| Number |
Lecture date |
Topic |
Pdf |
Scribers |
| 1 |
March 15 |
Introduction, Nash Equilibrium, basic definitions and examples |
 |
Meishar Meiri, Aviv Ghilai, Omer Kafri |
| 2 |
March 22 |
NE with mixed strategies, complexity of finding NE, zero-sum games, Min-Max theorem, atomic routing games |
 |
Oron Ashual, Matan Orland, Alon Resler, Jhonatan Tavori |
| 3 |
March 29 |
Atomic selfish routing, potential games, congestion games, hierarchy of equilibrium concepts |
 |
Vered Zilberstein, Elior Frig, Galia Shabtai |
| 4 |
April 19 |
Hierarchy of equilibrium concepts, smooth games, location games, |
 |
Naama Boer, Ofir Press, Lotan Faygler |
| 5 |
April 26 |
Best-Response dynamics, fast convergence to approx PNE in symmetric routing games, network cost sharing, strong PNE |
 |
Tal Schuster, Alon Kafri |
| 6 |
May 3 |
Single item auction, single parameter mechanisms, VCG mechanisms |
 |
Adar Zeitak, Yogev Bar-On |
| 7 |
May 10 |
Knapsack auction, the revelation principle, combinatorial auctions |
 |
Michal Keinbort, Shlomi Shamir, Kiril Solovey |
| 8 |
May 17 |
Single minded valuations, auctions of identical items, downwards sloping valuation functions |
 |
Moshe Shechner, Matan Yossef, Idan Shabat |
| 9 |
May 24 |
DSIC mechanism for multi-unit auction, market Equilibrium For General Products. |
 |
Efrat Abramovitz, Barak Gross |
| 10 |
June 7 |
Demand and value queries, ascending price auctions, gross substitute valuations, second price simultaneous single-item auction |
 |
Gal Ron, Yossi Tamarov |
| 11 |
June 14 |
PoA of simultaneous second price auction for unit demand and submodular bidders |
 |
Ofir Abramov, Gal Giladi |
| 12 |
June 21 |
Revenue maximization, prophet inequality |
 |
Matan Lachmish, Moria Cohen |
| 13 |
June 28 |
Combinatorial public projects problem |
 |
Jonathan Gradstein, Etay Livne |