ISDG Meetings

ISDG organizes a Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications every two years, and smaller workshops in between. Also, some meetings are possible held by local chapters of ISDG.

Coming Meetings

14th ISDG Workshop, Qingdao, China, June 11-13, 2025

Past Events

Symposia

Workshops

  • 13th ISDG Workshop, Naples, Italy, June 7-9, 2023
  • 12th ISDG Workshop, St.-Petersburg, Russia, July 3-5, 2019. The Workshop was held together with the 13th International Conference “Game Theory and Management” GTM’2019 
  • 11th ISDG Workshop, Warsaw, Poland, July 13-15, 2017 
  • 10th ISDG Workshop, Glasgow, Great Britain, July 16-17, 2015 
  • 9th ISDG Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, July 5-6, 2013 
  • 8th ISDG Workshop, Padova, Italy, July 21-22, 2011 
  • 7th ISDG Workshop, Djerba, Tunisia, July 1-3, 2009 
  • 6th ISDG Workshop, Rabat, Moroco, September 5-8, 2007 
  • 5th ISDG Workshop, Segovia, Spain, September 21-24, 2005 
  • 4th ISDG Workshop, Goslar, Germany, May 19-21, 2003 
  • 3rd ISDG Workshop, Cargese, Corsica, July 16-21, 2001 
  • 2nd ISDG Workshop, Ischia, Italy, July 18-21, 1999 
  • 1st ISDG Workshop, Sils-Maria, Switzerland, August 20-22, 1997

Other ISDG Conferences

Eight International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications

The eigth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications was held at chateau Vaalsbroek, Vaals-Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 5-8, 1998. The chairpersons of the international organizing committee were Eitan Altman and Odile Pourtallier, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France.

  • ORGANIZER: 
    Maastricht University
  • SPONSORS:
    • IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, inc.
    • IEEE Control Systems Society
    • IFAC, International Federation of Automatic Control
    • INRIA, The French National Institute for Research in Computer science and Control
    • Maastricht University
  • TUTORIAL SESSIONS: 
    A preconference day of tutorials on the subject ‘Learning in Games’ was given by professor E. Lehrer, Tel-Aviv University, Israel and professor R. Vohra, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
  • PLENARY LECTURERS:
    • Professor R. Aumann, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    • Professor P. Hansen, GERAD, Montreal, Canada
    • Professor A. Lazar, Columbia University, U.S.A.
    • Professor M. Maschler, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
    • Tamer Basar (United States)
    • Pierre Bernhard (France)
    • Michele Breton (Canada)
    • Andre De Palma (France)
    • Maurizio Falcone (Italy)
    • Jerzy Filar (Australia)
    • Shmuel Gal (Israel)
    • Raimo Hamalainen (Finland)
    • Alain Haurie (Switzerland)
    • Aurel Lazar (United States)
    • Arik Melikyan (Russia)
    • Koichi Mizukami (Japan)
    • Marilu’ Petit (Italy)
    • Leon Petrossian (Russia)
    • David Schmeidler (Israel)
    • Josef Shinar (Israel)
  • LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
    • Koos Vrieze (Chairman)
    • Frank Thuijsman
    • Marijke Verheij
  • CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
    The review for the Annals will commence soon

Seventh International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications

The seventh International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications was held at Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan, December 16-18, 1996. The symposium chairman was professor Jerzy A. Filar, University of South Australia.

  • ORGANIZER: 
    ISDG
  • SPONSOR: 
    The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
  • CO-SPONSORS:
    • Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of South Australia
    • IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS)
    • IFAC Mathematics of Control Committee (MOCC)
    • The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (iSCLe)
    • National Defense Academy (NDA)
  • TUTORIAL SESSIONS: 
    A preconference day of tutorials on the subject ‘Pursuit-evasion problems in Air’ was organized by professor Kimio Kanai, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka on December 15, 1996. The speakers were
    • Dr. Sachio Uehara, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.Japan:
      ‘A Trend of Air Combat Maneuvers: Maneuverability plus Agility’
    • Dr. Michael Breitner, TU-Clausthal, Germany: 
      ‘Robust Optimal Control: Differential Game Approach and Numerical Calculation of Minimax strategies’
    • Professor Josef Shinar, Technion, Israel:
      ‘Application of Air Pursuit-Evasion Theory to Guidance Law for Interceptor Missiles’
  • PLENARY LECTURES:
    • ◦ Prof. A. Haurie:
      ‘Duopoly and Differential Games’
    • Prof. K. Vrieze: 
      ‘Equilibria in Stochastic and Recursive Games’
    • Prof. A. de Palma:
      ‘Dynamic Network Models’
    • Prof. T. Parthasarathy:
      ‘Linear Complementarity Problem in Static and Dynamic Games’
  • INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
    • J. A. Filar (Chairman, Australia)
    • E. Altman (France)
    • T. Basar (USA)
    • M. Breton (Canada)
    • V. Gaitsgory (Australia)
    • R. P. Hämäläinen (Finland)
    • A. Haurie (Switzerland)
    • V. Kaitala (Finland)
    • H. Kimura (Japan)
    • J. B. Krawczyk (New Zealand)
    • A. A. Melikyan (Russia)
    • G. Leitmann (USA)
    • G. J. Olsder (The Netherlands)
    • T. J. Raghavan (USA)
    • J. Shinar (Israel)
    • K. Uchida (Japan)
    • S. Uehara (Japan)
    • T. L. Vincent (USA)
    • G. Zaccour (Canada)
  • LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
    • K. Mizukami (Chairman)
    • F. Imado (Secretary)
    • K. Furuta, N. Goto, A. Ichigawa, M. Ikeda, M. Ishigawa, K. Kanai, J. G. Lee (Korea), M. Murata, Y. Murata, K. Shimizu, K. Shimomura, T. Shinkai, T. Sugie, T. Tanino
  • CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
    The review of Annals is in progress
  • FOR THE CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY OF THE CONFERENCE, SEE Newsletter No.25

Sixth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications

The sixth International Symposiums on Dynamic Games and Applications was held at St-Jovite, Quebec, Canada, july 13-15, 1994. The symposium chairman was G. J. Olsder.

  • ORGANIZER: 
    GERAD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes
  • SPONSOR: 
    The International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG)
  • TUTORIAL SESSIONS: 
    A preconference day of tutorials on the subject of viscosity solutions was organized by Prof. M. Bardi (University degli studi di Pavoda, Italy); Prof W. Fleming (Brown University, U.S.A.) was the second speaker. It was held on July 11, at Ecole des HEC, Montreal.
  • PLENARY LECTURES:
    • Prof. S. Jørgensen (Odense University, Denmark), on “Management Science Applications of Dynamic Game Theory”
    • Prof. P. Bernhard (INRIA, France), on the current status of the Isaacs-Breakwell approach
    • Prof. E. Maskin (Harvard University, U.S.A.), on interface in dynamic games and economy
  • PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
    • G. J. Olsder (Chairman)
    • M. Bardi
    • T. Basar
    • R. P. Hämäläinen
    • A. Haurie
    • A. A. Melikyan
    • T. E. S. Raghavan
    • J. Shinar
    • T. L. Vincent
    • A. J. de Zeeuw
  • SYMPOSIUM COORDINATOR:
    • Michele Breton
    • Georges Zaccour
  • CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: 
    G. J. Disher (Ed.), New Trends in Dynamic Games and Applications, Annals of the ISDG, Vol. 3, Birkhauser, 1995.

Fifth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications

The Fifth International Symposiums on Differential Games and Applications was held at Conches, Switzerland, July 13 and at Griments, July 15-17, 1992. The symposium chairman was Alain Haurie.

  • ORGANIZER: 
    Universite de Geneve
  • TUTORIAL SESSIONS: 
    H-infinity optimal Control via Differential Game Theory, Conches-Geneva, Switzerland.
  • PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
    • P. Allan
    • T. Basar
    • M. Breton
    • P. Bernhard
    • H. Ehtamo
    • J. Filar
    • G. Gambarelli
    • R. P. Hämäläinen
    • R. Kaitala
    • G. Leitmann
    • R. Loulou
    • A. Melikyan
    • G. J. Olsder
    • A. de Palma
    • G. Papavassilopoulos
    • M. L. Petit
    • L. Petrosian
    • T. E. S. Raghavan
    • G. Ricci
    • J. Rotmans
    • P. Tani
    • S. H. Tijs
    • B. Tolwinski
    • J. P. Vial
    • O. J. Vrieze
    • G. Zaccour
  • SYMPOSIUM COORDINATOR:
    • Alain Haurie (Chairman)
    • P. Allan
    • O. Bahn
    • A. Din
    • E. Fragniere
    • J. Mocellin
    • A. de Palma
    • M. Roche
    • J. P. Vial
    • Ch. van Delft
  • CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: 
    T. Basar and A. Haurie (Eds.), Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications, Annals of the ISDG, Vol. 1, Birkhauser, 1994.

Fourth International Symposium on Differential Games and Applications

The fourth International Symposiums on Differential Games and Applications was held at Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, August 9 and 10, 1990. The symposium chairman was Raimo P. Hämäläinen (HUT).

  • ORGANIZER: 
    Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
  • WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF:
    • IFAC Mathematics of Control Committee
    • IEEE Control Systems Society
  • PROGRAM: 
    The two-day program consisted of about 60 twenty minutes presentations in twelve sessions.
  • PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
    • Raimo P. Hämäläinen (Chairman), Finland
    • Tamer Basar, USA
    • Geert Jan Olsder, The Netherlands
    • Boleslaw Tolwinski, USA
  • SYMPOSIUM COORDINATOR: Harri Ehtamo, Systems Analysis Laboratory, Finland
  • CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
    • R. P. Hämäläinen and H. Ehtamo (Eds.), Differential Games – Developments in modelling and Computation, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 156, Springer-Verlag, 1991.
    • R. P. Hämäläinen and H. Ehtamo (Eds.), Dynamic Games in Economic Analysis, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 157, Springer-Verlag, 1991.

Third International Symposium on Differential Games and Applications

The Third International Symposiums on Differential Games and Applications was held at INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France, June 16 and 17, 1988. The symposium co-chairmen were T. Basar (University of Illinois) and P. Bernhard (INRIA).

The symposium was located near Antibes, on the French Riviera. The dates were chosen so as to follow the 8th INRIA/IFAC International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems (June 8-10), and the third International Workshop of hte Bellman Continuum (June 13-14), which were held in Antibes and at INRIA-Sophia Antipolis respectively.

  • CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: 
    T. Basar and P. Bernhard (Eds.), Differential Games and Applications, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 119, Springer-Verlag, 1989.