Research Group

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Yosef Salmon

FELLOW
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yosef is a professor in the Department of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests are modern Jewish history, and the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe and in the Land of Israel.
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Gary Anderson

FELLOW
University of Notre Dame
Gary is a professor in the Department of Biblical Studies/Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests are the religion and literature of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, its reception in early Judaism and Christianity, biblical narrative, canonical ex
Eyal Benvenisti Leads New Center for Democracy Studies

Eyal Benvenisti Leads New Center for Democracy Studies

3 June, 2024

 

Eyal Benvenisti, a past fellow of IIAS, has inaugurated the Center for Applied Research on Risks to Democracy at Tel Aviv University. This center, which he heads, aims to identify and address the challenges facing contemporary democratic societies. Benvenisti emphasizes the importance of understanding and mitigating risks to democracy, promoting civic education, and fostering public engagement to rebuild trust and community cohesion in Israel and globally.

Algorithmic Game Theory: The Next Decade

[RG # 123] Algorithmic Game Theory: The Next Decade

March 1 - August 31, 2011

Organizers:

Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University)
Noam Nisan (The Hebrew University)

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The last decade has seen the emergence and growth of a new interdisciplinary field of research often termed "Algorithmic Game Theory". This field lies at the crossroads of computer science, game theory, and economics; a combination which is necessary for addressing many of the challenges posed by the Internet. Not only is this field full of intellectual excitement internally, and not only has it already begun to intellectually influence the three parent disciplines, but it also has significant implications for the Internet, as evidenced by the large number of researchers in the field hired by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

At the approximate age of ten years, it seems that the field of Algorithmic Game Theory is maturing. The goal of this group is to elucidate the main challenges of the field and attempt to chart the future course of the field for the next decade.

Some research topics that will be explored:

- Networks with contagious risk, the different aspects of how the evaluation of the Generalized Second Price mechanisms are used for selling ads on the Internet, and the understanding of the performance of simple auctions and modeling auctions used in practice (Eva Tardos)

- Interviewing in stable matching problems and cost-sharing mechanisms (Nicole Immorlica)

- Sketching valuation functions, the equilibria of simple market mechanisms, and optimal multi-item auctions (Noam Nisan)

- Auction design for agents with uncertain, private values (Anna Karlin)

- A general framework for computing optimal correlated equilibria in compact games, computing Nash equilibria of action-graph games via support enumeration, mechanical design and auctions, and computational equilibrium analysis of voting games (Kevin Leyton-Brown)

- Envy-free mechanisms for multiunit auctions with budgets, cost sharing games with capacitated network links, and game theoretic perspectives of the facility location problem (Michal Feldman)

- Bargaining in networks (Amos Fiat)

 

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Ronit Matalon

FELLOW
Haifa University
Ronit is a professor in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Haifa University. Her research interests are women in literature.
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Lionel Kochan

FELLOW
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
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Anna Karlin

FELLOW
University of Washington
Anna is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Fred Landman

FELLOW
Tel Aviv University
Manfred is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are: semantics in all its aspects; semantics of plurality; aspect and the semantics of the progressive; polarity sensitivity; event semantics; the Definiteness effect.