CS/Econ Seminar

Welcome to our weekly seminar series! Below is a list of previous talks. Please reach out to me if you are interested in giving a talk!

Past Talks

📅 May 15, 2025

Speaker: Mohan Dantam
Title: Finite-memory Strategies for Almost-sure Energy-MeanPayoff Objectives in MDPs

📅 May 1, 2025

Speaker: Aris Filos-Ratsikas
Title: Consensus Halving

📅 April 3, 2025

Speaker: Charalampos Kokkalis
Title: Equilibrium Computation in First-Price Auctions with Correlated Priors

📅 March 27, 2025

Speaker: Kat Molinet
Title: Introduction to stablecoins

📅 March 20, 2025

Speaker: Giorgos Kalantzis
Title: Mechanisms for selling an item among a strategic bidder and a profiled agent

📅 March 6, 2025

Speaker: Aloia Iglesias
Title: Fair Allocation of Indivisible Goods

📅 February 27, 2025

Speaker: Khalid Belhadj
Title: Simulating Strategic Auctions

📅 February 20, 2025

Speaker: Kat Molinet
Title: Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain: A Primer

📅 February 6, 2025

Speaker: Adam Dunajski
Title: Facility Location Problem with Ordinal Customer Preferences

📅 January 16, 2025

Guest Speaker: Daniel Kadnikov (Alan Turing Institute, University of Liverpool)
Title: Informational Aspects of Strategic Forms

📅 December 9, 2024

Guest Speaker: Minas-Marios Sotiriou (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Title: EFX in Multigraphs

📅 November 28, 2024

Speaker: Jakub Dargaj
Title: Approximate Mechanisms without Money for Facility Location

📅 November 21, 2024

Speaker: Gabriel Ziegler
Title: An overview of epistemic game theory

📅 November 14, 2024

Speaker: Aris Filos-Ratsikas
Title: Total Search Problems in Game Theory and Economics

📅 November 7, 2024

Speaker: Adam Dunajski
Title: Friendship-Based Hedonic Games with Coalition Size Constraints

📅 October 24, 2024

Speaker: Charalampos Kokkalis
Title: Autobidding Auctions

📅 October 17, 2024

Speaker: Giorgos Kalantzis
Title: Learning-Augmented Design of Algorithms & Mechanisms

📅 October 10, 2024

Speaker: Mohamad Latifian
Title: Distortion in Social Choice Problems

📅 June 4, 2024

Speaker: Kousha Etessami
Title: The complexity of computing a Tarski fixed point of a monotone function, with applications to games and equilibria. (part 2)

📅 May 28, 2024

Guest Speaker: Alexandros Hollender (University of Oxford)
Title: Constant Inapproximability for Fisher Markets

📅 April 23, 2024

Speaker: Sreedurga Gogulapati
Title: Participatory Budgeting under Ties

📅 April 16, 2024

Speaker: Natsu Ozawa
Title: Implementing Irving’s Algorithm for Optimal Stable Matching

📅 March 19, 2024

Speaker: Kousha Etessami
Title: The complexity of computing a Tarski fixed point of a monotone function, with applications to games and equilibria. (part 1)

📅 March 12, 2024

Speaker: Charalampos Kokkalis
Title: On the Computation of Equilibria in Discrete First-Price Auctions

📅 March 5, 2024

Speaker: Aris Filos-Ratsikas
Title: A general approach for obtaining approximately-EFX allocations (part 2)

📅 February 27, 2024

Speaker: Aris Filos-Ratsikas
Title: A general approach for obtaining approximately-EFX allocations (part 1)

📅 February 20, 2024

Guest Speaker: Rachael Colley (University of Glasgow)
Title: Measuring and Controlling Divisiveness in Rank Aggregation

📅 February 6, 2024

Speaker: Kat Molinet
Title: Measuring and Controlling Divisiveness in Rank Aggregation

📅 January 30, 2024

Speaker: Demetris Konstantinou
Title: Computational fair division of indivisible goods

📅 January 23, 2024

Guest Speaker: Giannis Tyrovolas (University of Oxford)
Title: Unravelling Expressive Delegations: Complexity and Normative Analysis