Saddle points and Nash equilibria in pure and mixed strategies

2018-05-25

15:00-18:00

FAMNIT-Muzejski3

Vladimir Gurvich (Rutgers University, NJ, USA and National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

The lectures will be on

– Friday, May 25, 2018, 15:00 – 18:00 (FAMNIT-Muzejski3)

– Friday, June 1, 2018, 15:00 – 18:00 (FAMNIT-Muzejski3)

The mini-course will be organized as a part of the undergraduate course “Mathematical Topics in English”, but the course will be self-contained and can be attended by interested students at any level of studies.

Topics:

1. Matrix, bimatrix, and n-person games in normal form; solving in pure and mixed strategies.

2. Nash equilibrium (NE) in pure strategies for n-person games in normal and positional form.

3. Nash-solvable and tight game forms.

4. Solving 2-person zero-sum matrix games in mixed strategies is a linear programming problem.