Announcements
Class meets Tu March 10 in Rm 203 of the Coastal Biology Building.
Evolutionary Game Theory
The class is a second course in modern game theory with applications in the social sciences as well as in biology and computer science. The focus is evolutionary games and spatial games, and simulation techniques. Undergraduate students are expected to have completed the first course, Econ/Cmps166A /Bio 176A, or have an equivalent background. It is held in conjunction with the graduate course Econ/Cmps 272.
The primary text is Evolutionary Games in Natural, Social and Virtual Worlds by Friedman and Sinervo [denoted FS below], Oxford University Press, 2016. Supplementary texts include Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics by William Sandholm (MIT Press, 2010), Evolutionary Dynamics by Martin Nowak (Harvard University Press, 2006) and an undergraduate game theory text such as Games, Strategies and Decision Making by Joseph Harrington (Worth Publishers, 2009) or Strategy by Joel Watson (Norton, 2008). The supplementary texts will be on 2-hour reserve at the Science Library. Other materials will appear on the class website.
A message from DRC. UC Santa Cruz is committed to creating an academic environment that supports its diverse student body. If you are a student with a disability who requires accommodations to achieve equal access in this course, please submit your Accommodation Authorization Letter from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to me privately during my office hours or by appointment, preferably within the first two weeks of the quarter. At this time, we would also like us to discuss ways we can ensure your full participation in the course. We encourage all students who may benefit from learning more about DRC services to contact DRC by phone at 831-459-2089 or by email at drc@ucsc.edu.
The class meets Tu Th 11:40 – 1:15pm in 165 JBE. Office hours are W 2-4pm in 417 Engineering 2 for Dan, and 10am-noon Wednesdays for Barry in 270 Coastal Biology Building, 130 McAllister Way, Coastal Science Campus.
Readings
Due dates.
Fourth problem set is due in class Tuesday, Feb 4.
- Notes on life-cycle games and plasticity // Posted on Feb. 20, 2020
- Notes for Barry’s Feb 20 lecture, related to Chapter 9 of the text.
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- Practice problems (2017 Midterm) answer key // Posted on Feb. 9, 2020
- Answer key for 2017 midterm exam…
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- Slides for 2/4/20 lecture // Posted on Feb. 8, 2020
- Slides for Barry’s Feb 4 lecture, featuring lizards in cellular automata.
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- PS 4 answer key // Posted on Feb. 7, 2020
- Thanks to Yatong, Yilin, Reilly and Jialu, here are answers to the problems. The Einstein convention is to sum over a repeated index in subscripted expressions.
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- R code for CA // Posted on Feb. 6, 2020
- Barry’s R code for plotting dynamics in cellular automata
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- email ad for teaching summers school at JHU // Posted on Feb. 3, 2020
- Dear Dr. Friedman,Greetings from the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University, I hope this finds you well. Here at CTY we offer summer academic programs for academically talented pre-collegiate students, giving them the chance to engage with advanced—often college-level—material at a young age. We’re just getting going with recruiting and hiring faculty and staff for our summer program this year, and we wanted to start by reaching out to some colleagues who’ve taught courses recently that’d be of use in our hunt for good candidates.In particular, we have a few courses that focus on introducing students to game theory. We have both teaching assistant (typically strong undergraduates or sometimes graduate students who do not yet have teaching experience) and instructor (typically graduate students or above who have independent teaching experience) openings available. I noted that it looks like you taught Game Theory and Applications I in the Fall term of 2019 (at the least), so I figured I would reach out to see if you had any strong students or perhaps a TA for the course or from any others that you think might be well suited to working with kids.I am happy to have you forward my email along directly to anyone you think might be worth considering. They can find more information, including our online application, at our website here. Additionally, I have included some information below about where some of our openings are located (we provide room and board to make it simple for our staff so people don’t have to live right nearby).Sincerely,Joshu FisherProgram Manager, Summer Academic ProgramsJohns Hopkins Center for Talented YouthInstructor openings presently in Bristol, RI; Carlisle, PA; Lancaster, PA; Los Angeles, CA; and Santa Cruz, CA.TA openings presently in Bristol, RI; Carlisle, PA; Hong Kong, S.A.R.; Baltimore, MD; Lancaster, PA; Los Angeles, CA; Princeton, NJ; Berkeley, CA; Saratoga Springs, NY; and Santa Cruz, CA.Staff can work one or two 3-week sessions (late-June to mid-July and mid-July to early-August), depending upon their availability and our openings. Salary is provided in addition to room and board, so it can be a great opportunity to both educate the next generation of mathematicians, as well as make new friends and colleagues from all over. Interested folks should head to cty.jhu.edu/jobs/summer or email me for more information.Joshu Fisher jkfisher@jhu.edu
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- PS3 answer key // Posted on Jan. 31, 2020
- Answers to the problems posed in PS #3, except for group project prospectus. Thanks to Xingyu, Zhaowei and Jiaheng!
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- answers to ps3 // Posted on Jan. 31, 2020
- the rest of the file..
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- Leture Notes Ch4-5 // Posted on Jan. 30, 2020
- Notes for Barry’s lecture 1/30/20 and beyond
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- previous midterm exam // Posted on Jan. 30, 2020
- For practice (do not turn in), try to solve the problems from the 2017 midterm exam before answers are posted Feb 8.
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- PS#4 // Posted on Jan. 28, 2020
- Last problem set for a while. Due in class Tuesday Feb 4.
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- Answer Key PS 2 // Posted on Jan. 28, 2020
- Thanks to Zhaowei Zhu for providing this answer key!
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- no 1 of 5 files related to Barry’s 1/21 lecture1 // Posted on Jan. 27, 2020
- slides on estimating RPS from actual data..
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- no 2 of 5 files related to Barry’s 1/21 lecture1 // Posted on Jan. 27, 2020
- a dynamo simulation
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- no3 of 5 files related to Barry’s 1/21 lecture // Posted on Jan. 27, 2020
- another dynamo sim
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- no 4 of 5 files related to Barry’s 1/21 lecture1 // Posted on Jan. 27, 2020
- last dynamo sim
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- no 5 of 5 files related to Barry’s 1/21 lecture1 // Posted on Jan. 27, 2020
- a 2 pop replicator spreadsheet
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- Bomze83 // Posted on Jan. 21, 2020
- Due in class Jan 28. Note that this is mainly a group assignment. Apologies for the incorrect due date on the version posted.
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- Problem set 3 // Posted on Jan. 21, 2020
- Due in class Jan 28. Note that this is mainly a group assignment. Apologies for the incorrect due date on the version posted.
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- Slides 1/16/20 // Posted on Jan. 17, 2020
- Slides for Sinervo Lecture 1/16/20
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- Sinervo PNAS 2006 // Posted on Jan. 17, 2020
- Article relevant to Sinervo Lecture 1/16/20
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- Sinervo Am Nat 2007 // Posted on Jan. 17, 2020
- Another article relevant to Sinervo Lecture 1/16/20
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- Lizard RPS article // Posted on Jan. 17, 2020
- The original article on lizards playing RPS.
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- answer key for PS 1 // Posted on Jan. 15, 2020
- One set of possible answers to the questions in the first problem set. Note that Answer 4 was an extra credit item showing that interior steady state is possible with genetic diploid model, as elaborated in the Appendix to Ch01 of the text.spreadsheet for first problem is already posted..
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- Problem set 2 // Posted on Jan. 14, 2020
- Names the problems assigned (and extra credit) from chapter 2 of the text. Plus group project formation exercise.
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- Lecture 2 files // Posted on Jan. 9, 2020
- Barry will explain how to use this spreadsheet in class January 8.
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- R code for Chapters 1-2 examples // Posted on Jan. 9, 2020
- Barry will explain how to use this R code in class January 8.
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- Textbook Ch 01 // Posted on Jan. 8, 2020
- A draft version of Chapter 1 of the textbook, for students who have not yet been able to acquire access to the book.
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- Chapter 02 // Posted on Jan. 8, 2020
- A draft version of Chapter 2 of the textbook, for students who have not yet been able to acquire access to the book.
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- Term project ideas // Posted on Jan. 5, 2020
- Lists titles of previous term projects, known publications that resulted, and some new ideas.
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- Problem Set #1 // Posted on Jan. 2, 2020
- The first problem set, due Jan 14.
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- Term Project Guidelines // Posted on Dec. 24, 2019
- Sketches the due dates, formats, and expectations for term projects.
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