Decisions, Games, & Logic Workshop

Second Workshop in
Decisions, Games & Logic '08
June 30 - July 2, 2008, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Amsterdam


Programme

Monday, 30th June

Room P0.17, Euclides Building. More information

09.30 Welcome and registration. Tea & Coffee.

10.00 - 11.15 Jim Joyce (University of Michigan): Tutorial in Decision Theory I, Download slides

Tea & Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.45 Jim Joyce (University of Michigan): Tutorial in Decision Theory II, Download slides

Lunch Break

14.00 - 14.25 Kai Spiekermann (Warwick): "Repeated Multi-Person Games on Dynamic Networks: Does Network Topology Matter?" (Slides)
  • 14.25 - 14.35 Comments by Nicole Immorlica (CWI Amsterdam)
  • 14.35 - 14.45 Discussion
14.45 - 15.10 Ramzi Ben Larbi (CRIL-CNRS Artois): "A Characterization of an Optimality Criterion for Decision Making under Complete Ignorance"
  • 15.10 - 15.20 Comments by Constanze Binder (University of Groningen)
  • 15.30 - 15.40 Discussion
Short Break

15.50 - 16.15 Fernando R. Velazquez-Quesada (ILLC): "Inference and Update"
  • 16.15 - 16.25 Comments by Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen)
  • 16.25 - 16.35 Discussion
Tea & Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.30 Panel debate: Conditionals in Decisions, Games & Logic.
  • Invited Speaker: Richard Bradley (LSE)
  • Comments by Paul Egré (Paris).
Drinks

Tuesday, 1st July

Room P0.14, Euclides Building. More information

10.00 - 11.15 Oliver Board (Pittsburgh): Tutorial in Game Theory I, Download slides

Tea & Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.45 Oliver Board (Pittsburgh): Tutorial in Game Theory II, Download slides

Lunch Break

14.00 - 15.15 Eric Pacuit (Stanford): Tutorial in Logic I

Tea & Coffee Break

15.30 - 16.45 Eric Pacuit (Stanford): Tutorial in Logic II

Tea & Coffee Break

17.00 - 17.25 Jonathan A. Zvesper (ILLC Amsterdam): "Conditional Doxastic Logic and Dynamic Rationality in Extensive Games"
  • 17.25 - 17.35 Comments by Oliver Board (Pittsburgh)
  • 17.35 - 17.45 Discussion
17.45 - 18.10 Christian W. Bach (HEC Lausanne) and Conrad Heilmann (LSE): "Connectedness, Backward Induction and Forward Induction"
  • 18.10 - 18.20 Comments by Eric Pacuit (Stanford)
  • 18.20 - 18.30 Discussion
Dinner in Cafe Koosje

Wednesday, 2nd July

Room P0.19, Euclides Building. More information

10.00 - 10.25 Mauro Rossi (LSE): "Interpersonal Utility Comparisons - The Epistemological Problems"
  • 10.25 - 10.35 Comments by Tom Cunningham (Centre for Economic Performance, LSE)
  • 10.35 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.10 Franz Dietrich (Maastricht & LSE): "The Premises of Condorcet's Jury Theorem are not Simultaneously Justified" (Slides - Full paper)
  • 11.10 - 11.20 Comments by Olivier Roy (University of Groningen)
  • 11.20 - 11.30 Discussion
Tea & Coffee Break

12.00 - 12.30 Short presentations I
  • 12.00 - 12.10 Ittay Nissan (LSE): Objective Probability in Decision Theory: The Case of the Absent-Minded Driver Paradox
  • 12.10 - 12.20 Tijmen R. Daniels (Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam): "On Pure-Strategy Dominance Solutions of Quasiconcave Quasisupermodular Games"(Handout)
  • 12.20 - 12.30 Conor Mayo-Wilson (Carnegie Mellon): "Mixed Strategies in Formal Learning Theory and Ockham's Razor"
Sandwich Lunch and Individual Discussion

14.00 - 14.30 Short presentations II
  • 14.00 - 14.10 Alexandre Thiercelin (UMR-CNRS Lille): "Conditionals, Conditional Rights and Agency Strategies: Elements for a Connection"
  • 14.10 - 14.20 Roberto Fumagalli (LSE): "Social Decisions and the Locus of Value"
  • 14.20 - 14.30 Pelle Guldborg Hansen (Roskilde): "Reasoning about reasonable strategy sets for games of convention" (Slides)
Tea & Coffee and Individual Discussion

15.00 - 15.30 Short presentations III
  • 15.00 - 15.10 Reza Mahmoodshahi (Carnegie Mellon): "Small Worlds and State Dependent Utility" (Slides)
  • 15.10 - 15.20 Martin Mose Bentzen (ILLC Amsterdam & Roskilde): "Responsibility Formalized"
  • 15.20 - 15.30 Francois Schwarzentruber (IRIT Toulouse): "A non-normal geometric logic related to the coalition logic"
Individual discussion

16.00 Closing remarks by Johan van Benthem (ILLC & Stanford).