Conference announcement: 30 Years of Game Theory at Institut Henri Poincaré, October 06-10, 2025, Paris.

Welcome

The Séminaire parisien de Théorie des Jeux is an open, inter-institutional, multi-disciplined seminar which covers all fields of game theory. It takes place on Monday from 11:00 to 12:00 am at Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 5ème. MAP

You will find the program for the current academic year on the page 2025/2026 and the program for past years on the page Archives.

The junior seminar welcomes PhD students in game theory to present their work.  You will find the program for the current academic year on the page Junior Seminar 2025/2026.

Next seminar:  

February 9, 2026 (room Pierre Grisvard):  

Jason D. HARTLINE (Northwestern): 11h-12h, will present "Regulation of Algorithmic Collusion"

Abstract: Consider sellers in a competitive market that use algorithms to adapt their prices from data that they collect. In such a context it is plausible that algorithms could arrive at prices that are higher than the competitive prices and this may benefit sellers at the expense of consumers (i.e., the buyers in the market). I will present a definition of plausible algorithmic non-collusion for pricing algorithms. The definition allows a regulator to empirically audit algorithms by applying a statistical test to the data that they collect. Algorithms that are good, i.e., approximately optimize prices to market conditions, can be augmented to collect the data sufficient to pass the audit. Algorithms that have colluded on, e.g., supra-competitive prices cannot pass the audit. The definition allows sellers to possess useful side information that may be correlated with supply and demand and could affect the prices used by good algorithms. I will present an analysis of the statistical complexity of such an audit, i.e., how much data is sufficient for the test of non-collusion to be accurate.

Organizers

Frédéric Koessler (CNRS, HEC Paris), frederic.koessler[at]gmail[dot]com

Maël Letreust  (CNRS,  IRISA Rennes), mael.le-treust[at]cnrs[dot]fr

Chantal Marlats (LEMMA, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas), chantal.marlats[at]u-paris2[dot]fr

Yannick Viossat (CEREMADE, PSL), viossat[at]ceremade[dot]dauphine[dot]fr

To join (or unsuscribe from) our mailing list, please contact Chantal Marlats at chantal.marlats[at]assas-universite[dot]fr. 

Former organizers

Joseph Abdou; Bernard De Meyer; Françoise Forges; Olivier Gossner;  Marie Laclau; Rida Laraki; Lucie Ménager; Vianney Perchet; Jérôme Renault; Dinah Rosenberg; Sylvain Sorin; Tristan Tomala; Xavier Venel; Nicolas Vieille; Guillaume Vigeral; Bruno Ziliotto