[Theory] Re: math department colloquium by Papadimitriou

[Aloni Cohen via Theory]

Thank you for forwarding! What is the date of the talk?

Aloni

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 5:37 PM Alexander Razborov via Theory <
theory at mailman.cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Colloquium: Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia)
>
> 3:00–4:00 PMEckhart Hall, Room 202
>
> Title: "Game Dynamics As The Meaning Of The Game"
>
> 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.
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