Schedule

1/27/26
Game theory 1: Nash equilibrium
[ slides | notes | video ]

1/29/26
Game theory 2: Equilibrium computation
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/3/26
Game theory 3: Extensive-form games
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/5/26
Game theory 4: The price of anarchy
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/10/26
Social choice 1: Voting rules
[ slides | notes | video ]

2/12/26
Social choice 2: The epistemic approach to voting
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2/17/26
Social choice 3: Strategic manipulation in elections
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2/19/26
Mechanism design 1: The VCG Mechanism
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2/24/26
Mechanism design 2: Strategyproof approximation algorithms
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2/26/26
Fair division 1: Cake cutting
[ slides | notes | video ]

3/3/26 Midterm exam
[ solved exam ]

3/5/26
Fair division 2: Rent division
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3/10/26
Fair division 3: Indivisible goods
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3/12/26
Matching 1: Online matching algorithms
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3/24/26
Matching 2: Kidney exchange
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3/26/26
Matching 3: Stable matching
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3/31/26
Matching 4: Random assignment
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4/2/26
Social networks 1: Cascade models
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4/7/26
Social networks 2: Influence maximization
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4/9/26
AI connections 1: Minimax Theorem via no-regret learning
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4/14/26
AI connections 2: Feature attribution
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4/16/25
AI connections 3: Fairness in machine learning
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4/21/26
Embedded EthiCS: Welfare economics and distributive justice
Guest speaker: Matt Kopec
[ video ]

4/23/26
AI connections 4: Virtual democracy
[ slides | video ]

4/28/26
Brief talks by EconCS faculty
Speakers: Jakob de Raaij, Yannai Gonczarowski, Safwan Hossain, David Parkes