Centre for Mathematical Social Science

Mathematical analysis of individual and collective decisions

Summer workshop 2012-13

Program of the 4th CMSS Summer Workshop
Theme: Mathematical Economics
Old Government House, level 1

The Workshop is sponsored by The University of Auckland and the ATE research network hosted and administered at Massey University.

Thursday, 21 March 2013
08:45 – 08:55 Registration.
Morning Session.
08:55 – 09:00 Opening remarks of Director of CMSS Patrick Girard.
09:00 – 09:50 Clemens Puppe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) – “Unanimity overruled: Majority voting and the burden of history”
10:00 – 10:30 Breakfast/Morning tea/Registration.
10:30 – 11:00 Prasanna Gai (Economics, UoA) – “Networks in over-the-counter financial markets.”
11:00 – 11:30 Patrick Girard (Philosophy, UoA) – “Facebook and the epistemic logic of friendship”.
11:30 – 12:00 Toby Walsh (UNSW and NICTA) –“Random tie breaking & complexity of manipulation”

Afternoon Session.
14:00 – 14:50 Francis Bloch (Ecole Polytechnique, France) – “Rumours on social networks.”
15:00 – 15:30 Jiling Cao “Maximin Rational Expectation Equilibrium”
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon tea.
16:00 – 16:30 Mikhail Anufriev (UTS) – “Evolutionary selection of individual expectations and aggregate outcomes in asset pricing experiments”
16:30 – 17:00 Valentyn Panchenko. (UNSW) – “Asset price dynamics with local interactions under heterogeneous beliefs.”
17:00 – 18:00 Pre-dinner drinks. Old Government House.
18:30 Promotional launch event for the ATE research network and dinner at the Wine Chambers, 33 Shortland Street.

Friday, 22 March 2013
Morning Session.
09:00 – 09:50 Richard Cornes (ANU) – “Joint production games with mixed sharing rules: A share function approach”
09:50 – 10:20 Toby Walsh (UNSW and NICTA) – “Fair division of indivisible goods”
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea.
11:00 – 11:50 Simon Grant (UQ) – “Savage games”
12:05 – 12:55 Patrick O’Callaghan (UQ) – “Ordinal, nonlinear context-dependence”

Afternoon Students’ Session.
14:00 – 14:30 Shaun White (PhD, UoA) – “Strategic voting: overshooting and undershooting, and safe and unsafe strategic votes”
14:30 – 15:00 Rupert Freeman (BSc Honours, UoA) – “Compositions of simple games”

Afternoon Session continues.
15:00 – 15:30 Steffen Lippert (University of Otago) – “Learning and collusion in new markets with uncertain entry costs”
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon tea.
16:00 – 16:30 Mark Wilson (Comp Sci, UoA) – “Dynamics of opinion formation in social networks”
16:30 – 17:00 Arkadii Slinko (Math, UoA)“Electoral equilibria under scoring rules”

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