A G E N D A
INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
CONFERENCE ON ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND MECHANISM DESIGN
January 23, 24 & 25, 2009
LOCATION: SOCIAL SCIENCE PLAZA A, ROOM 2112
Friday, January 23
1:30 � 1:40 Opening Remarks by DONALD SAARI, Director of IMBS
1:40 � 2:30 KENNETH ARROW, Economics, Stanford
2:30 � 2:40 DISCUSSION
2:40 � 3:00 BREAK IN SSPA 2142
3:00 � 3:50 JOHN LEDYARD, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech
�Mechanism Design: New Challenges�
3:50 � 4:00 DISCUSSION
Saturday, January 24
9:00 � 9:50 DIRK BERGEMANN, Economics, Yale
�Robust Mechanism Design and Implementation�
9:50 � 10:00 DISCUSSION
10:00 � 10:50 ERIC MASKIN, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
�Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda�
10:50 � 11:00 DISCUSSION
11:00 � 11:15 BREAK IN SSPA 2142
11:15 � 12:05 JOHN DUGGAN , Political Economy, Rochester
�Political mechanism design�
12:05 � 12:15 DISCUSSION
12:15 � 1:45 LUNCH BREAK
1:45 � 2:35 TIM ROUGHGARDEN, Computer Science, Stanford
�Intrinsic Robustness of the Price of Anarchy�
2:35 � 2:45 DISCUSSION
2:45 � 3:35 SIMON LEVIN, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
� Complex adaptive systems, the Global Commons, and mechanism design�.
3:35 � 3:45 DISCUSSION
3:45 � 4:00 BREAK in SSPA 2142
4:00 � 4:50 ASU OZDAGLAR, Department of Computer Science, MIT
�Spread of Information and Misinformation in Social Networks�
4:50 � 5:00 DISCUSSION
Sunday, January 25
9:00-12:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION
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