In-person and online public event (Auditorium, Centre Building)
Monday 15 Apr 2024 6.30pm - 8pm
The internet has become a huge computational platform for many heterogeneous, complex markets. These complex markets require the design of fast algorithms that take into account the economic, game theoretic, and computational considerations in a unified way.
In this talk, Michal Feldman will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that arise in this domain, through the lens of approximation.
Meet our speaker and chair
Michal Feldman (@MichalFeldman9) is the Computation and Economics Professor of Computer Science in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.
Bernhard von Stengel is Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at LSE and the Head of the Department.
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