2017
- 16-24.12.2017 Ágnes Cseh visited Ahmet Alkan and his research group at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. She gave a mini-course for MSc and PhD students.
- 06-08.12.2017 David Manlove (University of Glasgow) and Katarína Cechlárová (Safarik University, Kosice) visited our group, David Manlove gave an invited talk at the International Seminar of the Institute of Economics.
- 14-16.11.2017 Invited presentations at the EAADS Workshop, Kosice, Slovakia. Péter Biró: “Stable matchings with uncertain preferences.” Tamás Fleiner: “List colorings with restricted lists.” Zsuzsanna Jankó: “Trading networks with bilateral contracts.”
- 10.2018 The “Handbook on Trends in Computational Social Choice” has been published (freely accessible at http://tinyurl.com/TrendsCOMSOC) with three chapters authored by our researchers. Chapter 6: “Popular Matchings” by Ágnes Cseh. Chapter 16: “US vs. European Apportionment Practices: The Conflict between Monotonicity and Proportionality” by Péter Biró, László Á Kóczy and Balázs Sziklai. Chapter 18: “Applications of Matching Models under Preferences” by Péter Biró.
- 10.2017 Ata Atay joined our research group as a research fellow, hired under a 2-years contract by the Institute of Economics.
- 09.2017 Zsuzsanna Jankó has started to work in our research group as a research fellow, supported from a 2+2 years postdoctoral grant by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- 08.2017 The paper of Ágnes Cseh, David Malnove, and Robert Irwing on “The Stable Roommates problem with short lists” has been accepted for publication at Theory of Computing Systems.
- 08.2017 The paper of Ágnes Cseh, Chien-Chung Huang and Telikepalli Kavitha on “Popular matchings with two-sided preferences and one-sided ties” has been accepted for publication at SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics.
- 08.2017 The paper of Ágnes Cseh and Telikepalli Kavitha on “Popular edges and dominant matchings” has been accepted for publication at Mathematical Programming.
- June 22: Ágnes Cseh gave a presentation at the WG 2017 conference in Eindhoven with title “New and simple algorithms for stable flow problems”
- June 16: Ágnes Was awarded the János Bolyai Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
- June 16: Péter Biró gave a presentation in York at the Conference on Economic Design with title “Efficiency and fair access in kindergarten allocation policy design”. At this conference it was also decided and announced that our research group will organise the next conference in Budapest in 2019.
- June 7: Péter Biró participated in a meeting of the kidney exchange COST Action in Leiden.
- May 22: Péter Biró gave a presentation at the 10th Japanese-Hungarian Symposium on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications in Budapest, with title “Stable project allocation under distributional constraints”.
- May 12: The paper ‘Effciency and fair access in kindergarten allocation policy design’ of Veski, Biró, Lauri and Poder got accepted at the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design.
- May 3: Péter Biró gave a seminar talk with title ‘Computational aspects of matching problems under preferences’ at the University of Pécs
- April 27: Péter Biró gave an invited talk at the meeting of the Society for Modelling Economics
- April 20-21: Péter Biró and Ágnes Cseh were in the PC and gave talks at a MATCH-UP 2017 in Boston.
- April 6: Péter Biró gave a seminar talk with title ‘Stable project allocation under distributional constraints’ at the Paris School of Economics
- April and January: Péter Biró spent 2*2 weeks at Paris Dauphine due to the invitation of Jerome Lang
- April: The paper ‘New and simple algorithms for stable flow problems’ of Cseh and Matuschke was accepted to WG 2017 (43rd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science)
- March 27-28: Péter Biró participated the second workshop of the kidney exchange COST Action in Paris
- February 7: The paper ‘Stable fixtures problem with payments’ of Biró, Kern, Paulusma and Wojuteczky was accepted to Games and Economic Behavior, in the special issue on Shapley
- February: Péter Biró and Ágnes Cseh participated the research weekend of the EGRES research group
- January 12-13: Péter Biró participated the first meeting of the kidney exchange COST Action in Paris
- January 1: Erzsébet Romsics joined the group