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Chris Potts Guest Lectures on Computation and Game Theory

Chris Potts will be guest lecturing in Barbara Partee's Mathematical Linguistics class on November 14, 16, and 21. All the meetings are 1:00-2:15 pm in Herter 640.

November 14: Computation for theoretical linguistics --- when and where is it useful to take an algorithmic perspective?

November 16: The basics of game theory: strategic games with pure and mixed strategies, the minimax algorithm, equilibria, and signaling games. Chris will review the requisite background notions from probability theory.

November 21: Linguistic applications of game theory, with attempts to apply the lessons