Program

Tuesday August 29

From 18:00 Drinks at Amstelhaven

Wednesday August 30

8:30 Everyone welcome, quasi official hello

9:00 – 10:30   

Marta Couto Introspection dynamics: properties, applications, and connections to other learning models

Lionel Page Strategic self-beliefs

Jonathan Newton Good biases in misspecified learning

11:00 – 12:30

Sayan Mukherjee Equilibrium selection via stochastic evolution in continuum potential games 

Jean-Baptiste André Adaptive parsimony as an evolutionary solution to the equilibrium selection problem

Saptarshi Pal A model of plausible deniability

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30

Ben Allen Natural selection for collective action

Aviad Heifetz The disperser dilemma in cooperatively breeding birds

15:55 Intro

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote Sarah Brosnan:

Comparative Economics: Understanding the evolution of primate decision-making using experimental games

Thursday August 31

9:00 – 10:30   

Boyu Zhang Information, past experience, and long-run outcomes in network coordination games: experimental evidence 

Péter Bayer Evolutionarily stable networks 

Heinrich H. Nax Walrasian competitive equilibrium in large-scale experimental studies: a comparison of existing evidence of competitive market behavior

11:00 – 12:30

Patrick Chang A folk theorem from learning in games

Fryderyk Falniowsk Heterogeneity, reinfocement learning and chaos in population games

Arthur Dolgopolov Reinforcement learning in a prisoner’s dilemma

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Christian Hilbe Evolutionary instability of selfish learning in repeated games

Christopher Graser Repeated games with errors: how much forgiveness, and how much cooperation? 

Chiara d'Arcangelo Don’t trust strangers, don’t betray friends. Strategies for repeated social dilemmas when the end is in sight

15:55 Intro

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote Robert Frank

The evolution of cooperation

Evening: Dinner at Entrepot

Friday September 1

9:00 – 10:30   

Zhiwei Cui Link complementarity and social coordination

Xiaomin Wang Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations

Vikas Chaudhary A mechanism and matching in a social dilemma

11:00 – 12:30

Yannick Viossat Game dynamics and irrational behaviours: elimination and survival of dominated strategies under evolutionary game dynamics

Yating Shen Adaptive behaviour in an epidemic: an evolutionary approach

David Jimenez-Gomez The evolution of self-control in the brain

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Johannes Leutgeb Evolving managers

Matthijs van Veelen Evolution and the ultimatum game

Francesco Conti Evolutionary effect of institutions on preferences

15:55 Intro

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote Louise Barrett

Levels of Cooperation among Monkeys, and some hidden costs and benefits of sociality