Showing posts with label Nobel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel. Show all posts
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Honorary 7th dan black belt in JKA Shotokan karate, presented by Sensei Masataka Mori

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When I was an undergraduate at Columbia University, from the Fall of 1968 through the summer of 1971, I spent a lot of time practicing Sho...
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Monday, May 6, 2013

UCLA honors Lloyd Shapley, but closes CASSEL

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On Thursday I gave a department seminar at UCLA's department of Economics, and was glad to see this poster of Lloyd Shapley around campu...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Nobel Museum display

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Olof Somell writes to me from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm: Dear Professor Roth,  I would like to take the opportunity to thank yo...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013

American Math Monthly reprints Gale and Shapley 1962

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The journal is available on jstor and to members, but here is some of the front material. The paper itself is well worth reading, and I'...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Columbia Engineering (my alma mater) interview

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Here's the interview, called The ultimate matchmaker .
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Stanford's endowment: I benefit directly from parts of it

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An unusual thing about American universities is that they are largely financed by philanthropy. The oldest universities tend to have very b...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Pictures with President Obama

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Before the Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm, the five 2012 American Nobel laureates were invited to meet with President Obama in the Oval Offic...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

The American Gastroenterological Association takes note of the Nobel for market design

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The redesign of the match for Gastroenterology fellows is one of the projects mentioned in the Nobel documentation on p23 ), and the AGA tak...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Market design for everyone (from libertarians to socialists)

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Organized markets inevitably have rules, which establish the playing field rather than determine outcomes, which is what makes market design...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Mechanisms of Matching: Stability and Applications (Lars Ehlers in French in Ottawa)

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Lars Ehlers will be presenting a talk on Mechanisms of Matching: Stability and Applications, in connection with the 2012 Nobel prize. The a...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Death and privacy (and transplantation and market design)

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The latest issue of the AJT Report, a news summary in the American Journal of Transplantation, concerns The Unintended Consequences of Priva...
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Monday, January 7, 2013

Robert Aumann on Shapley and Roth and matching and market design

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Bob Aumann writes in the February 2013 Notices of the American Mathematical Society (in a column hosted by Elaine Kehoe):  Shapley and Roth ...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

Roberto Serrano on Lloyd Shapley

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I had the unexpected pleasure of running into Roberto Serrano and Vince Crawford in Stockholm, where they were guests of the Nobel Foundatio...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

More photography business in Stockholm

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My recent trip to Sweden made me of interest to a variety of professional photographers, and in turn gave me a glimpse into the ways they ea...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Video of Nobel prize awards ceremony

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I'm almost recovered from my trip to Stockholm:) Here is the video of the Nobel presentation ceremonies. Economics starts around 1:12. w...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Martin Shubik

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The celebration of Lloyd Shapley at the recent Nobel week naturally makes people think of his long term collaborator Martin Shubik. There...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Market design is a team sport

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Muriel Niederle has been posting some pictures from Stockholm , and here are some of mine... First, the final slide from my Nobel lecture:...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

David Warsh on Lloyd Shapley and his colleagues

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After a head feint towards another topic, David Warsh writes about Lloyd Shapley and his colleagues David Gale, Herb Scarf, and Martin Shub...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Gangnam Stanford Style

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

After dinner speech

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After the Nobel banquet, a two minute speech . Update: here it is on a local file...