For potential Graduate
Students:
This
document may help you if you are considering doing research in game theory in Economics
or Operations Research.
I
tend to supervise students who wish to pursue an academic career. Academic life are very
competitive, and salaries (unlike satisfaction) in Israeli academic institutes
are not that high. You may therefore wish to consider another way of life...
In
order to understand what game theory is, you should take some courses (the movie
“Beautiful Mind” is not sufficient). There are two main streams in this field,
cooperative game theory and non-cooperative game theory. Personally, I like
them both, but the current research (in Economics, Operations Research, and
Computer Science) focuses on non-cooperative game theory. It is recommended
that prior to doing research in game theory you take introductory courses in Non-cooperative
Game Theory and Cooperative Game Theory, and an advanced course in Game Theory.
There
is a group of excellent researchers in Game Theory in the Technion:
Yakov Ben-Haim (Mechanical Engineering)
Ido Erev ( Psychology)
Ron Holzman
( Mathematics)
Ron Lavi ( Economics and
Computer Sciences)
Shie Mannor
(electrical Engineering)
Dov Monderer (Economics and Operations Research)
Yoram Moses
( Electrical Engineering)
Ariel Orda ( Electrical Engineering)
Uri Rothblum
( Operations Research)
Nahum Shimkin
( Electrical Engineering)
Adam Shwartz
( Electrical Engineering)
Rann Smorodinsky ( Economics)
Moshe Tennenholtz
( Information Systems)