The winner of Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor of Hebrew University, Prof. Robert Aumann, attended in the Conference on Web and Internet Economics 2014 (WINE 2014) and gave a keynote speech under the topic “The Logic of Backward Induction”. Prof. Ye Yinyu from Stanford University hosted the speech. More than 300 scholars from all over the world attended the speech.
Prof. Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University and is one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.
Prof. Aumann received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
The Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE, formerly Workshop on Internet & Network Economics) is an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and results on incentives and computation arising from these various fields. Invited speakers of previous WINEs include not only many famous theorists from prestigious universities in the world, such as the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Kenneth J. Arrow, but also top researchers from many big business, such as Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, IBM Research, Google Inc., ebay Research Labs and so on. Participants of WINEs come from universities and industries as well.
WINE 2014 is organized jointly by Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS) within Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University (THU). AMSS is a national comprehensive academic research center of mathematics and systems science and THU is one of the most renowned universities in China.
