DIMACS Workshop on the Interface between Biology and Game Theory

April 5, 2004
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Adam Arkin, Lawrence Berkeley Labs and UC Berkeley

Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech, vazirani@cc.gatech.edu

Denise Wolf, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, dmwolf@lbl.gov

Workshop Program:

 8:00 -  8:50  Registration -  First Floor Lobby of the CoRE Building
               Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 8:50 -  9:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director

 9:00 -  9:40  Rock-Paper-Scissors for the Adult Player
               Keynote Speaker: Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna

 9:45 - 10:25  Behavioral Game Theory, Evolutionary Game
               Theory, and the Explanation of Social Cooperation
               Herbert Gintis, Columbia University

10:25 - 10:40  Discussion

10:40 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30  A game theoretic analysis of random phase variation and other 
               microbial diversificaiton strategies
               Denise Wolf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

11:30 - 12:00  Cooperation in social dilemmas: Effects of population structures 
               Christoph Hauert, University of British Columbia

12:00 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:00  Clinical Trials and Game Theory
               Sorin Istrail, Applied Biosystems

 2:00 -  2:30  Sperm Competition Games: the "risk" model
               Mike Ball, University of Liverpool

 2:30 -  3:00  Entering Stationary Phase: Senescence, Death and Selfish Survivors  
               Marin Vulic, Getique Moleculaire Evolutive et Medicale

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:00  Evolutionary Game Dynamics in Finite Populations
               Christine Taylor, MIT

 4:00 -  4:30  Equilibrium selection in the evolution of mutualism: The Red King effect 
               Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington

 4:30 -  5:00  Evolutionary game dynamics and the evolution of trait variation: 
               will an ESS evolve?
               Steven Orzack, Fresh Pond Research Institute

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