2007 NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference

"Diversity and Robustness"

Ann Arbor

Erlacher Room 411 West Hall

Friday, April 20: Diversity of Beliefs and Connections

10:30 - 11: 45 am Nabil Al-Najir "Decision Makers as Statisticians"

Lunch 12 - 1pm Box Lunches

1:00 - 2:15: Lu Hong and Scott Page "Interpreted and Generated Signals"

2:15 - 2:30: Break

2:30 - 3:45: Marcus Berliant and Masahisa Fujita "Knowledge Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert Cube"

3:45 - 5:00: Sergio Currarini, Matthew Jackson, and Paolo Pin "An Economic Model of Friendship: Diversity, Minorities, and Integration"

Dinner, April 20

7:00 pm - The Gandy Dancer

Saturday Morning, April 21: Complexity

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:15: Tim VanZandt "Communication Complexity and Mechanism Design"

10:15 - 10:45 Break

10: 45 - 12: 00 Joseph Abdou "From Nakamura Number to Stability Index"

Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 Dominick's

Saturday Afternoon: Robustness

1:30 - 2: 45 Zvika Neeman and Gregory Pavlov "Renegotiation-Proof Mechanism Design"

2:45 - 4: 00: Tom Weber "Screening With Externalities"

4:00 - 4: 15 Break

4:15 - 5:30 In-Koo Cho and Leonardo Rezende "Perishable Durable Goods"

6:30 Dinner at Metro Caf'e (Kerrytown)

Sunday Morning, April 22: Applied Mechanism Design

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:45: Shrutivandana Sharma and Demosthenis Teneketziz "An Externality Based Decentralized Optimal Power Allocation Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks"

9:45 - 10:00 Break

10: 00 - 11:15 Tudor Stoenescu and John Ledyard "A Pricing Mechanism which Implements a Network Rate Allocation Problem In Nash Equilibria"

11: 15 - 12: 30: Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Daniel Reeves, and Michael Wellman "Automated Mechanism Design in Infinite Games of Incomplete Information: Framework and Applications"

12:30 Box Lunches