[AI Seminar] ai-seminar-announce Digest, Vol 71, Issue 4

Adams Wei Yu weiyu at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Feb 20 12:29:10 EST 2017


This is a gentle reminder that the talk will be tomorrow (Tuesday) noon.

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>    1.  AI Lunch -- Dirk Bergemann (Yale) -- February 21 (Adams Wei Yu)
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> Subject: [AI Seminar] AI Lunch -- Dirk Bergemann (Yale) -- February 21
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> Dear faculty and students,
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> We look forward to seeing you Next Tuesday, February 21, at noon in NSH
> 3305 for AI lunch. To learn more about the seminar and lunch, please visit
> the AI Lunch webpage <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
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> On Tuesday, Professor Dirk Bergemann
> <https://campuspress.yale.edu/dirkbergemann/> from Yale will give a talk
> titled ?Information Design: A Unified Perspective?.
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> *Abstract:* Fixing a game with uncertain payoffs, information design
> identifies the information structure and equilibrium that maximizes the
> payoff of an information designer. We show how this perspective unifies
> existing work, including that on communication in games (Myerson (1991)),
> Bayesian persuasion (Kamenica and Genzkow (2011)) and some of our own
> recent work. Information design has a literal interpretation, under which
> there is a real information designer who can commit to the choice of the
> best information structure (from her perspective) for a set of participants
> in a game. We emphasize a metaphorical interpretation, under which the
> information design problem is used by the analyst to characterize play in
> the game under many different information structures.
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> *Bio:* Dirk Bergemann is Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of
> Economics at Yale University. He has secondary appointments as Professor of
> Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Professor of Finance at
> the School of Management. He received his Vordiplom in Economics at J.W.
> Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the
> University of Pennsylvania in 1994. Dirk Bergemann is the Chair of the
> Department of Economics since 2013. He joined Yale in 1995 as an assistant
> professor, having previously served as a faculty member at Princeton
> University. He has been affiliated with the Cowles Foundation for Research
> in Economics at Yale since 1996 and a fellow of the Econometric Society
> since 2007. His research is concerned with game theory, contract theory and
> mechanism design. His research has been supported by grants from the
> National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and
> the German National Science Foundation. Dirk Bergemann is currently a
> Co-Editor of Econometrica.
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