Week of August 24, 2009
I have been awfully busy, participating in a week-long workshop at MSRI. I do not know if I told you already, but I am on sabbatical this year, and will be coming and going between SoCal and the Bay...
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More (but not much) on the paper “School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach” (SC) and beyond… Hey, at least the second author is Turkish…do you know him? HAHAHA! In SC they propose mechanism 1:...
View ArticleWeek of September 21, 2009
So I claimed in my message to the CCMS executive board (which I just forwarded to you) that we had a well developed research plan. I think that that was more or less correct, but it may be a good idea...
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Hello! After a long absence, I’m going to post a few things. First, I will post a link to the Wiki page about Mechanism Design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design). Second is a link to a...
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Week of October 5, 2009
I am thinking of creating a new post category called “academic discourse” so that we do not feel limited to “weekly ramblings” Anyways, my goal this week is somewhat modest. I will be making a list of...
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Week of October 19th
I know I should be filling in blanks on your very nice table, but instead I am rambling, as usual. I have now read both “An alternative mechanism desing approach to school choice in the United States...
View ArticleWeek of November 2, 2009
I have just heard from the REU directors; they do want me to run a project this summer under the Claremont REU program. This is good news because we will definitely have students to work with. But it...
View ArticleWeek of November 23, 2009
OK, I am back on the wagon. I need to come up with a title and a one-sentence description for the REU advertisement. They want these and a longer description by December 1. I will try to write it out...
View ArticleAdded descriptions to table
Hi, I added “brief” descriptions to the table of mechanisms for the two mechanisms I was “assigned” yesterday. I just took the descriptions from the School Choice paper in which they appear…plagiarism!...
View ArticleTrying to remember how this blog thing worked…
Here I am, after two months, trying to say something that is reasonable. In fact I got the urge to write because I came across some information about a special session that took place at the JMM 2009:...
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