CMSC 828N, Game Theory - Spring 2009

• Tue Jan 27
  • campus closed, hence no class
• Thur Jan 29
  • Dana Nau - Introduction
• Tue Feb 3
  • Dana Nau - Game tree search
• Thur Feb 5
  • Dana Nau - Non-zero-sum games
• Tue Feb 10
  • Dana Nau - Repeated games
• Thur Feb 12
  • form your teams by this date
  • Patrick Roos: evolutionary games [1]
• Tue Feb 17
  • Ryan Carr: opponent modeling [1, 2, 3]
  • Brandon Wilson: opponent modeling [1, 2]
• Thur Feb 19
  • Dan Bucatanschi: imperfect-info game trees [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • David Kelley: poker [1, 2, 3]
• Tue Feb 24
  • Wenxin Qiao: transport network reliability [1, 2, 3]
  • Yang Lu: dynamic traffic pricing
• Thur Feb 26
  • Charles Glover: combinatorial games
• Fri Feb 27
  • term-project proposals due at 5pm
• Sun Mar 1
  • late proposals (5% off) due at 5pm
• Tue Mar 3 - proposal presentations
  • Cho, Gregory, & Teoh
  • Kelley & Adelfio
• Thur Mar 5 - proposal presentation
  • Acuna-Avendano, Bucatanschi, & Sengupta
• Tue Mar 10 - proposal presentations
  • Carr, Roos, & Wilson
  • Lampton & Rouff
• Thur Mar 12 - proposal presentations
  • Qiao, Lu & Olarte
  • Sefer & Raboin
• Mar 16-20
  • spring break
• Tue Mar 24
  • Emre Sefer: Nash equilibria
  • James Lampton: TD-Gammon
• Thur Mar 26
  • David Rouff: voting systems
  • Eric Raboin: strategic uncertainty
• Tue Mar 31
  • Machon Gregory: rationality and aggression [1, 2]
    Marco Adelfio: GGP [1, 2, 3]
• Thur Apr 2
  • Ranit Sengupta: stochastic games
  • Lucia Acuna-Avendano: coalitional games
• Tue Apr 7
  • Hyoungtae Cho: bounded rationality
  • Alison Teoh: metareasoning [1, 2]
• Thur Apr 9
  • Rafael Olarte: the Trading Agents Competition
  • Dana Nau: examples of mechanism design
• Tue Apr 14
  • guest lecture by Mihai Pop
    evolutionarily stable strategies
• Thur Apr 16
  • guest lecture by Dave Levin
    game-theoretic analyses of computer networks [1, 2]
• Tue Apr 21
  • guest lecture by Bill Gasarch
    Richman games
• Thur Apr 23
  • guest lecture - Peter Cramton
    spectrum auctions
• Sat Apr 25
  • term projects due at 5pm
• Mon Apr 27
  • late projects (5% off) due by 5pm
• Tues Apr 28 - term-project presentations
  • Lampton & Rouff
  • Carr, Roos, & Wilson
• Thurs Apr 30 - term-project presentations
  • Adelfio & Kelley
  • Cho, Gregory, & Teoh
• Tue May 5 - term-project presentations
  • Lu, Olarte, and Qiao
  • Raboin & Sefer
• Thur May 7 - term-project presentations
  • Acuna-Avendano, Bucatanschi, & Sengupta
• Tue May 12 - TBA

Links

• Discussion forum - please subscribe
• Syllabus for this course
• Papers - research papers, etc.
• Term-project reports

Notes on technical writing

• Bartleby.com: English Usage, Style & Composition
• Paul Brians: Common Errors in English
• EU translation service: How to write clearly
• Jack Lynch: Guide to Grammar and Style
• H. J. Tichy: Passive voice and the word "I"
• Jeffrey Veen: Seven steps to better presentations
• Edward R. Tufte’s Presentation Tips