Fair division
Graduate Seminar on Algorithms and Optimization (S4C3), Summer 2025
Course instructors: Hannaneh Akrami, Wenzheng Li, László Végh
Course information
Slides from the planning meeting
Schedule
Regular talks normally run 14:15-15:45, and practice talks on 16:15-17:45 on Friday.
The seminars will take place at the Seminar room in the Discrete Mathematics Institute (Lennéstr. 2).
| Nr. |
Practice talk |
Presentation |
Name |
Topic |
Mentoring |
| 1
| 27.03
| 11.04
| Lilian Witters
| Rental Harmony: Sperner's Lemma in Fair Division
| Wenzheng Li
|
| 2
| 17.04.
| 2.05.
| Johann Haas-Jobelius
| The Unreasonable Fairness of Maximum Nash Welfare
| Hana Akrami
|
| 3
| 24.04.
| 09.05.
| Jonas Handwerker
| Finding Fair and Efficient Allocations
| Wenzheng Li
|
| 4
| 02.05.
| 16.05.
| Milica Šobot
| Convex Program Duality, Fisher Markets, and Nash Social Welfare
| Wenzheng Li
|
| 5
| 09.05.
| 23.05.
| Owen Cardwell
| On Approximate Envy-Freeness for Indivisible Chores and Mixed Resources
| Hana Akrami
|
| 6
| 16.05.
| 30.05.
| Abdullah Irfan Basheer
| A Little Charity Guarantees Almost Envy-Freeness
| Hana Akrami
|
| 7
| 23.05.
| 06.06.
| Jakob Gierschmann
| EFX: A Simpler Approach and an (Almost) Optimal Guarantee via Rainbow Cycle Number
| Hana Akrami
|
| 8
| 03.06.
| 20.06.
| Miká Kruschel
| Simplification and Improvement of MMS Approximation
| Hana Akrami
|
| 9
| 16.06.
| 27.06.
| Lucia Krajčoviechová
| Reduction from Chores Allocation to Job Scheduling
| Hana Akrami
|
| 10
| 20.06.
| 04.07.
| Leonard Weismantel
| Approximating Nash Social Welfare by Matching and Local Search
| Wenzheng Li
|
| 11
| 27.06.
| 11.07.
| Jofre Costa i Delgado
| A Note on Approximating Weighted Nash Social Welfare with Additive Valuations
| Wenzheng Li
|
| 12
| 04.07
| 18.07.
| Moritz Petrich
| Best of Both Worlds: Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Fairness in Resource Allocation
| Hana Akrami
|