Our new course Game Theory II will be offered starting May 27, 2013. Given that we have just concluded Game Theory I we won't repeat it quite yet, but will do it next fall. Instead we will teach our four-week follow-on course, with slightly more advanced material, starting May 27.  You can register for the course at this link.

 

Our latest offering of Game Theory I just finished on Coursera. Congratulations to everyone who finished the course!

Popularized by movies such as "A Beautiful Mind", game theory is the mathematical modeling of strategic interaction among rational (and irrational) agents. Beyond what we call 'games' in common language, such as chess, poker, soccer, etc., it includes the modeling of conflict among nations, political campaigns, competition among firms, and trading behavior in markets such as the NYSE. How could you begin to model eBay, Google keyword auctions, and peer to peer file-sharing networks, without accounting for the incentives of the people using them?