The workshop will be broadly devoted to Multi-Agent Systems
including topics such as social choice, fair algorithms, algorithmic
game theory, mechanism design, and network economics, with
applications to voting, matching, auctions, kidney exchanges, etc.
Objective: The focus of the workshop is promoting discussions that induce
collaborative work.
Dates: Arrival day is Saturday, March 25th (but attendees are welcome to arrive on
Friday 24th) with a full program scheduled for Sunday to Thursday. Departure day is
Friday, March 31st.
The workshop takes place at the Bellairs
Research Institute in Barbados. The institute, owned by McGill University, is only metres from
the beautiful west coast beaches of
the island.
Travel: Barbados is a safe place to travel. Bellairs is a 30 minute taxi drive from
Grantley Adams International Airport on the south-east of the
island.
Visas: Visitors from North America and most of Europe do not require a visa to visit Barbados.
Nationals of some countries, e.g. Iran, do require a visa.
Visas can take a couple of months to be issued so please apply early.
Ilan Adler (Berkeley), Mete Ahunbay (TU Munich), Hannaneh Akrami (MPI), Ioannis Caragiannis (Aarhus), Rachel Cummings (Columbia), Costis Daskalakis (MIT), Edith Elkind (Oxford), Martin Gairing (Liverpool), Jugal Garg (UIUC), Kira Goldner (Boston), Daniel Halpern (Harvard), Tobias Harkes (Passau), Jason Hartline (Northwestern), Alexandros Hollender (EPFL), Sean Horan (Montreal), Max Klimm (TU Berlin), Alexandra Lassota (EPFL), Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC), Irene Lo (Stanford), Talyor Lundy (UBC), Evi Micha (Toronto), Herve Moulin (Glasgow), Vishnu Narayan (Tel-Aviv), April Niu (McGill), Katerina Papadaki (LSE), Dana Pizarro (O'Higgins), Narun Raman (UBC), Sanjukta Roy (Penn State), Rahul Savani (Liverpool), Daniel Schoepflin (Drexel), Bernhard von Stengel (LSE), Clayton Thomas (Princeton), Agnes Totschnig (McGill), Adrian Vetta (McGill).
The basic format is short talks in the morning, research discussions in the afternoon, and a plenary talk
after dinner. The workshop schedule.
BernieFest: One day of the workshop will be dedicated to talks celebrating the career
and sixtieth birthday of Bernhard von Stengel.
Accommodation: Lodging at Bellairs is spartan, usually two to a room, at a very modest
daily rate of $60 to $80 US per person. Rooms are of the level of student
dormitories. Do not expect the luxury of the incredibly expensive hotels on either side of
the institute.
Food: Breakfast and dinner is provided for the entire group at an additional cost. We
tend to buy lunch from local vendors.
Currency: US currency is freely accepted on the island at a fixed rate of 2 Barbadian dollars per US dollar
Family Policy: To avoid distractions during the workshop, we request that family members join
you either only the week before or only the week after the workshop, but not during the workshop.
2019: Discrete Optimization
2018: Algorithmic Game Theory
2017: Data, Learning and Optimization
2016: Algorithmic Game Theory
2015: Combinatorial Optimization
2014: Algorithmic Game Theory
2013: Combinatorial Optimization
2012: Algorithmic Game Theory
2011: Approximation Algorithms
2010: Approximation Algorithms
2009: Algorithmic Game Theory
2008: Integer Programming
2007: Combinatorial Optimization