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Prof. Paul W. Goldberg
office phone: 0151-7954259
email: P.W.Goldberg “at” liverpool.ac.uk

COMP209: slides, lecture summaries, etc.
My office hours are Wednesday 11-12am and Friday 2-3pm.
News
I am giving an inaugural lecture on March 2nd (5:30pm in the Leggate Theatre). All are welcome to attend. This electronic invitation contains the abstract of the talk. One-day mini-workshop on topics in computational game theory to precede the inaugural lecture.
My EPSRC-funded research project began in October.
(Aug 09) We expect to have new permanent staff posts in the Economics and Computation Research Group (EcCo); contact me for further details
 
Research
General topics: Game theory: Nash equilibrium computation; congestion games, and rate of convergence to Nash equilibrium. Social choice theory. Auctions: truthful mechanisms
About my research: Overview of some topics — intended to be accessible to non-experts!
Introduction to PPAD: summary of a talk I gave at Dagstuhl seminar 07471 on 22.11.07.
 
Research activities
Call for Papers (now closed): Special Issue of Mathematical Logic Quarterly on Logic and Complexity within Computational Social Choice (I am co-editor)
Recently on PCs of WINE 2008, ACM-EC’08, COLT 2007, WINE 2007.
 
Teaching and Administration
I am coordinating the proposal for a new degree program in e-finance.
I am PhD admissions tutor for The Department of Computer Science. Here are some guidelines on applying for PhD study.
 
About me
I am a Professor (previously a Reader) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool, since August 2006. Prior to this I was at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, from 1997. I have also worked at Aston University and Sandia National Labs, USA.
 
Some links
Theory matters: theoretical computer science (TCS) advocacy wiki; Appendix A: TCS breakthroughs
Open Problem Garden: wiki for math open problems
 


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