Econ/Cmps 166B /Bio176B // Prof. Dan Friedman

Game Theory and Applications II

A second course in modern game theory, with a focus on evolutionary games and spatial games, and on simulation techniques. Undergraduate students are expected to have completed the first course, Econ/Cmps166A /Bio 176A, or have an equivalent background.

This quarter, Winter 2009, the course will be held in conjunction with a graduate course in Evolutionary Game Theory. Undergraduates will join graduate students on teams that will undertake original research.

The instructors are:

Announcements

The final draft is due at high noon Tuesday March 17--deliver 2 copies to either instructor's office.

A first draft of the term project is indeed due on Feb 24. The penultimate draft (which will earn a significant portion of the project grade) is due March 3.

The midterm exam has been rescheduled to Tuesday Feb 17.

You can post and read project ideas on the Google group and use this facility to work with other members of your group.

For project ideas, look here, and for writeups of other projects from two years ago, look here.

This recent article on social behavior in ravens would have made an excellent term project for our class!

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