Schedule

1/27/25
Game theory 1: Nash equilibrium
[ slides | notes | video ]

1/29/25
Game theory 2: Equilibrium computation
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/3/25
Game theory 3: Extensive-form games
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/5/25
Game theory 4: The price of anarchy
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/10/25
Social choice 1: Voting rules
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/12/25
Social choice 2: The epistemic approach to voting
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/19/25
Social choice 3: Strategic manipulation in elections
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/24/25
Mechanism design 1: The VCG Mechanism
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/26/25
Mechanism design 2: Strategyproof approximation algorithms
[ slides | notes | video ]

3/3/25
Fair division 1: Cake cutting
[ slides | notes | video ]

3/5/25 Midterm exam
[ practice exam | solutions | review session video | midterm exam (with solutions) ] 

3/10/25
Fair division 2: Rent division
[ slides | notes | video ]

3/12/25
Fair division 3: Indivisible goods
[ slides | notes | video ]

3/24/25
Matching 1: Online matching algorithms
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3/26/25
Matching 2: Kidney exchange
[ slides | notes | video ]

3/31/25
Matching 3: Stable matching
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4/2/25
Matching 4: Random assignment
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4/7/25
Social networks 1: Cascade models
[ slides | notes | video ]

4/9/25
Social networks 2: Influence maximization
[ slides | notes | video ]

4/14/25
AI connections 1: Minimax Theorem via no-regret learning
[ slides | notes | video ]

4/16/25
AI connections 2: Feature attribution
[ slides | notes | video ]

4/21/25
AI connections 3: Fairness in machine learning
[ slides | video ]

4/23/25
Embedded EthiCS
[ video ]

4/28/25
Brief talks by EconCS faculty
[ video ]

4/30/25
AI connections 4: Virtual democracy
[ slides | video ]

5/16/25
Final exam
[ practice exam | solutions ]