Course description

• Lecturer: Dr. Balázs KIRÁLY (email: kiraly.balazs@ek.hun-ren.hu)
• Time and location of the lectures: Fridays 10:15-12:00
• Form of assessment: some home assignments and an oral exam at the end of the term

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with the fundamentals of statistical physics.

Topics

• Brief history and perspectives of game theory
• Basic concepts of game theory
• Social dilemmas, Axelrod's tournaments
• Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma game with stochastic reactive strategies
• Population dynamics
• Potential games
• Decomposition of matrix games
• Thermodynamical behavior in games
• Spatial evolutionary games
• Coevolutionary games
• Cyclic dominance
• Strategy associations

Auxiliary material

Suggested reading and the slides for the lectures can be found here.