First annual Aumann Lecture, May 19, at National Game Theory Conference at Tel Aviv University

I'll be giving the 2016 Aumann Lecture tomorrow at the (Israel) National Game Theory Conference at Tel Aviv University, 19-May-2016:  :

Here's the whole conference program:

 Main Lecture Hall: Trubovits Building, Ben Shemesh Hall (Room 308)
Additional Lecture Hall: Room 206
Aumann Lecture will take place at Lev Auditorium at 16:30.

9:00 – 9:30: Refreshments
9:30 – 9:35: Opening Words.
9:35 – 10:10: Plenary Talk: Ben Shemesh Hall
Ehud Lehrer (Tel Aviv University): Reward Schemes (with Dudu Lagziel)
10:10 – 10:25: Refreshments
10:25 – 11:25: Parallel Sessions
Session 1: Ben Shemesh Hall. Mechanism Design: organized by Assaf Romm and Avinatan Hassidim
 Moshe Babaioff (Microsoft Research): Networks of Complements (with Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan)
 Erel Segal Halevy (Bar-Ilan): A Random-Sampling Double-Auction Mechanism (with Avinatan Hassidim and Yonatan Aumann)
 Yannai Gonczarowski (HUJI and Microsoft Research): No Stable Matching Mechanism is Obviously Strategy-Proof (with Itai Ashlagi)
Session 2: Room 206.
 Dhruva Bhaskar (NYU): Tempting and Testing through Costly Monitoring
 Galit Ashkenazi-Golan (Tel Aviv University and Seminar Hakibutzim): What You Get is What You See: Repeated Games with Observable Payoffs (with Ehud Lehrer)
 Eilon Solan (Tel Aviv University): Acceptable Strategy Profiles in Stochastic Games.
11:25 – 11:40: Refreshments
11:40 – 12:40: Parallel Sessions
Session 3: Ben Shemesh Hall.
 Gaetan Fournier (Tel Aviv University): General distribution of consumers in pure Hotelling games
 Mehmet Ismail (University of Maastricht): Maximin Equilibrium: A Minimal Extension of Maximin Strategies
 Reshef Meir (Technion): Playing the Wrong Game: Smoothness Bounds for Congestion Games with Behavioral Biases (with David Parkes)
Session 4: Room 206.
 Avishay Aiche (University of Haifa): The Asymptotic Kernel in Smooth
Symmetric (with Benyamin Shitovitz)
 Ilan Nehama (HUJI): Analyzing Games with Ambiguous Player Types using the
MINthenMAX Decision Model
 Sophie Bade (Universiy of London and Max Planck Institute for Research on
Collective Goods, Bonn): Weak Dynamic Consistency
12:40 – 14:10: Lunch at Gan Hadkalim.
14:10 – 14:45: Plenary Talk: Ben Shemesh Hall.
Elchanan Ben-Porath (HUJI), Mechanism Design with Evidence
14:45 – 15:00: Refreshments
15:00 – 16:00: Parallel Sessions
Session 5: Ben Shemesh Hall
 İbrahim İnal (University of Edinburgh): Purification without Common Knowledge of
Priors
 Gilad Bavly (Bar Ilan University): Differentiation Games (with Amnon Schreiber)
 Sidartha Gordon (Siences Po): Information Choice and Diversity: The Role of
Strategic Complementarities (with Catherine Gendron-Saulnier)
Session 6: Room 206.
 Ram Orzach (Oakland University): Supersizing: The Illusion of a Bargain and the
Right-to-Split (with Miron Stano)
 Moran Koren (Technion): Bayesian Learning in Markets with Common Value (with
Itai Arieli and Rann Smorodinsky)
 Yaron Azriely (Ohio State University): Symmetric Mechanism Design (with Ritesh
Jain)
16:00 – 16:30: Refreshments
16:30 – 17:30: Aumann Talk, Lev Auditorium.
Alvin Roth (Stanford): Economists as Engineers: Game Theory and Market
Design

NBER Market Design: 2016 Methods Lectures, Tuesday July 26 (Abdulkadiroglu, Agarwal, Ashlagi, Pathak, and Roth)

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Nikhil Agarwal, Itai Ashlagi, Parag Pathak and I will be delivering a set of "Methods Lectures" on Market Design as part of the NBER Summer Institute sessions on Labor Economics, which will be held July 25-29, 2016 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge MA.
The program for the whole week is here, and below is the Tuesday afternoon Market Design program.

NBER Market Design: 2016 Methods Lectures
1:15 pm	Welcome
1:20 pm	Al Roth: Game Theory and Market Design
2:05 pm	Parag Pathak and Atila Abdulkadiroglu: Design of Matching Markets
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Parag Pathak: Research Design meets Market Design
3:45 pm	Nikhil Agarwal: Revealed Preference Analysis in Matching Markets
4:30 pm	Break
4:40 pm	Itai Ashlagi: Matching Dynamics and Computation
5:30 pm	Adjourn

Tomorrow at Stanford Hillel

I'll join Ken Arrow tomorrow, to help celebrate Stanford Hillel's 50th anniversary:

Community Open House: Something for Everyone

Saturday, April 2 @ 12:00 pm

	Learn about the economics of matchmaking with Professor Al Roth at 2:30 pm.

Following lunch at noon, long-time Hillel Director Rabbi Ari Cartun will be leading the community in Jewish learning. All levels of experience are welcome.

At 2:30 pm, we're excited to host esteemed faculty member Nobel Laureates for TED Talks at Hillel@Stanford. What do the Fiddler on the Roof classic, "Matchmaker," and economic theories have in common? Find out Saturday during a discussion on the economics of matchmaking with Al Roth. Join American economist, writer and political theorist Ken Arrow for his reflections on an academic life and the role of Judaism in it.

The Jewish Women's Theatre will lead a special performance entitled, "UNCUFFED" at 3:30 pm. JWT was co-founded by Stanford alumna Ronda Spinak, '80, "with the express purpose of developing stories written by Jewish women about their lives in America today," she said.

At 4:30 pm, former Hillel staff member Rabbi Mychal Copeland will discuss her book, Struggling in Good Faith, a multifaceted source book telling the story of reconciliation, celebration and struggle for LGBTQI inclusion across the American religious landscape. Rabbi Copeland was the rabbi at Hillel@Stanford for more than 10 years. She currently serves as Director of InterfaithFamily/Bay Area.

Click here for the full schedule and RSVP here for weekend events.

WHEN:

Saturday, April 2, 2016.
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

WHERE:

Hillel-Ziff Center, Stanford, CA 94305 Map

Who Gets What and Why? at Duke Law School (video: one hour including Q&A)

Here's a video of one of the talks I gave at Duke Law School last Wednesday, sponsored by The Duke Project on Law and Markets.



And here is a link to Kim Krawiec's blog post about this and my other talks at Duke on the same day: Our Day Of Market Design,

 It came with this picture:

And here is a link to some more pictures from Kim:
"Who Gets What And Why? Photos And Video

Our communications folk were out in full force for Al Roth’s lecture on Wednesday and have already posted some nice photos from the event and uploaded a video of the lecture to YouTube. "

Who Gets What and Why at the European School for Management and Technology in Berlin--video

Here's a video of a public lecture followed by a discussion (about half an hour each) about my book Who Gets What and Why, which just came out in German.   The location of the lecture was once an East German government building where the head of state had his office, and is now a business school, the European School for Management and Technology.  I was introduced by Gerhard Caspar, the head of the American Academy in Berlin and former president of Stanford. (My talk begins about minute 11:30 of the video, the discussion begins about minute 41, with Christoph von Marschall, Managing Editor of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, which touches on market designers in Germany, the legal barriers to kidney exchange there, and refugee resettlement.)

Who Gets What and Why at Duke Law School:

It looks like Duke Law School is seriously addressing the incentives of lecture-goers to arrive on time: lunch is served on a first come first served basis...

Al Roth: Who Get's What and Why?

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 • 12:30 PM • Law School 3037Duke Law Events

Alvin E. Roth, The Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and co-recipient, 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will discuss his book, "Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design." A bagged lunch will be served to attendees on a first come, first serve basis. Sponsored by The Duke Project on Law and Markets. Please contact Victoria Zellefrow (victoria.zellefrow@law.duke.edu) with any further questions.

I'll also speak at the Law and Markets faculty workshop, on global kidney exchange. Kim Krawiec is the host, and here's the title of her blog post yesterday: Tomorrow Is Al Roth Day!
(You can see why I can't resist her invitation to talk...)

Steine lecture at Vanderbilt

I'll be in Nashville today, speaking at Vanderbilt, in their Steine Lecture series.

Nobel Prize-winning economist will deliver Steine Lecture March 22

Alvin Roth

Alvin E. Roth, who shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, will discuss “Who Gets What and Why: The Economics of Matching and Market Design” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in Wilson Hall, Room 103. A reception will follow his talk, which is part of the Department of Economics’Steine Lecture Series.

Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He works in the areas of game theory, experimental economics and market design.

Roth is responsible for re-designing the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately 20,000 doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He also is one of the founders and designers of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange, which serves incompatible patient-donor pairs.

Roth is president-elect of the American Economic Association and served for many years as chair of the association’s Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, which has designed a number of recent changes in the market for new Ph.D. economists. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society and has been a Guggenheim and Sloan fellow. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

The David Steine Lectureship was established in 1978 by multiple donors to provide support for an annual lecture in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Science. The lecture honors former Vanderbilt professor David L. Steine and addresses an economic problem of interest to the general public.

Who Gets What and Why in Cologne: Wer kriegt was?

Today I speak in Cologne...

Nobel laureate Alvin E. Roth asks: Who Gets What – and Why?

Are you one of those people who believe that the word “market” only applies to large share deals? In Who Gets What – and Why, Alvin E. Roth, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory, shows us that market rules also apply when looking for a job or a school, or matching organ donors. Using specific examples, he explains how markets determine our lives – and how we can learn to use them to our advantage. Host: Nicole Bastian

 7:00pm  Börsensaal der IHK zu Köln, Unter Sachsenhausen 10-26, 50667 Köln

 Contributors

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Who Gets What and Why at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), in Berlin.

I'm in Berlin to speak about Who Gets What and Why...

Wednesday, March 09, 2016, 07:00 pm

Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

AMERICAN ACADEMY BOOK PRESENTATION

In his lecture, Alvin E. Roth shines a light on the everyday world of matching markets in diverse areas such as organ donation, public school choice programs, college admissions, employment, and online dating. Unlike commodity markets such as stocks and bonds, where price alone determines who gets what, in a matching market you are not free to choose but must also be chosen. Roth is in the forefront of the “market design” school, which aims to solve problems plaguing matching markets that are not “thick” enough (lacking sufficient participants) or suffer from “congestion” (an overwhelming range of options). As an example, he points out that over 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for kidney transplants, yet only about 11,000 non-directed kidneys become available each year. Using market design principles, Roth helped design the New England Program for Kidney Exchange. As another example, he examines the college application process, a vicious cycle in which, as students apply to more colleges, acceptance rates go down. After reading Roth’s book, readers may or may not make better matches, but they will better understand how matching markets work.

Moderated by Christoph von Marschall, Managing Editor, Der Tagesspiegel

In cooperation with Siedler Verlag and the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT).

Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design will be released
in March 2016 by Siedler Verlag as Wer kriegt was und warum? Bildung, Jobs und Partnerwahl: Wie Märkte funktionieren.

The lecture will take place at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin.

See also  ESMT Open Lecture und Buchpräsentation mit Wirtschaftsexperte und Nobelpreisträger Alvin E. Roth

W.P. Carey Lecture: Who Gets What and Why at Colorado College today

W.P. Carey Lecture:Who Gets What and Why 

with Nobel Laureate in Economics Alvin Roth

Presented by Colorado College at Cornerstone Arts Center Richard F. Celeste Theatre

February 4, 2016

Event Summary:Alvin Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University. Professor Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design. The topic of Professor Roth's lecture will be "Who Gets What and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design," also the topic of his most recent book. Books will be available for sale after the lecture. Reception following.

Who Gets What and Why: The Economics of Life Choices from School Admissions to Kidney Exchange: SFUEconomics (video)

A video of the Bank of Montreal Lecture I gave at Simon Fraser University in November is now available:

Centennial lecture at U of Illinois College of Business (video of lecture and of an interview)

Here (and below) is the video of the public lecture I gave in October, and an accompanying interview, as part of the Centennial celebration at the University of Illinois College of Business, where I had my first academic job in 1974.

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Videos of the Simons Institute lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory and Practice

The archived videos from Algorithmic Game Theory and Practice Workshop at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing can be found by clicking on the titles of individual talks on the schedule (below) or on the Simons Institute YouTube channel.

9:30 am – 10:10 am		Kidney Exchange: Algorithms and Incentives Alvin Roth, Stanford University
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Designing Online Advertising Markets Susan Athey, Stanford University
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Chiara Farronato, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		Business Model Analysis Kamal Jain, Faira.com
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm		The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets Steve Tadelis, UC Berkeley
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm		Dynamic Labor Supply in the Sharing Economy Chris Nosko, University of Chicago
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		Adverse Selection and Auction Design for Internet Display Advertising Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Machine Learning in an Exchange Environment R. Preston McAfee, Microsoft
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		From Theory to Practice in Auction Modeling Hal Varian, Google, Inc.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		Online Advertisements and Online Algorithms Nikhil Devanur, Microsoft Research
2:10 pm – 2:40 pm		Break
2:40 pm – 4:00 pm		On How Machine Learning and Auction Theory Power Facebook Advertising Eric Sodomka, Facebook

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		On-Line Systems with Long-Range Goals Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Decision Making at Scale: Platforms and Problems Ashish Goel, Stanford University
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Strong Truthfulness in Multi-signal Peer Prediction with Overlapping Tasks David Parkes, Harvard University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		The State of Techniques for Solving Large Imperfect-Information Games Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm		Security Games: Key Algorithmic Principles, Deployed Applications and Research Challenges(*) Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm – 4:00 pm		Robust Inference for Games via Theoretical Guarantees Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		An Evolutionary Model of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence Andrew Lo, MIT
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		The Design of Financial Exchanges: Some Open Questions at the Intersection of Econ and CS Eric Budish, University of Chicago
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Algorithmic Trading and Machine Learning Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:10 pm		Incentive Auctions and Spectrum Repacking Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
2:10 pm – 2:50 pm		Informational Substitutes and Complements for Prediction Yiling Chen, Harvard University
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm – 4:20 pm		Open Directions Session

Friday, November 20th, 2015

9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee & Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am		AGT and Machine Learning Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
10:10 am – 10:40 am		Break
10:40 am – 11:20 am		Bitcoin's Incentive Structure Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11:20 am – 12:00 pm		Dynamic Pricing in Ride-Sharing Platforms Ramesh Johari, Stanford University