GReece Economic and Algorithmic Theory Week July 25-29, 2011, Santa Maria Beach, Paros, Greece.

The GReece Economic and Algorithmic Theory Week will bring together researchers from academia and industrial research working in the interface between economic theory and algorithms. Topics include mechanism design, market design, computational equilibria, price of anarchy, selfish routing, market equilibrium, and social networks and applications such as spectrum auctions, advertising auctions, and crowdsourcing. There will be a technical program of short talks given by invitees as well as ample time for informal discussion and collaboration.

The workshop is grateful for sponsorship from Microsoft Research, Google Research, and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens.

Confirmed participants: Itai Ashlagi (MIT), Moshe Babaioff (Microsoft Research), Liad Blumrosen (Hebrew U), Xi Chen (Columbia), Giorgos Christodoulou (Max Planck), Richard Cole (NYU), Costantinos Daskalakis (MIT), Nikhil Devanur (Microsoft Research), Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological U), Amos Fiat (Tel Aviv), Lisa Fleischer (Dartmouth), Gagan Goel (Google Research), Jason Hartline (Northwestern), Nicole Immorlica (Northwestern), Chinmay Karande (Google Research), Anna Karlin (U of Washington), Robert Kleinberg (Cornell U), Elias Koutsoupias (Athens U), Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC), Vangelis Markakis (Athens U. of Economics and Business), Aranyak Mehta (Google Research), Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research), Christos Papadimitriou (UC-Berkeley), Amin Saberi (Stanford), Michael Schapira (Hebrew U), Pavlos Spirakis (U of Patras), Bernhard von Stengel (London School of Economics), Eva Tardos (Cornell U), and Angelina Vidali (Max Planck).

Confirmed students: Umang Bhaskar (Dartmouth), Yang Cai (MIT), Ilias Diakonikolas (UC-Berkeley), Yiannis Giannakopoulos (U of Athens), Vasilis Gkatzelis (NYU), Tali Gutman (Hebrew U.), George Kouroupas (AUEB), David Malec (UW-Madison), Julian Merschen (London School of Economics), Katia Papakonstantinopoulou (U of Athens), Dimitris Paparas (Columbia) George Pierrakos (UC-Berkeley), Manolis Pountourakis (Northwestern), Balu Sivan (UW-Madison), and Christos Tzamos (MIT).

The workshop will take place at the Santa Maria Beach on the Greek island of Paros. Paros is easy to reach by ferry from Athens. There is a bus service provided by the Santa Maria Surfing Beach Village to reach the workshop location. Accommodation will be in bungalows on the beach front.

We suggest arrivals be on Sunday, July 24 and departures on Saturday, July 30. We suggest flying to Athens and taking a ferry or plane from there. Options include:

• Olympic Air has flights at 6am, 10:30am, and 1:30pm.
• Hellenic Seaways from Piraeus Port (map); departures: 7:15am and 4:55pm.
• Seajets from Rafina Port (map); Departure 7:30am.