STONY BROOK SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR

OF ROBERT AUMANN

April 26 - April 28, 2006

Lecture Hall II, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University

Robert Aumann receiving his Nobel Prize

April 26

Session 1. Chair: Dov Samet (Tel-Aviv University).
9:30 - 9:55 Eric Maskin (Princeton University). TBA
9:55 - 10:20 Daijiro Okada (Rutgers University). "Players with Finite Memory".

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break

Session 2. Chair: Barry O'Neill (UCLA)
10:40 - 11:05 Ori Haimanko (Ben Gurion University). Prizes versus Wages with Envy and Pride.
11:05 - 11:30 Jean-Francois Mertens (CORE). Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Session 3. Chair: Dirk Bergemann (Yale University).
1:30 - 1:55 Roberto Serrano (Brown University). An Economic Index of Riskiness.
1:55 - 2:20 Abraham Neyman (Hebrew University). Public Goods and the Budget Deficit.

2:20 - 2:40 Coffee Break

Session 4. Chair: Truman Bewley (Yale University).
2:40 - 3:05 Bernard de Meyer (University of Paris I). On the Strategic Origin of the Brownian Motion in Finance.
3:05 - 3:30 John Geanakoplos (Yale University). The Hangman's Paradox and Psychological Games.

Session 5. Chair: Benjamin Polak (Yale University).
4:00 - 4:25 Shmuel Zamir (Hebrew University). Leadership with Commitment to Mixed Strategies.
4:25 - 4:50 Srihari Govindan (The University of Iowa). TBA.

April 27

Session 1. Chair: John Nash (Princeton University).
9:30 - 10:05 Martin Shubik (Yale University). On Market Games and Strategic Market Games.
10:05 - 10:40 Herbert Scarf (Yale University). What has Happened to Some Early Work in which Bob Played a Very Important Role.

10:40 - 10:55 Coffee Break

10:55 - 11:30 Lloyd Shapley (UCLA). E-equivalence of non-cooperative strategic games.

April 28

Session 1. Chair: Elon Kohlberg (Harvard University).
9:30 - 9:55 Drew Fudenberg (Harvard University). Common Knowledge of Rationality in Games of Incomplete Information
9:55 - 10:20 Jinpeng Ma (Rutgers University). The Singleton Core in the College Admissions Problem and its Application to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break

Session 2. Chair: Olivier Gossner (CNRS, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques).
10:40 - 11:05 Ehud Kalai (Northwestern University). TBA
11:05 - 11:30 Sandro Brusco (Stony Brook University). Simultaneous Ascending Bid Auctions with Complementarities and Known Budget Constraints

Session 3. Chair: Warren Sanderson (Stony Brook University).
12:00 - 12:25 Yair Tauman (Stony Brook University). Collusion in one shot first price auctions.
12:25 - 12:50 Pradeep Dubey (Stony Brook University). Perfect Competition in a Bilateral Monopoly.