A rogue's gallery of transplant heroes (following ATC2026)

 After my talk yesterday at the American Transplant Congress, I had lunch with a table of transplant heroes, Joe Tector, Peter Friend, Juliana Bastos, Mike Rees and Gustavo Ferreira.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starzl Lecture: "The Economics of Kidney Exchange," Sunday at the American Transplant Congress in Boston

 I'll be speaking Sunday at the American Transplant Congress, on kidney exchange.  It will be hard to squeeze in all the recent developments in my half hour, including current controversies.

State-of-the-Art Speakers:  Transplantation’s leading luminaries and innovative thinkers will share inspiring research and insights at ATC 2026.  
 
Alvin E. Roth, PhD: 
Thomas E. Starzl State-of-the-Art Lecture: The Economics of Kidney Exchange

Sunday, June 21: 11:00 AM ET 

 

 

 

European Workshop on Market Design #6, 17 — 18 June 2026, in Paris

 Coming up this week.

European Workshop on Market Design #6

17 — 18 June 2026

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The 6th edition of the European Workshop on Market Design (2026 EWMD) holds at

Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)
12 Place du Panthéon
75005 Paris,

The 2026 Lecture in Memory of Nora Szech (1980-2023) will be given by Klaus Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

Speakers:

Nageeb Ali, Penn State University

Mira Frick, Princeton University

Guillaume Haeringer, Baruch College

Ilan Kremer, University of Warwick

Philippos Louis, University of Cyprus

Justus Preusser, Bocconi University

Agathe Pernoud, Chicago Booth

Cyril Rouault, GRANEM, University of Angers and Centre for Economics at Paris-Saclay

Anna Sanktjohanser, Toulouse School of Economics

Klaus Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Nikhil Vellodi, Paris School of Economics

Maren Vairo, University of Pennsylvania

Organizing Committee

Nina Bobkova, Rice University

Olivier Bos, ENS Paris-Saclay, Centre for Economics at Paris-Saclay

Nicolas Fugger, University of Cologne & ZEW Mannheim

Daniil Larionov, University of Munster

Marion Ott, ZEW Mannheim

Xiangyu Qu, Unviersity Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

 

Summer school in Economic Theory in Jerusalem (28 June- 7 July 2026)

 The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is once again planning its long-running summer school in Economic Theory (which was skipped last year, amidst war with Iran...)

The 35th Advanced School in Economic Theory - Recent Developments in Economic Theory
Sun, 28/06/2026 to Tue, 07/07/2026
 
General Director: Eric Maskin, Harvard University

Director: Elchanan Ben- Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 Speakers

Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University

Elchanan Ben- Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ben Brooks, The University of Chicago

Marina Halac, Yale University

Eric Maskin, Harvard University

Abraham Neyman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bruno Strulovici, Northwestern University

Omer Tamuz, Caltech

Alexander Wolitzky, MIT

"This year’s School features some of the most exciting recent results in economic theory presented by the researchers who discovered them "

Market Design in the Age of AI, this Friday at Stanford

 Market Design in the Age of AI
Friday, February 27, 2026 , 12:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa, 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

The Market Design in the Age of AI Conference aims to catalyze interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation at the intersection of algorithm design, economics, machine learning, and operations research. As market platforms become increasingly complex and data-driven, this conference brings together leading thinkers from both academia and industry to explore how AI is reshaping the design, analysis, and regulation of modern markets.

Our goal is to foster a vibrant community that bridges research and practice—advancing both the theory and real-world application of intelligent, efficient, and equitable market systems. Over time, we envision the conference serving as a launch pad for novel marketplaces and platform innovations that emerge from these collaborations.

Agenda (draft)

Start Time	End Time	Session	Speaker(s)
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Lunch & Registration
1:00 PM	1:15 PM	Opening Remarks	Amin Saberi, Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford; Computational Market Design Center Director
1:15 PM	1:45 PM	Economic Mechanisms in the GenAI Era: Advertising Auctions and Marketplaces	Aranyak Mehta, Distinguished Research Scientist, Google
1:45 PM	2:15 PM	Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars	Michael Ostrovsky, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2:15 PM	3:00 PM	GenAI for Markets	Amine Allouah, My Custom AI, Custom AI James Biggs, Sr. Director of Marketplace Ads & Monetization Products, Upwork Yossi Feinberg, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business Negin (Nikki) Golrezaei, Theresa Seley Associate Professor in Management Science, MIT Ruben Lobel, Product Data Scientist Lead, Waymo Okke Schrijvers, Research Scientist Manager, Meta
3:00 PM	3:15 PM	Break
3:15 PM	3:45 PM	TBA	Vahab Mirrokni, VP & Fellow, Google Research
3:45 PM	4:15 PM	Fireside Chat: The Economics of AI	Michael Schwarz, Corporate Vice President & Chief Economist, Microsoft Guido Imbens, Professor, Stanford University; Faculty Director, Stanford Data Science Amin Saberi, Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford; Computational Market Design Center Director
4:15 PM	4:45 PM	TBA	Ronnie Chatterji, OpenAI Chief Economist; Duke University Professor of Business & Public Policy
4:45 PM	5:00 PM	Closing Remarks
5:00 PM	6:20 PM	Networking Reception & Posters	View the Poster Map

 

Organizers

• Negin (Nikki) Golrezaei, MIT/Stanford
• Amin Saberi, Stanford

Poster Session Committee

• Mohammad Asadi, HAI Graduate Fellow
• Grace Guan, SDS Alumna (PhD in Management Science and Engineering)
• Andy Haupt, HAI Postdoctoral Fellow

Deadline tomorrow morning for Econometric Society conference on Economics and AI+ML

 Today's email announces a 9am Eastern time deadline tomorrow (that's 6am in California). And it looks like a fine conference.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE FEB. 10, 9:00 AM ET The 2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting June 16 - 17, 2026 Reminder: authors can update their submitted papers until the submission period ends. The Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontiers (ESIF) conference on Economics and AI+ML will be hosted by Cornell University, in Ithaca NY, on June 16-17, 2026. The purpose of the meeting is to foster interaction of ideas and methodologies from the areas of Computer Science and Economics (broadly defined, but with emphasis on AI and ML). The conference will feature keynote lectures and parallel sessions, bringing together scholars from both fields. Important Dates Submissions open: November 3, 2025 Paper Submission Period: November 3, 2025 – February 10, 2026 Decision Notification Deadline: March 22, 2026 Registration Period (for presenters): March 22, 2026-April 5, 2026 Preliminary Program Announcement: April 26, 2026 Conference dates: June 16-17, 2026 Keynote Speakers David Blei, Columbia University Mingming Chen, Google Timothy Christensen, Yale University Annie Liang, Northwestern University Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania Paper Submissions The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2026. Interested authors are encouraged to submit unpublished working papers or early drafts (more than 5 pages with results). Preference in the selection process will be given to complete papers. If you would like to submit a group of papers to be considered for the same session, please indicate the proposed session name in the comment section. While grouped submissions are welcome, please note that each paper will still be evaluated on its own merits. All papers and drafts must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the Oxford Abstracts submission platform.  Please use the appropriate submission link: Economist Track (Economics, Finance, Statistics, Marketing, Management) Computer Scientist track (Computer Science, Information Systems, and Operations Research/Operations Management) Submissions are open to all research that overlaps with both Economics and AI+ML. Each submission must select at least one content area from the drop-down menu. Note that the areas are partially overlapping; if in doubt, authors are advised to select those area(s) that best fit their paper. Also note that your submission details can be edited throughout the submission process up until the submission deadline of February 10, 2026. Please direct questions to esifaiml@gmail.com for more information, or visit the conference website. Program Committee Francesca Molinari and Eva Tardos (Cornell University; Co-Chairs) Nina Balcan, Carnegie Mellon University Sid Banerjee, Cornell University Dirk Bergemann, Yale University Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich Larry Blume, Cornell University Emma Brunskill, Stanford University Flori Bunea, Cornell University Giacomo Calzolari, European Universitary Institute Denis Chetverikov, University of California Los Angeles Tim Christensen, Yale University Bruno Crepon, CREST Costis Daskalakis, MIT Sarah Dean, Cornell University Laura Doval, Columbia GSB David Easley, Cornell Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv Christophe Gaillac, University of Geneva Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto Rotman Jason Hartline, Northwestern Nicole Immorlica, Yale and MSR Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Robert Kleinberg, Cornell University Anton Korinek, University of Virginia Elena Manresa, Princeton Mehryar Mohri, NYU, Google Xiaosheng Mu, Princeton University José Luis Montiel Olea, Cornell University Mallesh Pai, Rice David Parkes, Harvard David Pennock, Rutgers University Vianney Perchet, ENSAE Tuomas Sandholm, CMU Jon Schneider, Google Devavrat Shah, MIT Alex Slivkins, MSR Martin Spindler, Universität Hamburg Jörg Stoye, Cornell Vasilis Syrgkanis, Stanford Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan

 

MATCH-UP 2026, Paris 1-3 July, 2026, call for papers

 

MATCH-UP 2026

8th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences

NYU Paris, Paris, France

1-3 July, 2026

MATCH-UP is a series of interdisciplinary and international workshops on matching under preferences. The remit of these workshops is to explore matching problems with preferences from the perspective of algorithms and complexity discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization, game theory mechanism design and economics, and thus a key objective is to bring together the research communities of the related areas. Another important aim is to convey the excitement of recent research and new application areas, exposing participants to new ideas, new techniques, and new problems.

List of Topics

The matching problems under consideration include, but are not limited to:

• Two-sided matchings involving agents on both sides (e.g., college admissions, medical resident allocation, job markets, and school choice)
• Two-sided matchings involving agents and objects (e.g., house allocation, course allocation, project allocation, assigning papers to reviewers, and school choice)
• One-sided matchings (e.g., roommate problems, coalition formation games, and kidney exchange)
• Multi-dimensional matchings (e.g., 3D stable matching problems)
• Matching with payments (e.g., assignment game)
• Online and stochastic matching models (e.g., Google Ads, ride sharing, Match.com)
• Other recent applications (e.g., refugee resettlement, food banks, social housing, and daycare)

Invited speakers:
Itai Ashlahi – Stanford University
Irene Lo – Stanford MSE
Rebecca Reiffenhäuser – University of Amsterdam

Dates:
Submission deadline: February 15, 2026.
Notification: April 15, 2026.
Final registration: June 1, 2026

Organizers: CREST, ERC MADPART, Ecole polytechnique

 

Join the global call for change at DLE--Invitation to Cairo

  After being invited to this week's International Transplant Week in Egypt, , I was invited to invite others.

 (To hear my very brief invitation, which the conference published on Instagram, you may have to click on the speaker symbol in the lower right corner of the image.)

 

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Economics and CS (AI+ML) in Ithaca in June: call for papers

 Here's the announcement and call for papers from the Econometric Society

2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting

June 16 - 17, 2026
Ithaca, United States

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June 16-17, 2026
Cornell University Department of Computer Science and Department of Economics

We are pleased to announce the Economics and AI+ML of the Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontiers (ESIF) conferences. The 2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML2026) hosted by Cornell University Department of Computer Science, Department of Economics, and Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, will take place on June 16-17, 2026, in Ithaca, NY.

The Program Committee co-Chairs and host organizers are Francesca Molinari and Éva Tardos, from Cornell University.

Important dates

Submissions open: November 3, 2025
Paper Submission Period: November 3, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Decision Notification Deadline: March 22, 2026
Registration Period (for presenters) March 22, 2026-April 5, 2026
Preliminary Program Announcement: April 26, 2026

Plenary Lectures

David Blei
Columbia University

Mingming Chen
Google

Annie Liang
Northwestern University

Sendhil Mullainathan
MIT

Aaron Roth
University of Pennsylvania

Stefan Wager
Stanford University

 

 

Game theory in Brazil, July 26-Aug2: Call for papers

 Marilda Sotomayor forwards the following call for papers:

Game Theory scholar. 
It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS, to be held at the University of São Paulo, from July 26 to August 2, 2026.
The workshop will offer the participants the opportunity to interact with some of the most prominent researchers in Game Theory. We expect to have over 340 participants, with a majority of young scholars and including 5 Nobel Laureates: Robert Aumann, Roger Myerson, Alvin Roth, Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom. 
The week-long event will consist of minicourses, conferences and contributed papers sessions. The courses will start at an introductory level and will reach the frontiers of current research. Please direct questions to iwgtea2026@usp.br. 
To participate in the workshop, it is necessary to register on our website: https://www.iwgtea.fea.usp.br/, where you can also find more information on the conference. 
Limited financial aid for travel and accommodation expenses of up to 100 students or young researchers (who got his/her PhD in the last three years) will be provided. The candidate should refer to the information provided on our website. 
If you are interested in submitting a paper for presentation you should register on our website and submit it through the appropriate link. An extended abstract (up to 3 pages), or, if possible, a full paper, written in English, as well a short abstract (up to 200 words), are required. This paper will be made available for download on our website if your submission is accepted. Presentations should be made in English, the official language of the workshop. Acceptable formats for the files are PDF, PS and Word. Articles in all areas of Game Theory and its applications are welcome. 
 Please note that the deadline for paper submissions and remittance of the documents required to the young scholars is March 15, 2026. The selected candidates and articles will be announced by April 15, 2026. 
Early registration fee payment should be received by April 30, 2026. A late charge of 40% will be added after this date. Only those who have paid the registration fee by May 15, 2026, will be included in the program. The schedule of talks will be announced by the end of May.
We look forward to seeing you in São Paulo!
The Organizers
M. Sotomayor (USP), M. Bugarin (UNB), W. Maldonado (USP), R. Corbi (USP)
 

International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025

 I'm preparing to spend next week in Cairo at the Donate Life Egypt 2025 International Transplant Week, where I'll give a talk on Thursday.  But much of my preparation is for Wednesday, when something potentially much more exciting is scheduled.

 

 

Wednesday (Nov. 12) will be devoted to an attempt to reach a new Global Consensus on Emerging Ethical Frontiers in Transplantation: Innovations & Global Collaboration

I'll be involved in Working Group 4: Ethical Frameworks for Regulated International Collaboration
 

Co-Chairs

    Prof. Alvin Roth — Stanford University, USA
    Dr. Michael Rees — University of Toledo, USA
    Prof. Marleen Eijkholt — Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands

Scientific Committee Liaison / Editorial Lead

    Dr. Ahmed Elsabbagh — University of Pittsburgh, USA<

Members (alphabetical)

    Dr. Ali Obaidli — Department of Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Dr. David Thomson — University of Cape Town, South Africa
    Dr. Frederike Ambagtsheer — Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Dr. Gustavo Ferreira — University of São Paulo, Brazil
    Prof. Ignazio Marino — Thomas Jefferson University, Italy/USA
    Dr. Juan Navarro — Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands
    Dr. Lucrezia Furian — University of Padua, Italy
    Dr. Manuel Rodríguez — UNAM, Mexico (President of SPLIT)
    Dr. Mignon McCulloch — University of Cape Town, South Africa
    Dr. Nikolas Stratopoulos — Leiden UMC, Netherlands
    Dr. Vivek Kute — IKDRC-ITS, India
    Dr. Wendy Spearman — University of Cape Town, South Africa

It may be a long shot, but my hope is we can reach some consensus to replace the longstanding dogma that countries should be self-sufficient in transplantation.