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Dr. Bernhard von Stengel

I'm a former member of Emo Welzl's research group
Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms.

Recent publications - on my new homepage in London

Spieltheorie zum Mitmachen: Preisbildung im Duopol

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Research interests:

• Game Theory
  • Algorithms for finding Nash equilibria
  • Extensive games: finding Nash and correlated equilibria
  • Geometry of bimatrix games
  • Applications: inspection games, team games
• Pivoting Algorithms
  • Linear Programming
  • Linear Complementarity
• Functional decomposition
  • Multiple-valued switching functions
  • Utility functions, other applications in Operations Research
• Relations
  • Partial orders for construction and analysis of algorithms
  • Relational semantics

Teaching:

• Complexity Theory, Michaelmas Term 1998, at the LSE
  

• Informatik II, jointly with Prof. Dr. J. Nievergelt (ETH, Abt. IIIC Informatik), Summer semester 1998.
  Thursday and Friday 10-12 h, Room: HG F1
  

• Algorithmen in der Spieltheorie (ETH, Abt. IIIC Informatik), Winter semester 1997/98.
  Thursday 15-17 h, Exercises: Monday 12-13 h, Room: IFW C42.
  

• Logik (ETH, Abt. IIIC Informatik, 1. Semester), Winter semester 1996/97
  Textbook: Uwe Schöning, Logik für Informatiker, 4. Aufl., Spektrum, Heidelberg 1995.
  English edition: Uwe Schöning, Logic for computer scientists, Birkhäuser, Boston 1989.

Visiting scholar:

• Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, April 1996 - September 1998
• CentER for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Fall 1995
• International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, September 1994 - August 1995

Academic degrees:

• Dr. rer. nat. habil. (venia legendi in Informatik), Universität der Bundeswehr München, 1994
• Dr. rer. nat., Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Passau, 1990
• M. Sc. in Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, 1986
• Dipl. Math., RWTH Aachen, 1984