When and Where: Every Thursday (unless otherwise indicated) from 3:30 to 5 p.m., Baker Hall, Room 116, 1st Floor.

Thursday, September 18: Simon Grant (Rice Univ)
"Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem"

Thursday, September 25: Anna Bogomolnaia (Rice Univ)
"Sharing the cost of a minimal spanning tree: beyond the Folk solution"

Thursday, October 2: Herve Moulin (Rice Univ)
"Pricing traffic in a congestion-free network"

Thursday, October 9: Fuhito Kojima (Harvard)
"Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms"

Friday, October 17: Vincent Conitzer (Duke)
"Mechanism Design in Highly Anonymous Environments"
Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Wednesday, October 22: Szilvia Papai (Univ of Concordia, Montreal)
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Room BB 102
"Mixed Priority Matching"

Thursday, October 30: Indrajit Ray (Univ of Birmingham)
"Coordination, Cheap Talk and Implementation"

Thursday, November 6: Christian Roessler (Univ of Queensland)
"Firm Creation and Design"

Wednesday, November 19: Ruben Juarez (Univ of Hawaii)
"Monotonic solutions to the judge aggregation problem"

Thursday, December 4: Yair Tauman (Tel Aviv & Stony Brook)
"A Strategic Analysis of the War Against Transnational Terrorism"

Thursday, December 11: Beth Allen (Univ of Minnesota)

Contact: Herve Moulin , (713) 348-3312, for additional information.