Course description
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Lecturer: Dr. Balázs KIRÁLY (email: kiraly.balazs@ek-cer.hu)
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Time and location of the lectures: Fridays 10:15-12:00, room KF85
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Form of assessment: some home assignments and an oral exam at the end of the term
Prerequisites
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Familiarity with the fundamentals of statistical physics.
Topics
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Brief history and perspectives of game theory
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Basic concepts of game theory
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Social dilemmas, Axelrod's tournaments
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Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma game with stochastic reactive strategies
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Population dynamics
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Potential games
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Decomposition of matrix games
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Thermodynamical behavior in games
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Spatial evolutionary games
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Coevolutionary games
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Cyclic dominance
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Strategy associations
Auxiliary material
Suggested reading and the slides for the lectures can be found here.