Instructors: Caroline Hammond, Mark Lovett, Thomas Zdyrski
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Syllabus
| Week | Lecture | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Lec 1 | Evolutionary Games: Introduction & Overview | Nowak, M. A., & Sigmund, K. (2004). Evolutionary dynamics of biological games. Science, 303(5659), 793-799. |
| Lec 2 | Stability Concepts: Nash Equilibrium vs. Evolutionarily Stable Strategy | Smith, J. M., & Price, G. R. (1973). The logic of animal conflict. Nature, 246(5427), 15-18. |
| Lec 3 | Replicator Equations and Its Connection with Ecological Dynamics | Bomze, I. M. (1983). Lotka-Volterra equation and replicator dynamics: a two-dimensional classification. Biological cybernetics, 48(3), 201-211. |
| Lec 4 | Social Dilemmas of Cooperation | Kollock, P. (1998). Social dilemmas: The anatomy of cooperation. Annual Review of Sociology, 183-214. |
| Lec 5 | Rules for Cooperation | Nowak, M. A. (2006). Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Science, 314(5805), 1560-1563. |
| Lec 6 | Repeated Games | Binmore, K. G., & Samuelson, L. (1992). Evolutionary stability in repeated games played by finite automata. Journal of Economic Theory, 57(2), 278-305. Press, W. H., & Dyson, F. J. (2012). Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(26), 10409-10413. |
| Lec 7 | Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multi-Person Games | Hardin, G., (1998) Extensions of "the tragedy of the commons". Science, 280(5364): 682-683. |
| Lec 8 | Spatial Games | Nowak, M. A., & May, R. M. (1992). Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature, 359(6398), 826-829. |
| Lec 9 | Adaptive Dynamics | Dieckmann, U., & Law, R. (1996). The dynamical theory of coevolution: a derivation from stochastic ecological processes. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 34(5-6), 579-612. |
| Lec 10 | Evolutionary Branching | Hofbauer, J., & Sigmund, K. (2003). Evolutionary game dynamics. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 40(4), 479-519. Doebeli, M., Hauert, C., & Killingback, T. (2004). The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors. Science, 306(5697), 859-862. |
| Lec 11 | Finite Populations I | Nowak, M. A., Sasaki, A., Taylor, C., & Fudenberg, D. (2004). Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite populations. Nature, 428(6983), 646-650. Traulsen, A., Claussen, J. C., & Hauert, C. (2005). Coevolutionary dynamics: from finite to infinite populations. Physical Review Letters, 95(23), 238701. |
| Lec 12 | Finite Population II | Fudenberg, D., Nowak, M. A., Taylor, C., & Imhof, L. A. (2006). Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations with strong selection and weak mutation. Theoretical population biology, 70(3), 352-363. |
| Lec 13 | Evolutionary Graph Theory | Lieberman, E., Hauert, C., & Nowak, M. A. (2005). Evolutionary dynamics on graphs. Nature, 433(7023), 312-316. Ohtsuki, H., Hauert, C., Lieberman, E., & Nowak, M. A. (2006). A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks. Nature, 441(7092), 502-505. Perc, M., & Szolnoki, A. (2010). Coevolutionary games--a mini review. BioSystems, 99(2), 109-125. |
| Lec 14 | Vaccination Dilemma | Bauch, C. T., & Earn, D. J. (2004). Vaccination and the theory of games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(36), 13391-13394. |
| Lec 15 | Evolutionary Dynamics of In-group Favoritism | Masuda, N., & Fu, F. (2015). Evolutionary models of in-group favoritism. F1000Prime Reports, 7, 27. |
| Lec 16 | Evolution of Homophily | Fu, F., Nowak, M.A., Christakis, N.A., & Fowler, J.H.(2012) The evolution of homophily. Scientific reports, 2: 845. |
| Week 9 | Final Project Presentations | TBD |