Santa Fe Institute

Peter Schuster (University of Vienna; SFI External Professor)

John Martin (Visiting Research Associate, School of Advanced Research; Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University)

Joe Traub (Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Elhanan Borenstein (University of Washington; SFI External Professor)

Johan van Benthem (Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, University of Amsterdam)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Helmut Katzgraber (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

Didier Sornette (ETH Zurich)

Alaina Levine (National Geographic)

Michael Batty (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Call for submissions:

COMBINING INFORMATION THEORY AND GAME THEORY

From August 13 - August 17 the Santa Fe Institute and Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos will jointly host a "Theme week" on combining information theory and game theory.

Game theory formalizes information using partitions of the set of possible joint values of the problem's random variables. In contrast, information theory formalizes information using functions of the joint probability distribution governing those random variables. The goal of this workshop is to use these two formalizations of information as a starting point to achieve a deeper understanding of the role of information in strategic situations.  A more detailed description can be found here.

The focus of the week will be tutorials, break-out sessions, and provocational talks. Only a few talks on current research will be given - most of the time will be spent in forming new collaborations, discussions, and generating grant applications. About 35 people will attend in all.

Confirmed attendees include:

Kenneth Arrow
Christopher Sims
Carl Bergstrom
Lawrence Blume
James Crutchfield
Doyne Farmer
Benjamin Golub
Olivier Gossner
Joseph Halpern
Peter Hammerstein
Michael Lachmann
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Van Savage
David Sherrington
Yoav Shoham
Joel Sobel
Charles Stevens
Naftali Tishby

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Those interested in attending should please submit:

  i) What day of the week they were born;

  ii) A short abstract on material they could present if asked to (maximum of one page using 12 point font and double-spacing).

These materials should be sent to Ellie Vigil at ellie@lanl.gov by April 29. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Early career researchers, including postdocs and even graduate students, are particularly encouraged to apply. We hope to help with the travel expenses of some attendees.

To minimize our logistical overhead, acknowledgement of receipt of application materials should not be expected, nor should an email informing applicants if we will not be able to offer them attendance. We hope to send out our initial email offers by June 15.

Sincerely,

David Wolpert
on behalf of the organizing and program committees:

Nils Bertschinger
Luis Bettencourt
Yu-Han Chang
Simon DeDeo
Rajiv Maheswaran
Echekhard Olbrich
Eric Smith

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Herbert Maschner (Anthropology Research Professor; Director, Idaho Museum of Natural History; Director, Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Martin Davis (Professor Emeritus, Courant-NYU; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)

Troy Day (Professor and Canada Research Chair (TII), Mathematical Biology, Queens University)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Rob Wilson (Project Director, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada; Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato