Class 18: Project Ideas

Students presented ideas for their final projects.

Class 17: Class Meeting

We discussed plans for the semester and course projects.

Zoom Link

The link for our zoom class meetings is: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/237871483.

Everyone should have received the message on slack and email about our plans for the rest of the semester.

Class 16: Auction Results, Project Ideas

Slides Class 16 Slides (PDF) Project Ideas The Team and General Idea for your final project is due Thursday, 19 March (ready to present in class that day). Your team should be prepared to present a few slides with: Name of your project List of your team members Purpose of your project: how it satisfies the four project desiderata What you plan to do What you hope the outcome will be Links Here are links to some of the ideas and resources I presented in class.

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Class 14: Poker Wrap-up, Auction Theory

Slides

Poker Game Wrap-up (PDF)

Class 14 Slides (PDF)

Class 15: In-Class Auction, Auction Theory

In-Class Auction

Congratulations to Kiara Gan, Aaron Ho, Rashid Lasker, and Eli Lifland for winning the Project 4 Auction!

It was a close competition with Team 6 (Anna Davis, Sally Greenberg, Chris Puglisi, Courtney Jacobs) and Team 3 (Maxwell Patek, Nicolas Izurrategui, Muxuan Yan, and Nate Strawser) tied for second.

We’ll have some more results and analysis from the auction in class Thursday.

Slides

Class 15 Slides (PDF)

Class 13: Auction Theory

Slides

Class 13 Slides (PDF)

Project 4

Project 4 is now posted, and is due on Tuesday, 3 March, 9:29am.

Class 12: Imperfect Information Games

Kidney Exchange Champions Congratulations to the winners of the Kidney Exchange Challenge: Bronze Kidney Rashid Lasker Eli Lafland Aaron Ho Kiara Gan Gold Kidney (Tie for First Place) Margaret Cheng Sophia Cheung Yilin Huang Yutong Zhong Brienne Tyler Christian Paget Shen Yan Will Define Slides Slides (PDF) We will finish finding the optimal strategy next class! Links John F. Nash, Jr. Equilibrium Points in N-Person Games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Class 11: Game Theory

Slides

Slides (PDF)

John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. 1944.

Ran Canetti and Alon Rosen, Basics of Game Theory (lecture from Crytography and Game Theory course, November 2009.