Thursday, February 17, 2022

[DMANET] Workshop on mechanism design and approximation algorithms, Feb 24-25, 2022

Apologies for the cross-postings,

We cordially invite you to (virtually) participate in the following
workshop:

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New Trends and Beyond Worst-case Analysis on Mechanism Design

and Approximation Algorithms

February 24-25, 2022

*About:* The workshop is jointly organized by project BALSAM
<https://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~fotakis/balsam.html> and project COMRADE
<http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/othersites/TheoryGroup/comrade/> funded by the HFRI
<https://www.elidek.gr/en/homepage/> (Hellenic Foundation for Research and
Innovation, Athens, Greece) under the "1st call for H.F.R.I. projects to
support faculty members and researchers". The purpose of the workshop is to
bring together leading experts and interested researchers in the fields of
mechanism design and approximation algorithms and discuss latest
developments on the interaction between these two fields. More information
about the schedule of talks will be available at the workshop website:

http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/othersites/TheoryGroup/comrade/workshop/

*Organizers: *

Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens

Evangelos Markakis, Athens University of Economics and Business

*Invited speakers:*

Georgios Amanatidis, University of Essex, UK

Ioannis Caragiannis, Aarhus University, Denmark

Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University, USA

Martin Hoefer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Aris Filos-Ratsikas, University of Liverpool, UK

Guido Schaefer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Christos Tzamos, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Carmine Ventre, King's College, London, UK

*Participation:* The workshop will take place virtually and participation
is free of charge. All the talks will be given via Webex, using the meeting
link below. We recommend that you download and install the webex
application (from webex.com), before opening the link.


*Meeting link:*
https://centralntua.webex.com/centralntua/j.php?MTID=mb8cf54c82fb85f14cc220610ef3b5182


We look forward to seeing you there! Please feel free to forward this
announcement to other relevant mailing lists and do not hesitate to contact
us if you have any questions.
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