[Intelligence Seminar] Sept. 28, 2:00pm: CMACS Seminar, , Presentation by Thomas Forster

[Dana Houston]

====================================================
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR CMACS SEMINAR, WHICH MAY BE
OF INTEREST TO THE INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR AUDIENCE
====================================================

CMACS SEMINAR (http://cmacs.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/)
SEPTEMBER 28 AT 2:00PM, IN GHC 8102

SPEAKER: THOMAS FORSTER (http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~tf/ 
<http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/%7Etf/>)
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

For meetings, contact Charlotte Yano (yano at cs.cmu.edu 
<mailto:yano at cs.cmu.edu>)
Meetings are available from September 24 to October 4

REPRESENTING CONTINUOUS GAMES AS DISCRETE GAMES

Typical examples of continuous games are pursuer-evader games:
lion-antelope, homicidal chauffeur, etc. The players do not take turns
to make moves, and they can make their moves at any time. Discrete
(combinatorial) games are exemplified by chess, go, etc. These two
classes of games enjoy two completely disjoint mathematical
treatments. In this talk I illustrate how any pursuit-evader game can
be represented as a discrete game - albeit one of imperfect
information.

BIO

Thomas Forster did a first degree in Philosophy and Music but his
Ph.D. was in Mathematical Logic (Cambridge 1977), on Quine's Set
Theory NF. He has spent most of his working life in Cambridge, though
he was a Pittsburgh Centre Fellow in 2003. Now semiretired, he still
lectures Part III in Cambridge, and supervises undergraduates and
Ph.D. students, but travels more than hitherto.

-- 
Dana M. Houston
Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5405 Gates Hillman Complex
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

T:  (412)268-4717
F:  (412)268-6298

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/intelligence-seminar-announce/attachments/20120924/1a750935/attachment-0001.html