The Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, that looks back on a history of six decades, is organized in every academic year. The conference provides a great opportunity for talented young students to introduce themselves and to present their research to a wide audience. Last Friday, several junior members of the research group gave talks at this…
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 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…
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…
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…