Tuesday's seminar

[Statphys]

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR





Tuesday , 9 February   -   11:00 hrs.





Euler Lecture Hall - ICTP Leonardo Building - terrace level





Luca Dall'Asta    (I.C.T.P.)





"Game theory and networks"



Abstract



The framework of non-cooperative game theory has been recently  
extended to study strategic behavior in complex socio-economic  
networks.  However, the existence of a large number of (very  
different) Nash equilibria makes standard game theoretic analysis  
cumbersome and quantitatively less effective. On the other hand, it  
opens to the application of advanced theoretical and algorithmic  
techniques from the statistical mechanics of disordered systems.

I will discuss our recent results on the problem of free-riding in  
public goods games and on the emergence of collaborative equilibria.