Mechanism design news

2017 

• August: The paper 'Popular edges and dominant matchings’ of Cseh and Kavitha was published in Mathematical Programming.
• June 22: Ágnes Cseh gave a presentation at the WG 2017 conference in Eindhoven with title "New and simple algorithms for stable flow problems"
• June 16: Ágnes Was awarded the János Bolyai Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
• June 16: Péter Biró gave a presentation in York at the Conference on Economic Design with title "Efficiency and fair access in kindergarten allocation policy design". At this conference it was also decided and announced that our research group will organise the next conference in Budapest in 2019.
• June 7: Péter Biró participated in a meeting of the kidney exchange COST Action in Leiden.
• May 22: Péter Biró gave a presentation at the 10th Japanese-Hungarian Symposium on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications in Budapest, with title "Stable project allocation under distributional constraints".
• May 12: The paper ‘Effciency and fair access in kindergarten allocation policy design’ of Veski, Biró, Lauri and Poder got accepted at the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design.
• May 3: Péter Biró gave a seminar talk with title ‘Computational aspects of matching problems under preferences’ at the University of Pécs
• April 27: Péter Biró gave an invited talk at the meeting of the Society for Modelling Economics
• April 20-21: Péter Biró and Ágnes Cseh were in the PC and gave talks at a MATCH-UP 2017 in Boston.
• April 6: Péter Biró gave a seminar talk with title ‘Stable project allocation under distributional constraints’ at the Paris School of Economics
• April and January: Péter Biró spent 2*2 weeks at Paris Dauphine due to the invitation of Jerome Lang
• April: The paper ‘New and simple algorithms for stable flow problems’ of Cseh and Matuschke was accepted to WG 2017 (43rd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science)
• March 27-28: Péter Biró participated the second workshop of the kidney exchange COST Action in Paris
• February 7: The paper ‘Stable fixtures problem with payments’ of Biró, Kern, Paulusma and Wojuteczky was accepted to Games and Economic Behavior, in the special issue on Shapley
• February: Péter Biró and Ágnes Cseh participated the research weekend of the EGRES research group
• January 12-13: Péter Biró participated the first meeting of the kidney exchange COST Action in Paris
• January 1: Erzsébet Romsics joined the group 

 

2016

• December 14-15: We organized the workshops 100 Years of Matching Theory in Hungary and The 12th Workshop on Matching in Practice
• December 14: Ágnes Cseh was awarded the Géza Grünwald Commemorative Prize for young researchers
• November 21-22: We organized the Workshop on Future Directions in Computational Social Choice
• Novermber 21: Péter Biró gave a talk at the Hungarian TV Channel, M5, at scientific show "Mindenki Akadémiája" with title Matching theory.
• November: Jannik Matuschke visited the group for a week
• November: The paper ‘Matchings with Lower Quotas: Algorithms and Complexity’ by Arulselvan, Cseh, Groß, Manlove and Matuschke was accepted in Algorithmica.
• November: Ágnes Cseh translated the groundbreaking 1916 paper of Dénes KÅ‘nig ‘On graphs and their application to determinant and set theory’ into English
• November 8: Ágnes Cseh gave a seminar talk at BUTE
• October 6: Ágnes Cseh was awarded the Klaus Tschira Award
• October: Ágnes Cseh visited the University of Bergen for a week due to the invitation of Saket Saurabh
• October 1: The paper Integer programming methods for special college admissions problems’ of Ágoston, Biró and McBride was accepted at the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
• September 29. Ágnes Cseh gave a seminar talk at the Corvinus University of Budapest
• September 19-21: Ágnes Cseh gave a talk at SAGT in Liverpoolban
• September 7: Péter Biró started his course on Market Design at the Corvinus University of Budapest
• September 2: the new COST Action on European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programmes was launched, with Péter Biró as one of the working group leaders
• September 1: Ágnes Cseh joined the group
• July 1: the group Mechanism Design was formed