Course on Matching, in Barcelona, by Péter Biró and David Manlove, April 27-28

If you are a Ph.D. student interested in matching, here's a two day course in Barcelona, by experts in the field.

V SEIO Course on Game Theory   

The University of Barcelona, the BEAT Research Institute, and the Game Theory and Assignment Markets Research Group are delighted to host the V SEIO Course on Game Theory on April 27 and 28, 2022.

The course is targeted at PhD students and early career researchers working in areas related to game theory. Besides covering a very active research topic, it is also an opportunity to meet with other researchers working in similar areas. 

The two-day course will cover algorithmic and game theoretic aspects of matching markets. Participants are welcome to present their game theory related research during a poster session.

The course will be delivered by Péter Biró (Head of  the Mechanism Design Group at KRTK) and David Manlove (Professor of Algorithms and Complexity at the University of Glasgow).

Registration deadline:  April 1, 2022  Registration is free, please fill in the on-line form to register.

Day 1 (April 27)

 09:00-09:30 Registration and welcome session

09:30-10:20 Stable Marriage and Hospitals / Residents problems: classical results

10:20-10:50 Coffee break

10:50-11:40 Decentralised matching markets, path-to-stability results

11:50-12:40 Hospitals / Residents problem: extensions (ties, couples, lower quotas)

12:40-14:10 Lunch

14:10-15:00 Hungarian university admissions: matching with contracts, choice functions, cutoff

stability

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:20 Housing markets: exchange of indivisible goods

16:30-17:20 Respecting improvement property for housing markets

Day 2 (April 28)

 09:00-09:50 House Allocation problem: Pareto optimal, popular and profile-based optimal matchings

10:00-10:50 School choice and constrained welfare-maximizing solutions

10:50-11:50 Coffee break and poster session

11:50-12:40 Stable roommate problems

12:40-14:10 Lunch

14:10-15:00 Matching with payments, auctions

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:20 Kidney Exchange

16:30-17:20 Generalized matching games, international kidney exchange