו



Registration and refreshments, Neudorfer Auditorium

9:15-10:00

 

 

Greetings, Gershon Ben-Shakhar – President of the Open University

10:00-10:15

 

 

Yisrael Aumann

10:15-10:30

 

 

Dov Monderer, The Technion

10:30-11:10

Multipotential Games

 

Abstract   Full text

 

 

 

Eddie Dekel, Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University

11:10-11:50

Non-Bayesian Testing of an Expert and A Category Test that cannot be Manipulated (with Yossi Feinberg)

 

Abstract   Full text1  Full text2

 

 

 

Lunch at the University restaurant

12:00-13:30

 

 

Parallel Session 1, Neudorfer Auditorium

13:30-15:00

 

 

Uri Rothblum, The Technion

A Case Study of the Assignment of Students to Dormitories Using a Stable Matching Model with an Entrance Criterion (with Youlia Celnik and Nitsan Perach)

Abstract

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Alan Miller, California Institute of Technology

Separability in Group Identification

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Elad Dokow, The Technion

Aggregation of Binary Evaluations (with Ron Holzman)

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Parallel Session 2, Senate Hall

13:30-15:00

 

 

Eilon Solan, Tel Aviv University

On a Markov Game with Incomplete Information (with Johannes Horner, Dinah Rosenberg and Nicolas Vieille)

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Amir Ronen, The Technion

Prediction Games (with Lyron Wahrmann)

Abstract   Full text

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Itai Ashlagi, The Technion

Resource Selection Games with Unknown Number of Players (with Dov Monderer and Moshe Tennenholtz)

Abstract   Full text

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Parallel Session 3, Horace Goldsmith classroom 12

13:30-15:00

 

 

Joel Guttman, Bar Ilan University

Public Good Contributions, Signalling, and the Evolution of Trust

Abstract   Full text

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Bezalel Peleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nash Consistent Representation of Effectivity Functions Through Lottery Models (with Hans Peters)

Abstract    Full text

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Igal Milchtaich, Bar Ilan University

The Equilibrium Existence Problem in Finite Network Congestion Games

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Coffee break, Neudorfer Auditorium

15:00-15:30

 

 

Yuval Heller, Tel Aviv University

15:30-16:10

A Minority-Proof Cheap-Talk Protocol

 

Abstract  Full text

 

 

 

Surprises Session

16:10-16:30

A video of an 1980 interview (in Hebrew) on Game Theory with Prof. Yisrael Aumann by Meir Shalev, for the Open University "Game Theory" course. Part of the video was screened at the conference. .

 


Yisrael Aumann's academic "family tree", with his PhD students, their PhD students, etc. There are 5 generations in the tree, with 113 academic descendants of Yisrael Aumann, in 19 countries.

 

 

 

Yakar Kannai, Weizmann Institute

16:30-17:10

Strategic Behavior in Financial Markets (with Joachim Rosenmüller)

 

Abstract  Full text

 

 

 

Lighting of Hanukah candles

17:10

 

 

Photographs from the conference