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:
Dan Friedman. His office hours are Tu Th 1-2:30 and by appointment, in 417 Engineering 2.
Barry Sinervo. His office hours are Tu Th 1-2 in Earth and Marine Sciences A409.
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!
Readings // All // //
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Venge // Posted on 2009-03-17
- Jean-Paul Rabanal's presentation on evolutionary dynamics of vengeance.
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football // Posted on 2009-03-17
- A pdf (small format) for the presentation on US football evolves
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2x2transitions // Posted on 2009-03-16
- Caleb C's presentation (w/Katherine H) on transitions between the standard 2x2 matrix games.
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GlobAbate // Posted on 2009-03-16
- Michael Singer's presentation on the global commons and joining abatement clubs.
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bees // Posted on 2009-03-14
- Presentation on the coevolution of bees and flowers
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congestion // Posted on 2009-03-10
- K. Hayden's presentation 3/10 on congestion games
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RiskyB // Posted on 2009-03-07
- Project presentation (pdf): Evolution of risky behavior in networks.
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2hd // Posted on 2009-03-07
- Presentation on Hawk-Dove: One and Two population games in continuous time
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Ch 5 // Posted on 2009-03-05
- A draft of Chapter 5 at last!
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Manfred // Posted on 2009-03-03
- Manfred Warmuth's presentation from March 3
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jm1 // Posted on 2009-03-03
- John Musacchio's guest lecture Feb 27 on the cost of anarchy and electrical circuits
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jm2 // Posted on 2009-03-03
- John Musacchio's guest lecture Feb 27 on net neutrality
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hauert // Posted on 2009-03-03
- The Hauert and Dobeli article in Nature mentioned in lecture March 3
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Pres Sched // Posted on 2009-02-25
- The current schedule for term project presentations
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guidelines // Posted on 2009-02-21
- Term project guidelines...be sure to read these as you put together drafts and presentations.
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mt ak // Posted on 2009-02-20
- Answer key to the midterm exam. Mean score was 68, high score was 90.
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Solutions to PS 2 // Posted on 2009-02-12
- These solutions were compiled by Katherine Hayden (problems 1 and 2), Cody Kennedy and Keith Henwood. See also the accompanying spreadsheets for the last 2 problems.
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Ss2.3 // Posted on 2009-02-12
- spreadsheet for PS2 problem 3
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Ss2.4 // Posted on 2009-02-12
- spreadsheet for PS2 problem 4
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Ch 4 // Posted on 2009-02-09
- Further updated. New sections includes an example calculation similar to what you are supposed to do for HW3, and an explication of runaway dynamics
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Syllabus // Posted on 2009-02-08
- An updated syllabus for the course.
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Ch 3 // Posted on 2009-02-08
- An update of this chapter, includes material on alternative dynamics and some corrections...
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bomze // Posted on 2009-02-05
- Bomze's classification of 3 strategy games. You need this for HW 3.
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bomze-c // Posted on 2009-02-05
- Corrections and cleanup from the original article of Bomze
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kirkpatrick // Posted on 2009-02-05
- Sexual selection breakthru article by Kirkpatrick discussed in class 2/5
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Lande // Posted on 2009-02-05
- A more advanced article on run-away sexual selection by Lande
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HW3 // Posted on 2009-02-05
- Homework 3, due in class Feb 12. Turn in one per group.
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RPSinNature // Posted on 2009-01-29
- Barry's RPS slides, discussed in class Jan 29
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PS 2 // Posted on 2009-01-26
- An updated version, but perhaps not yet final.
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Spreadsheet 1c // Posted on 2009-01-24
- Spreadsheet for problem I2.1
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spreadsheet 1a // Posted on 2009-01-24
- Spreadsheet for problem I1.4
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spreadsheet 1b // Posted on 2009-01-24
- Spreadsheet for problem I1.3
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Solutions to PS 1 // Posted on 2009-01-24
- These analytic solutions were distilled by Luba Petersen. The accompanying spreadsheets for discrete time replicator dynamics were distilled by Keith Henwood.
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Ch 2 // Posted on 2009-01-24
- A draft of chapter 2. Login to account: econ the password is biologists' jargon for payoff.
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PS1 // Posted on 2009-01-14
- The official version of Problem Set 1. It is due in class Tuesday Jan 20.
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Ch1 // Posted on 2009-01-14
- A draft of chapter 1. Login to account: econ the password is biologists' jargon for payoff. Updated with a new figure on meiosis.
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PS1b // Posted on 2009-01-14
- Hardy-Weinberg supplement for Problem Set 1. It will help you with problem I.4.
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