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IIT Bombay, Powai
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is organizing an Institute lecture on December 9, 2021. The details of the lecture are given below:
Title: 'A typology of players: between instinctive and contemplative'
Speaker: Dr. Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the New York University and the Tel Aviv University.
Abstract of the talk:
We are all decision-making agents. Strategic decisions are made for both leisure and non-leisure activities. Examples for the latter include decisions about monthly expenditure out of a given budget, and those for the former include (say) when to declare in a test match. All our decisions are either mostly instinctive or contemplative - depending on what is apt for any given situation. It is also true, however, that most of us lean on one of the two extremes more often than the other. In this talk we will learn where we ourselves fall in the decision-making spectrum between extremely contemplative and immediately instinctive.
The presenter requests you to do (preferably before December 8, 2021) some fun decision-making tasks at https://arielrubinstein.org/gt/student/poll.asp?group=41440. Our decisions in these tasks will be broadly discussed in the Institute lecture.
About the speaker:
Dr. Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the New York University and the Tel Aviv University. His main fields of research are economic theory, game theory, models of bounded rationality, and decision theory. His highly cited research has made influential contributions to all these fields, making him one of the top game theorists in the world. Dr. Ariel Rubinstein has also authored and edited many books. Some of his books include 'A Course in Game Theory' (co-authored with Martin Osborne, and taught in universities across the world), 'Modelling Bounded Rationality', and 'Economic Fables'. In addition to being on the editorial board of the top journals in the fields of economics and game theory, Dr. Rubinsteinhe is also a fellow of the prestigious Econometric society and other top academic organizations.