Attendance will be paired with an informal final test for all attendees. The test is a compulsory assessment of attendance just in case of attendance through videos.
Except for peculiar situations, the seminars will be scheduled in-presence with streaming (@google meet) for the audience while the interviews will take place in-presence only.
Interviews and seminars can be booked/requested at any moment, but the interview or the choice of the topic are guaranteed only after the first deadline following the request. Interviews will take place in a unique date that will be agreed with all the candidates.
Interview
The interview is about the topics of the lectures and it is made of a sequence of wide-spectrum questions that aim at checking their comprehension. Expected duration: 45 minutes.
An interview can be booked directly on esami.unipi.it. In case some of the deadlines below are not included in the system, please contact the instructor to book the interview.
Seminar
The seminar (30-45 minutes) and the report are about a specific topic that deepens and/or broadens the contents of the lectures or deals with a side theme. The topic is chosen upon common agreement with the instructor from those in the list below or upon a specific proposal by the student. It may involve some coding and numerical tests. Once the topic is agreed the report has to be handed within 2 months.
Please contact the instructor by email to choose the topic of the seminar.
rules for students' independent proposals: at least 2 articles (or 1 book chapter) about a unique topic within the boundaries of the course plus [at least] a handwritten half page that illustrates the proposal
The following series of conferences are sources of valuable (advanced) material:
International symposium on algorithmic game theory
ACM conference on economics and computation
Conferences at the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory
International workshop on computational social choice