Talk by Bryce Wiedenbeck '08

On Monday November 11th at 4:30pm Bryce Wiedenbeck '08 will be visiting from the University of Michigan and giving a talk in Sci 240 on his PhD research area "Game Theory by Simulation." Bryce will be talking broadly about his research at Michigan and provide some insight into what CS graduate school is like coming from Swarthmore.

Additionally, Bryce is available for lunch to talk more specifically about grad school opportunities at the University of Michigan. We'll organize in the CS dept around noon for lunch at sharples.

research abstract

When self-interested agents interact, behaving optimally requires each agent to reason about how other agents will respond to its behavior, and how those responses will affect it. The field of game theory, which studies such interactions, has traditionally been the purview of economists, but is becoming increasingly relevant to computer science through networking, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Computer science also makes available new tools like large-scale simulations that expand the reach of game theory. This talk will discuss several research problems at the intersection of computer science and game theory.