Applications of Analysis:

Game Theory, Spectral Theory and Beyond

December 25-27, 2012

The Weizmann Institute of Science

Ziskind Building  Lecture Hall (Room 1)

 

Tuesday, December 25
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:45

Richard Beals, Yale University
PDE and Special Functions

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00

Uzy Smilansky, Weizmann Institute of Science
Regular Tournaments and their Spectra

12:00-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:30

Bezalel Peleg, Hebrew University
Representations of constitutions under incomplete information

14:45-15:30

Yehuda Pinchover, Technion
Optimal Hardy-type inequalities

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45

Alexei Penskoi, Moscow State University and Independent University of Moscow
Geometric optimization of eigenvalues of the Laplace operator

17:00-17:45

Martin Shubik, Yale
Mathematical institutional economics (recorded talk)

 

Wednesday, December 26
09:15-10:00

Michael Solomyak, Weizmann Institute of Science
Counting negative eigenvalues of the Schroedinger operator in the two-dimensional case: an overview

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:15

George Weiss, Tel Aviv University
The low frequency behaviour of the canonical switching cell

11:30-12:15

Victor Polterovich, CEMI, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Moscow School of Economics, Moscow State University
Reform Design: A Field for Mathematical Investigation?

12:15-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:30

Alexandre Girouard, Université de Savoie
Spectral geometry, isoperimetry and Euclidean embeddings

14:45-15:30

Matania Ben-Artzi, Hebrew University
Spectral density of first-order systems

16:00-17:00

Robert Yisrael Aumann, Hebrew University
(Venue: Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium)
Modern Economic Theory in the Talmud

17:00-18:00 Reception

 

Thursday, December 27
09:15-10:00

Werner Hildenbrand, University of Bonn
On Yakar Kannai's 'Neighboring Preferences' (Econometrica 1970)

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-11:15

Roberto Raimondo, University of Melbourne, University of Milan
Endogenously Dynamically Complete Equilibria for Financial Markets: The General Case (joint work with Yakar Kannai)

11:30-12:15

Cyril Tintarev, Uppsala University
Trudinger-Moser inequality and beyond

12:15-13:45

Lunch Break

13:45-14:30

Joachim Rosenmüller, University of Bielefeld
Von Neumann-Morgenstern-Solutions for Semi Orthogonal Games

14:45-15:30

Peter Greiner, University of Toronto
ð–Neumann and subellipticity

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:45

Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University and New Economic School
A Theory of Social Interactions and Formation of International Alliances

19:00-21:00 Conference banquet
 

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