SAGT 09 - Paphos -Cyprus - Invited Speakers

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Paphos - Cyprus

October 18 - 20, 2009

Supported by:

University of Cyprus

Integrated Project

IST-015964

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science

Limassol Co-operative Savings Bank Ltd

IBM Cyprus

Invited Speakers

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Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece. Talk title: Approximate Price of Anarchy and Stability

Elias Koutsoupias is a Professor of Computer Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 1994. He has previously taught at the University of California at Los Angeles (1994-2001). His research interests are in Theoretical Computer Science, with focus on Game Theory, its Applications to the Internet and the Web, Online Algorithms, and more generally Computing under Uncertainty.

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Noam Nisan, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. Talk title: Google's Auction for TV ads

Noam Nisan got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1988. During the last 10 years his research has been on the border of Computer Science, Game Theory, and Economic Theory, and, in particular on a sub-field that he has initiated, "Algorithmic Mechanism Design". Noam is a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Rationality Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the last two years has been a research scientist in Google, Tel-Aviv.

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Mihalis Yannakakis,Columbia University, USA. Talk title: Computational Aspects of Equilibria

Mihalis Yannakakis is the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He has received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1975, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1979. He has previously worked at Bell Labs Research (1978-2001) and at Avaya Labs (2001-2002), and he has been a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (2002-2003). His research interests include Algorithms and Complexity, Combinatorial Optimization, Databases, and Verification and Testing. He has received the Knuth Prize in 2005 for his numerous ground-breaking contributions to Theoretical Computer Science.

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