Speaker: Dr. Amin Saberi
Assistant Professor
Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
Stanford University, CA

Title: Game Dynamics, Equilibrium Selection and Network Structure

Local Host: Mohsen Taghaddosi

Time: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008, 12:15am-1:30 pm
Kharazmi Hall, Department of Computer Engineering
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran

Abstract:

Coordination games describe social or economic interactions in which the adoption of a common strategy has a higher payoff. They are classically used to model the spread of conventions, behaviors, and technologies in societies. Since the pioneering work of Ellison (1993), specific network structures have been shown to have dramatic influence on the convergence of such dynamics. In this talk, I will try to make these results more precise and use the intuition for designing effective algorithms.
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