Revamp of CMSS

Our centre has been formally reviewed in December 2013, and we have decided to try to grow.

(coming soon)

There will be a new Advisory Board, which is smaller and not solely composed of academic researchers. Expect to see minor changes to this website soon.

New journal at the Econ/CS interface

From Vince Conitzer and Preston McAfee:

Dear colleagues, we’re happy to announce that ACM TEAC (Transactions
on Economics and Computation) is now ready for submissions. You can
learn more about this new journal here: http://www.sigecom.org/teac/

If you’ve already tried to submit something by e-mail or otherwise,
please submit your paper again from scratch at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/teac
(with our apologies).

Please send us any questions or concerns. We look forward to your submissions.

What do you get if you cross a mathematician with an economist?

Machine for turning coffee into theorems + practitioner of the dismal science = machine for turning coffee into dismal theorems? machine for turning dismal coffee into theorems?

(Apologies for this attempt at a joke – with several staff on leave, nothing much has happened so far this semester, but we expect some interesting news before the end of the year).