[Colloquium] REMINDER: Talk by Silvio Micali Today

[Katie Casey]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street

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Speaker:	Silvio Micali

From:		MIT

Web page:	http://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/

Title: Resilient Mechanism Design

Abstract: Traditional mechanism design engineers a game G so that a desired property P holds at one or more of G's equilibria. But due to equilibrium selection and collusion, as well as computational complexity and privacy issues, it may fail to guarantee its desired properties.

We thus put forward an alternative, equilibrium-less, and more robust approach to mechanism design, and exemplify it for several classical problems.

(Based on various recent works with Jing Chen, Avinatan Hassidim, and Paul Valiant)
Please note that refreshments will be served prior to the talk at 2:30 in RY 255.
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