<div dir="auto">Thank you for forwarding! What is the date of the talk?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Aloni</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 5:37 PM Alexander Razborov via Theory <<a href="mailto:theory@mailman.cs.uchicago.edu">theory@mailman.cs.uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:GothamLight;font-size:18px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;float:left;width:907.5px;font-family:GothamLight"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.888889em;margin:30px 0px 0px;font-family:GothamExtraLight;color:rgb(128,0,0)">Colloquium: Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia)</h1></div></div><div role="main" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-bottom:60px;padding-top:30px;font-family:GothamLight;font-size:18px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;float:left;width:907.5px;padding-bottom:90px;font-family:GothamLight"><div id="m_1048087400302247919uchicago-events" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.111111em;font-family:GothamLight"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;margin-bottom:60px;font-family:GothamLight"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:GothamLight"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:GothamBook;font-size:0.777778em;line-height:1.875em;margin:0px 0px 1.5em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;text-transform:uppercase;font-family:GothamBook;color:rgb(0,0,0)">3:00–4:00 PM</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-family:GothamBook;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Eckhart Hall, Room 202</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:GothamBook;font-size:0.777778em;line-height:1.875em;margin:0px 0px 1.5em">Title: "Game Dynamics As The Meaning Of The Game"</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:GothamBook;font-size:0.777778em;line-height:1.875em;margin:0px 0px 1.5em">Abstract:  The modern era of game theory started with Nash's theorem in 1950, establishing that all finite games have a stable solution from which players will not deviate. When computer scientists embraced game theory four decades later, computational flaws of this concept came under scrutiny: The Nash equilibrium is not unique, and it is intractable to find one.  I will recount how three theorems, serendipitously proved during this past year, suggest an alternative meaning of the game:  A game can be seen as a mapping from a prior distribution of the players' behavior to the limit distribution under the dynamics of repeated play, and reasonable variants of this mapping can be computed efficiently.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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