2025 Archimedes Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory

2025 Archimedes Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory


Duration: 2 days - July 15-16, 2025

Place: Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Athens, Greece - https://tinyurl.com/5c7pdyzm

📌 Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tsMVhUrvHA-LQitlnz0i3EH7dU-p3o45HEkgBVPTpyY/edit

Day 1 (Tuesday, July 15):

9:00 – 9:20:

Welcome & Registration


9:20 – 9:30:

Opening Remarks

9.30 – 10.30:

Tutorial 1, part 1 - “Who Gets What? Fair Division of Indivisible Goods”

Kurt Mehlhorn, Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Germany, and Senior Professor of Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany


10.30 – 11.00:

Coffee Break


11.00 – 11.30:

Talk 1 - “Proportional Fairness in Non-Centroid Clustering”

Ioannis Caragiannis, Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Head of the Computational Complexity & Game Theory research group


11.30 – 12.00:

Talk 2 - “Utilitarian Distortion with Predictions”

Alexandros Voudouris, Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK


12.00 – 12.30:

Talk 3 - “Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values”

Rebecca Reiffenhäuser, Assistant Professor for Theoretical Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Member of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation


12.30 – 2.00:

Lunch (Catered)


2.00 – 3.00:

Tutorial 2, part 1 - “Total Search Problems in Algorithmic Game Theory”

Paul Goldberg, Professor of Computer Science, Oxford University (Brasenose College), UK


3.00 – 3.30:

Talk 4 - “Improved Last-Iterate Convergence Rates for Bilinear Zero-Sum Games”

Michail Fasoulakis, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Theoretical Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Affiliated/Corresponding Scientist of Abroad at ICS-FORTH, Greece


3.30 – 4.00:

Coffee Break


4.00 – 5.00:

Tutorial 3, part 1 - “Online Learning & Markets”

Stefano Leonardi, Professor at the Department of Computer, Control & Management Engineering, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy


5.00 – 5.10:

Short Break


5.10 – 5.40:

Talk 5 - “Airdrop Games“

Paolo Penna, Research Fellow at Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), (within) Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy


5.40 – 6.10:

Talk 6 - “Algorithmic Monetary Policies for Blockchain Participation Games”

Carmine Ventre, Professor of Computer Science, and Chair in Computational Finance, and Director of Informatics Finance Hub, and Interim Head of the Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK



Day 2 (Wednesday, July 16):

9.00 – 9.30:

Welcome


9.30 – 10.30:

Tutorial 1, part 2 - “Online Learning & Markets”

Federico Fusco, Assistant Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy


10.30 – 11.00:

Coffee Break


11.00 – 11.30:

Talk 7 - “Solving Neural Min-Max Games: The Role of Architecture, Initialization & Dynamics”

Manolis Vlatakis, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece


11.30 – 12.00:

Talk 8 - “Learning with Systematic Bias and Imperfect Data”

Alkis Kalavasis, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS), Yale University, USA


12.00 – 12.30:

Talk 9 - “Solving Hidden Monotone Variational Inequalities with Surrogate Losses”

Ioannis Mitliagkas, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO), Université de Montréal, Canada and Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind Montréal, Canada and Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece


12.30 – 2.00:

Lunch (Catered)


2.00 – 3.00:

Tutorial 2, part 2 - “Who Gets What? Fair Division of Indivisible Goods”

Kurt Mehlhorn, Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Germany and Senior Professor of Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany


3.00 – 3.30:

Talk 10 - “On Recent Advances in Computational Complexity of Team Games and Beyond”

Ioannis Panageas, Assistant Professor at the School of Information & Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA and Director of The Games, Optimization, Algorithms, and Learning Lab (GOALLab) and Lead Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece


3:30 – 4.00:
Coffee Break


4.00 – 5.00:

Tutorial 3, part 2 - “Total Search Problems in Algorithmic Game Theory”

Paul Goldberg, Professor of Computer Science, Oxford University (Brasenose College), UK


5.00 – 5.30:

Talk 11 - ”Algorithmic Foundations for Contrastive Embeddings”

Vaggos Chatziafratis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA and Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece





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