Interacting agents, P2P and markets: networks, algorithms, statistical mechanics

October 26th to October 30th at HUT (Hotel Meripuisto, Espoo)

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Introduction

 In collaboration, the Laboratories of Theoretical Computer Science (Pekka Orponen) and Physics (Mikko Alava), of Helsinki University of Technology, organize a four-day fall school, on this cross-disciplinary topic. The intended audience consists of students (and researchers) working on associated fields, and ranging from communication science to computer science to statistical physics. For these reasons, the school is supported by HUT and the National Graduate School for Materials Physics (Prof. Risto Nieminen) and the Helsinki Graduate School for Computer Science and Engineering (Hecse).

The school will take place from Thursday morning, Oct. 26th until Sunday, Oct. 30th. The program consists of lectures and groupwork sessions. The lecturers and their topics are Elias Koutsoupias (University of Athens): Algorithmic Mechanisms, Supriya Krishnamurthy (Swedish Institute for Computer Science): The Physics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Matteo Marsili (International Center for Theoretical Physics): Statistical physics approach to typical properties of systems of heterogeneous agents, Cristian Scheideler (Technische Universität München): Network Algorithms. The abstracts of the lectures are available already. The preliminary program is available also. The lectures of Matteo Marsili are now here as well: auctions, and general stuff, as well as Supriya Krishnamurthy's on P2P, Elias Koutsoupias' on Mechanism Design, and those of Christian Scheidler: part I, part II, and part III plus more in .ppt-format: part I, part II, and part III. Finally. we have now added some scanned lecture notes: first by Marsili, second by Marsili, those of Krishnamurthy, and the notes of Koutsoupias all scanned

The course (attending the lectures and the groupwork sessions with their assignments) will give 5 ECTS points. Students from Finland can seek funding (travel, accommodation) from the respective graduate schools. For non-Finnish Nordic students we are planning to apply jointly for Nordforsk funds. The foreign students interested in any means of support are kindly asked to contact Mikko Alava (mja at fyslab.hut.f) by September the 15th at the latest. For registration, the deadline is October the 10th. Due to the fact that the participation is supported by HUT and the respective graduate schools, registration is compulsory.
  

Venue

The school will be held at Hotelli Meripuisto in Espoo, 12 km from the HUT campus. This is easily accessible by local buses.The lectures, and the possible accommodation and the certain social program will take place there as well.