Teoria dei giochi - Game theory

Exam rules

The students who regularly attended the lectures in class during the academic year 2024/25 can choose to take the exam in one of the following ways::

  1. oral interview

  2. seminar plus written report

while all the others must necessarily take the interview. Bachelor students are adviced to choose the interview in any case.

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. The seminar (approximately 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 topic. The topic is chosen upon a common agreement with the instructor from those in the list below or upon a specific proposal by the student. Once it is agreed the report has to be handed within 2 months.
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.

In order to take the exam please sign on esami.unipi.it (the date on the site is the day after the deadline). Notice that the instructor has to be contacted by email to agree the topic of the seminar afterwards. If a deadline has no corresponding date on the site, please contact the instructor also to book the interview.
Oral exams and seminars can be 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 agreed with all the candidates.

Deadlines 2025

3 June
15 June
5 July
30 July (for seminars only)
31 August
18 September
15 October
31 October
30 November
31 December
31 January 2026

Next date for oral exams: 13 and 18 June
(possibile dates for July to be announced)

Next date for seminars: to be announced

List of previous seminars (mainly in Italian)

Proposals of seminars
(list to be completed)

  1. Strong equilibria in routing and congestion games
  2. Coalition formation and Pareto optimality
  3. Cooperative games with overlapping coalitions
  4. Free riders over networks
  5. Convergence and approximation of Nash equilibria
  6. Multiagent cooperation in multiperiod portfolio selection
  7. Lipschitz games and approximate equilibria
  8. No regret techniques in finite games and correlated equilibria
  9. One-sided matchings for indivisible goods
  10. Competition in congested networks and markets
rules for students' independent proposals: at least 2 articles about a unique topic within the boundaries of the course plus [at least] a handwritten half page that illustrates the proposal