22-23 June 2015
Maastricht, The Netherlands
In 2015, our EPICENTER will organize the second EPICENTER Spring Course in Epistemic Game Theory Maastricht University, June 8 ? June 19, 2015 followed by EPICENTER Mini-course on Games with Unawareness by Burkhard Schipper June 22-23, 2015 Registration: If you want to participate, please send an E-mail to Andrés Perea at: course@epicenter.name<mailto:course@epicenter.name> The course is free, so there is no registration fee. Please indicate whether you want to participate in the epistemic game theory course, the mini-course on unawareness, or both. Also clearly state your university, type of student or position (bachelor-, master- or PhD student, or researcher), and your background/field of expertise. Credits: At the end of the course there will be an exam, which is optional. So, you are free to participate without doing the exam. If you pass the exam, you will earn 6.5 ECTS for this course. Everybody who participates in this course will get an official certificate from the EPICENTER and our university. If you pass the exam, you will get a special certificate saying that you are entitled to 6.5 ECTS from your home university. About the course: Epistemic game theory is a modern and blooming approach to game theory where the reasoning of people is at center stage. More precisely, it investigates the beliefs that people form ? about the opponents? choices, but also about the opponents? beliefs ? before they make a decision. This course offers a deep introduction into the beautiful world of epistemic game theory, and is open to advanced bachelor students, master students, PhD students and researchers all over the world. For more information about the course, together with a full program of the course, please visit our course website: http://www.epicenter.name/springcourse/ Previous edition: In 2014 we gave the EPICENTER Spring Course in Epistemic Game Theory for the first time. It was a big success, with 21 highly motivated students from all across Europe (see picture below). We hope the 2015 edition will be at least as good. Poster and brochure: Attached to this E-mail you find the poster and the brochure for this course. It would be nice if you could print out the poster and put it on the publication board of your department. Mini-course on Games with Unawareness: Unawareness refers to the lack of conception rather than the lack of information. Players may be unaware of certain features of the game like payoff-relevant events, actions, or even other players. Moreover, in dynamic interaction, a player's awareness of these features may change endogenously as other players may make her aware of some of it for strategic reasons. Unawareness has been explored in epistemic logic and game theory only recently. For more information about the EPICENTER Mini-Course Series, please visit our website: http://www.epicenter.name/mini-courses/ Burkhard Schipper (University of California at Davis, USA) is one of the world?s leading experts on unawareness in games, and has done some important pioneering work in this area. We are certain his mini-course will be inspiring for everyone with an interest in decision theory, game theory or logic. For more information about Burkhard Schipper, please visit his website: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/schipper/ Forward: Please forward this message to all people whom you think might be interested. Registration: If you want to participate, please send an E-mail to Andrés Perea at: course@epicenter.name<mailto:course@epicenter.name> The course is free, so there is no registration fee. Please indicate whether you want to participate in the epistemic game theory course, the mini-course on unawareness, or both. Also clearly state your university, type of student or position (bachelor-, master- or PhD student, or researcher), and your background/field of expertise. Questions? Please send an E-mail to Andrés Perea at: course@epicenter.name<mailto:course@epicenter.name> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek University of Liverpool http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/ tel (+44) 7970247480 wiebe@liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:wiebe@liverpool.ac.uk>