Dr. Jim Haglund, jhaglund@math.upenn.edu
Course webpage: http://www.math.upenn.edu/~jhaglund/432/

Office hours : Monday, Wednesday 10am-11am and Friday 2-3pm in DRL 4E2B.
Office Phone: 215-573-9093

Lecture: MWF 11-12pm in DRL 3C2

Course: Game Theory. Game Theory is a relatively new and exciting mathematical discipline which has many applications to economics and other areas. This course covers standard topics in game theory such as combinatorial games, two person (zero-sum and general-sum) games, noncooperative games, and Nash's equilibrium theorem.

Text:The text for this course is " Game Theory" by Thomas S. Ferguson, available free online at UCLA Some auxillary sources which may be helpful to consult, on reserve in the Math/Physics Library in DRL 3N1, are "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays" by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy, and "A Course in Game Theory" by M. J. Osborne and A. Rubenstein.

Exams and Grades: There will be two hour exams and a final exam. Each hour exam counts 25% of your grade, and the final exam counts 40%. HW counts 10%. Hour exam 1 will be on Wednesday, Oct. 8 from 11-11:50am in 3C2, and Hour exam 2 will be on Wednesday, Nov. 12, from 11:00-11:50am in 3C2. The final exam is on Friday, Dec. 12 from 12-2pm in ??. You have the option of doing a special report, roughly four pages in length, on the mathematics behind any topic in game theory. If you turn in a special report, I will take the maximum of your grade on the report and on the last section of the final exam (which is based on the last part of the book, and accounts for 15% of your class grade).

Important Dates:
Hour Exam 1: Oct. 8, 11-11:50am in DRL 3C2
Last Day to Drop a Course: Friday, Oct. 10
Fall Break: Oct. 11-14
Hour Exam 2: Nov. 12, 11-11:50am in DRL 3C2
Thanksgiving Break : Thursday, Nov. 27-Sun. Nov. 30
Last Day of Class: Friday, Dec. 5
Final Exam: Friday, Dec. 12 from 12-2pm in ??

Homework Assignments:
HW1 due Monday 9/15: 1.5#1, 1.5#4, 2.6#2, 2.6#3, 2.6#7