Workshop

Workshop on Combinatorial Games, in honor of Elwyn Berlekamp's 75th Birthday

November 01, 2015 - November 02, 2015

Registration Deadline:	November 02, 2015 about 9 years ago

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Location:	SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Atrium

Organizers

David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Richard Guy (University of Calgary), Thane Plambeck (Counterwave, Inc.), Aaron Siegel (Airbnb)

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Elwyn Berlekamp (Elwyn & Jennifer Berlekamp Foundation)
David desJardins
Aviezri Fraenkel (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Solomon Golomb (University of Southern California)
Richard Guy (University of Calgary)
Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie University)
Thane Plambeck (Counterwave, Inc.)
Aaron Siegel (Airbnb)
Jorge Nuno Silva (University of Lisbon)
Tadashi Tokieda (Stanford University)
David Wolfe (QRAcorp)

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A two-day workshop with research-level talks on combinatorial game theory, one of the fields to which Elwyn Berlekamp has made enormous contributions.

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Nov 01, 2015
Sunday

09:15 AM - 09:30 AM		Introduction
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM		Break
Location SLMath: Atrium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM		Polyomino Update Solomon Golomb (University of Southern California)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM		Games For Arbitrarily Fat Rats Aviezri Fraenkel (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract In kindergarten we learned about the integers (Peano axioms); in gram- mar schhol { about pairs of integers (rationals); and then in high school, about the reals (Dedekind cuts). Berlekamp, Conway, Guy discovered and promoted a method (Don Knuth: \Surreal Numbers") of creating all of those and much more { namely games! { in one masterful stroke. Yet the rationals sometimes present obstinate diculties often over- looked. Example. Let 1 < 1 <; : : : ;< m be real numbers, dubbed moduli , m 3. An over 40 years old conjecture states that there exist reals i such that the system (bn1 + 1c; : : : ; bnmc + mc) constitutes a complemen- tary system of m sequences of integers if and only if i = (2m Supplements -- Show Detail
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM		Lunch
Location SLMath: Atrium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
01:30 PM - 02:15 PM		Geometric Nim endgames & other misere mysteries Thane Plambeck (Counterwave, Inc.)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract I'll summarize open problems in misere impartial games that I wish you would would work on Supplements -- Show Detail
02:15 PM - 02:45 PM		Intro to the Disjunctive Sum Tournament
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
02:45 PM - 05:15 PM		Afternoon tea and early rounds of tournament
Location SLMath: Atrium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail

Nov 02, 2015
Monday

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM		Nothing Goes Exactly as Planned David Wolfe (QRAcorp)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM		Break
Location SLMath: Atrium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM		From UCB-Math275 to the Portuguese Conspiracy (and Cats & Dogs) Jorge Nuno Silva (University of Lisbon)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract As a graduate student at UCB in the early 1990s, I attended Math275 - Combinatorial Game Theory. I will try to share with the audience how striking it was for me, and likely for others, to attend Elwyn Berlekamp's classes. I will also show how the seed planted at that moment grew in Portugal, years later Supplements -- Show Detail
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM		Memgames Aaron Siegel (Airbnb)
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12:15 PM - 01:30 PM		Lunch
Location SLMath: Atrium Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail
01:30 PM - 02:15 PM		Additive Combinatorial Games: From Z to A Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie University)
Location SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium Video Abstract I will present the extension of Normal play games to Scoring games with Zugzwangs and, passing through Category theory, to end at Absolute Game Spaces. Supplements -- Show Detail
02:15 PM - 05:15 PM		Afternoon tea and tournament finals
Location SLMath: Baker Board Room Video -- Abstract -- Supplements -- Show Detail