Events Calendar

2012 USC Game Theory & Human Behavior Symposium

Speaker: Robb Willer, Kevin Layton Brown, Jeff Brantingham, Sam Gosling, Brian Skyrms, Paul Zak, Tom Palfrey , USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Human Law and Politics, USC Game Theory and Human Behavior Group

Talk Title: The Behavoral Foundations of Game Theory

Abstract: Free, but please RSVP to janorkar@usc.edu by 4/15/2012 for both the event on 4/20/2012 and the reception on 4/19/2012 evening.


Agenda - 4/20/2012:

08:30 - 09:15 Registration and Breakfast

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome

09:30 - 10:15 Robb Willer, University California Berkely

10:15 - 11:00 Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia

11:00 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:00 Jeff Brantingham, University of California Los Angeles

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 Sam Gosling, University of Texas, Austin

14:15 - 15:00 Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:15 Paul Zak, Claremont Graduate University

16:15 - 17:00 Tom Palfrey, Caltech

Biography: Our effort is to create a campus-wide collaborative environment for Game Theory and Human Behavior promises to fuse the mathematics and formal approaches of the former with the wealth of social science insights of the latter to create new and necessary approaches for 21st century issues. The National Academy of Engineering has identified several Grand Challenge areas including preventing nuclear terror, advancing personalized learning, securing cyberspace and renewing urban infrastructure. All involve multiple decision-makers in game-theoretic and human behavior settings, thus requiring the fusion of mathematical, engineering and social sciences to make significant progress in addressing these challenges. USC is in the enviable position of being on the cusp of addressing these challenges. Over 50 faculty members have joined this effort from 13 schools and centers including the Annenberg School for Communication, the Gould School of Law, the Marshall School of Business, the College, the CREATE center, Center for Sustainable Cities, Center for Megacities, Center for Energy Informatics, Schaeffer Center for Health Economics and Policy, the School of Policy, Planning and Development, the Institute for Creative Technologies, the School of Architecture, and the Viterbi School of Engineering. We have expertise from architecture, civil and environmental engineering, computer science, economics, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, law, operations management, policy planning and development, psychology and sociology. While there have been some interdepartmental collaborations, we have not been able to connect to a degree necessary to expand our endeavors to the scope of solutions that the problems require. This effort on Game Theory and Human Behavior (GTHB) will create the momentum to overcome barriers by organizing a series of workshops, seminars, tutorials and courses culminating in a week of GTHB Showcase events that will highlight our first-year outreach and development efforts. The GTHB effort promises to put USC in a unique position to tackle many of the key challenges of the 21st century.

Host: Viterbi School, ISI, Marshall School, Annenberg School, Gould School, Dornsife

More Info: http://gthb.usc.edu/Events/

Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 101

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Mayuresh Janorkar

Event Link: http://gthb.usc.edu/Events/