Popular assignments at SODA

Tamás Király and his co-authors (Kavitha, Matuschke, Schlotter and Schmidt-Kraepelin) considered the popular assignment problem, a generalization of the well-studied popular matching problem. Their paper titled The popular assignment problem: when cardinality is more important than popularity has been accepted to SODA 2022. Congratulations!

We are expanding

We are happy to announce that Gergely Csáji, Máté Simon, and Sára Hanna Tóth are joining us until Aug 31, 2022. Gergely is working together with Tamás Király on generalizations of the stable assignment problem, while Máté and Sára are investigating various graph optimization problems under the supervision of Péter Madarasi, who is also joining…

Drafting workshop in discrete mathematics and probability

Several postdoc positions are available in Budapest in various research groups in discrete mathematics and probability theory. To make the application process more efficient and joyful, we are organizing a drafting workshop for young researchers interested in these positions, with the dates Jan 31 – Feb 3, 2022, at the Rényi Institute. The application due…

Game theory seminar

On Oct. 15, we will give a talk about dynamic pricing schemes at the Game Theory Seminar of the Corvinus University (Building C, Room 101, 2-3pm). Dynamic pricing was introduced as an alternative to posted-price mechanisms. In the dynamic setting, the prices can be updated between buyer-arrivals based on the remaining sets of items and…

Ready, set, start!

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences first announced its excellence program, Momentum for young researchers in 2009. The primary aim of the program is to strengthen the international competitiveness of the research network of the Academy. After last week’s award ceremony, the MTA-ELTE Momentum Matroid Optimization Research Group is now officially established!