[agents] Final CfP Summer School on Fair Division (deadline for applications: 24th of April)

[Nicolas Maudet]

(with apologies for multiple postings)

::: Final Call for Participation
::: !Two weeks extension for applications!


::: Summer School on Fair Division
::: Grenoble, France
::: 13--17 July
::: http://fairdiv-15.imag.fr/

The school is a COST Action IC1205 event,
and is supported by a grant from the Persyval Labex.
Registration is *free* but mandatory, with a limited number of
participants (see below).

::: Lecturers:

* Ioannis Caragiannis, Univ. of Patras
* Ulle Endriss, Univ. of Amsterdam
* Gianluigi Greco, Univ. of Calabria
* Dorothea Herreiner, Loyola Marymount University
* Christian Klamler, Univ. of Graz
* Jérôme Lang, Univ. Paris-Dauphine
* Michel Lemaitre, formerly at ONERA, Toulouse
* Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology

::: Topics covered:

* Preferences over Bundles of Indivisible Items
* Cost-sharing Problems
* Fairness and Efficiency
* Protocols for Allocating Indivisible Items
* Cake-Cutting
* Experimental Fair Division
* Mechanism Design and Fair Division
* Case Studies in Fair Division

The COST Action IC1205 "Computational Social Choice" will offer grants
to students coming from European countries participating in this
Action (in particular PhD students, postdocs, and Master's students).

To check whether your country is one of 31 members of the Action,
please check at:
http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/ict/Actions/IC1205?parties

The summer school will not charge any registration fee. It will
propose accommodations at the university residency during the summer
school at a low price.

::: Applications

Applications should be sent by email, by April 24th, 2015 to:
-- Sylvain Bouveret (sylvain.bouveret[symbolyouknow]imag.fr)
-- Nicolas Maudet (nicolas.maudet[symbolyouknow]lip6.fr).

Each application should contain:
-- a CV
-- (for Ph.D. students) a letter of recommendation from
the advisor.
-- (for Master's students) a letter of recommendation from the
head of the Master's program.
-- (if you wish to present a poster) an extended abstract of 3 pages,
references included
-- (if you wish to benefit from a grant of the COST action) indicate
that you apply for a grant, and specify the expected ticket price for
the trip.

The summer school will accept a maximal number of 45 participants.

::: Important dates

(Extended) Deadline for Submission: April 24th
Notification of Acceptance : May 2nd
Deadline for registration: May 22th
Summer school: July 13th-17th