Sharing models of thought

Reasoning, rationality and problem-solving

Guest seminars on Integrative Thinking for Academics

DCIT offers a seminar series on "Foundational Models of Human Agency" in which academic guests present their research on formal models of reasoning, rationality, and problem-solving for other academics.

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic
Tuesday, September 17	Philipp Strack University of Bonn	Optimal Stopping with Private Information
Tuesday, September 24	Dov Samet Tel Aviv University	Non-Bayesian rationality http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/weak.pdf http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/npce.pdf
Tuesday, October 15	Antonio Penta University of Wisconsin - Madison	TBD
Tuesday, November 5	Bruno Strulovici Northwestern University	TBD
Tuesday, December 10	Phil Reny University of Chicago	TBD
Wednesday, March 19	Alexander Wolitzky Stanford University	TBD

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Topic
March 13	Antonio Penta University of Wisconsin	“A Robustly Efficient Auction”
March 20	Tomasz Sadzik, New York University	“Agency Models with Frequent Actions: A quadratic approximation method” (joint with Ennio Stacchetti, NYU)

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic
October 4	Amanda Friedenberg Arizona State University	“Iterated Dominance Revisited” joint with H. Jerome Keisler
October 18	David Ahn University of California at Berkeley	“Combinatarial voting / The Condorcet Juries Theorem” joint with Santiago Oliveros
October 25	Maher Said Washington University, St. Louis	“Progressive Screening: Long-Term Contracting with a Privately Known Stochastic Process”
November 22	Joe Halpern Cornell University	“Beyond Nash Equilibrium: Solution Concepts for the 21^st Century”
December 6	Leeat Yariv Caltech	"Collective Dynamic Choice: The necessity of time inconsistency" joint with Matthew O. Jackson

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Topic
March 15	Bart Lipman Boston University	“Costly Self Control and Random Self Indulgence” joint with Eddie Dekel
March 22	Tai-Wei Hu Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University	“Complexity and Mixed Strategy Equilibria”
April 26	Tilman Borgers University of Mihcigan	“An optimal voting system when voting is costly”

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic
November 23	Marcin Peski University of Texas (now University of Toronto)	“Axiomatic Foundations of Harsanyi’s Type Space and Solution Concepts” joint with Jeff Ely
November 30	Marciano Siniscalchi Northwestern University	“Recursive Vector Expected Utility”
December 7	Adam Brandenburger New York University (STERN)	“Epistemic Game Theory”
December 14	Ed Green Pennsylvania State University	“Dominance Correspondence on Finite Games”

If no link is provided to a paper, the presenter has indicated they do not wish the paper to be disseminated.