xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DYNAMIC GAMES E-LETTER, issue No. 40, April 6, 2001 Edited by Raimo P. Hamalainen and Harri Ehtamo Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology ISDG@HUT.FI http://www.hut.fi/Units/SAL/isdg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please, have a look at the updated ISDG web pages ! ! ! http://www.hut.fi/Units/SAL/isdg Especially note that you can now announce the forthcoming conferences (by including the corresponding conference web site) in the ISDG web pages in "News and conferences" or in "ISDG meetings". Mail your contributions to isdg@hut.fi This newsletter publishes only the most important news dealing with the operation of the ISDG society. Abstracts of Ph.D. theses, papers and books are also wellcome. You are now in the ISDG mailing list. Note that you can unsubscribe from the list, change your email adress in the list, or send your own messages to the list members by following the instructions in the above web site. Looking forward to receiving your news contributions. The Editors of the ISDG electronic newsletter xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Contributed by Pierre Bernhard Mar 30 Adelaide, Dec. 18-21, 2000 ISDG 2000 was held in the charming setting of Glenelg, just outside of Adelaide, South Australia, in a warm summer week December 18-21, 2000. (Quite a change for a few aliens of us coming from the Northern Hemisphere.) It was a very lively and interesting meeting. Many thanks are in order for those who made it that success, first of all Jerzy Filar, Vladimir Gaitsgory and Andrzej Nowak, and also, I understand, Lynne McArthur and a few others. The Executive Committee meeting, Dec. 21: ----------------------------------------- 1. Executive committee and other officers A new executive board of ISDG was formed, as follows. Remain from previous board (in office until 2002): - Pierre Bernhard - Michael Breitner - Raimo Hamalainen - Leon Petrosjan - Odile Pourtallier - Georges Zaccour Newly elected at Adelaide (in office until 2004): - Harri Ehtamo - Vladimir Gaitsgory - Alain Haurie - Fumiaki Imado - Jacqueline Morgan - Andrzej Nowak The following officers were elected from among the board members: President: Pierre Bernhard Vice President: Georges Zaccour Secretary: Harri Ehtamo Treasurer: Alain Haurie Liaison officer with the Game Theory Society: Leon Petrosjan 2. Membership fees The following scheme has been proposed to, and approved by, the General Assembly: Starting 2002, there will be a membership fee of $50 for two years of membership. It will systematically be made possible to simultaneously register at the ISDG International Symposium at a special "ISDG members" rate and pay the semi annual membership fee, for a total amount not larger than the regular (non member) registration rate for the said symposium. 3. Statutes and incorporation The question of whether to incorporate the Society, and where, has been considered again. The French law is suitable ("association de la loi de 1901"), but the banking system is not (i.e., it is aversive towards foreign currencies). The Canadian law and banking system seem fit, another possibility being with the University of Geneva (the Swiss banking system is supposed to be foreign currency-friendly.) If a workable system can be found (in Switzerland) to handle Society funds without formally incorporating it, this solution is favoured. The objective is that it be possible to have Symposium participants pay their registration directly to the ISDG. The ISDG treasurer would then keep the society membership part ($50) for the running of the society, and the Annals part (as up to now, $50) to pay Birkhauser for the volume of the Annals to be published after the symposium, and send the rest to the organizers of the symposium. Meanwhile, P.B. has taken up to develop the Statutes of the society from that where it had been left in Kanagava, Japan, in 1996 (see the "Statutes" in the main page of ISDG web pages), and in Maastricht in 1998. He submitted a text which has been simplified and improved by the E.B. The simplified version will be published later on. 4. Annals of ISDG Andrzej Nowak accepted to be the editor of the next volume of the Annals of the ISDG to follow the 9th ISDG Symposium. The annals to follow the 8th ISDG symposium are not out yet because of a problem of payment to Birkhauser. The organizers of the Maastricht meeting seem to have forgotten to withhold the amount reserved for the Annals in the registration fees ($50 per participant) and are in a quandary now as how to do because even so, they have a large deficit which was covered by the University of Maastricht. P.B. has a mandate to 1) find out (via T. Basar) how much money Birkhauser owes to the ISDG for the royalties of previous volumes, 2) write Koos Vrieze that he must absolutely find a way to have the difference paid on the Maastricht Meeting's budget, as had always be planned. Next Annals volume was proposed to have an edited issue on DGs' applications to mathematical finance. The following names vere proposed for possible co-editors: Jiongmin Yong (jyong@fudan.edu.cn), Chairman of the Math. Dept. and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Finance, Fudan U.,(he would be interested in coordinating the volume); Monique Jeanblanc (jeanbl@maths.univ-evry.fr), Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, Département de Mathématiques; Ioannis Karatzas Higgins (ik@shire.math.columbia.edu), Professor of Applied Probability, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Columbia U.; William D. Sudderth (bill@stat.umn.edu), Professor of Statistics, U. of Minnesota. This item will be discussed further with T. Basar, the editor of the series. 5. 2002 ISDG Symposium in St. Petersburg Leon Petrosjan offers two possibilities to hold the meeting: Either on a large boat steeming up and down the Neva river, or in a large hotel in the city. After a discussion of the merits of the two solutions, a ballot was called. The hotel solution won (by a small margin). Leon Petrosjan is positive about the fact that the registration fee will be about the same as that for the Adelaide meeting (plus $50 for the ISDG membership fee). xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Contributed by the Editors April 6 MODEL FOR NEWS SUBMISSIONS Maximum line length is 72 characters. Place the text between two lines of x:ses. The first line should state "Contributed by" and followed by the contributor's name, in brackets and the date. Then there should be a title line and the text. This info block should be sent to ISDG at HUT.FI xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx End of ISDG E-LETTER issue No. 40, April 6, 2001