{"id":16773,"date":"2014-10-23T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2014-10-23T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:54:52","slug":"game-theory-illuminated-by-canadian-mathematician-in-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16773","title":{"rendered":"Game theory illuminated by Canadian mathematician"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16780\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Math-lecture.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16780\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Math-lecture-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Bell of the University of Waterloo presented Thursday at the Kraemer Family Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Bell of the University of Waterloo presented Thursday at the Kraemer Family Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Canadian professor with expertise\u00a0 in numerous mathematical disciplines, both pure and applied, presented the Department of Mathematics distinguished lecture Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Bell, professor, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, spoke about game theory, a discipline in mathematics that studies strategy and decision making in competitive situations at the Kraemer Family Library.<\/p>\n<p>Game theory is used by economists, political scientists, foreign policy experts, biologists and many other disciplines. Bell provided basic points of the theory, including what it means for a game to be solved. He also touched on topics such as Nash Equilibria and prisoner\u2019s dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>Nash Equilibria is an idea that won John Nash the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics. Prisoner\u2019s dilemma is a game theory where the prisoners can choose to either cooperate or defect. Computer experiments have shown that when facing numerous different strategies, it is generally the strategies that tend to cooperate that are more successful than the &#8220;greedy&#8221; strategies that try to take advantage of the niceness of other strategies, Bell said.<\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s lecture was attended by faculty and students and is an example of the department\u2019s efforts to bring leaders in their respective fields to campus and to connect math to other disciplines, according to Barbara Prinari, associate professor, Department of Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A Canadian professor with expertise\u00a0 in numerous mathematical disciplines, both pure and applied, presented the Department of Mathematics distinguished lecture Oct. 23. 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