The Computer
Science Colloquium
Thursday, May 17
SOCIAL SOFTWARE: Formal Methods in the Social and Political Sciences
A Two-Day Conference at CUNY
Thursday, May 17 @ Brooklyn College, CUNY
| 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM |
Breakfast - Georgian Room (Boylan Hall) |
| 9:45 AM -10 AM |
Welcome by Provost Matthews - Tanger Auditorium |
| 10 AM—11 AM |
Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam) - Tanger Auditorium
Collective Rational Action: Is It Possible? |
| 11 AM - noon |
Marc Pauly (Stanford) - Tanger Auditorium
On the Role of Language in Social Choice Theory |
| 12 PM - 12:10 PM |
Break |
| 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM |
Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn) - Tanger Auditorium
Do the Right Thing: but only if Others do so |
| 1:10 PM - 3:30 PM |
Lunch break |
| 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
Alan Taylor (Union College) - TBA
Mathematics and Honesty |
| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Donald Saari (UC Irvine) - TBA
Why are there so many Problems with Voting Rules? |
| Special event: Philip Pettit (Princeton) will give
the Annual Sprague-Taylor Lecture at 2 PM in the Tanger Auditorium.
His title: Made with Words: Hobbes on the Human Mind. |
Friday, May 18 @ CUNY Graduate Center
Room 4102, Science Center
| 9:30 AM - 10 AM |
Refreshments |
| 10 AM—11 AM |
Eric Pacuit (Amsterdam)
Logics for Social, Interactive Situations |
| 11 AM - noon |
Jan van Eijck (CWI, Amsterdam)
Game Strategies, Promises, and Rational Choice |
| 12 - 12:15 |
Break |
| 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM |
Steven Brams (NYU)
Voting Systems That Combine Approval and Preference (with Remzi Sanver) |
| Lunch break |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM |
Marc Pauly (Stanford)
Decision Framing in Judgment Aggregation |
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM |
Donald Saari (UC Irvine)
A qualitative approach toward evolutionary game theory |
| 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
Wine and Cheese |
Marquis de Condorcet
John von Neumann
Alan Turing
Kenneth Arrow |
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