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Berlekamp Memorial Workshop on Combinatorial Games October 21, 2019 - October 22, 2019

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Oct 21, 2019
Monday
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
  Welcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Elwyn Berlekamp and Combinatorial Game Theory
Aaron Siegel (Airbnb)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  TBA
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  The Cheating Robot
Melissa Huggan (Toronto Metropolitan University)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  The fragility of golden games
Urban Larsson (National University of Singapore)
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch Break
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Combinatorial games tournament
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea Break
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Combinatorial games tournament
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
  Discussion of workshop problems
05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
  Reception
Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
  A universal ruleset
Carlos Santos (CEAFEL-University of Lisbon)
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  Bounding the Boiling Point
Svenja Huntemann (Carleton University)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Yellow-Brown Hackenbush, incentives, and why uptimals are the numbers of the all-small world
Neil McKay (University of New Brunswick)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  Partisan Pic Arete
Richard Nowakowski (Dalhousie University)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Beatty Games Big and Small
Michael Fisher (West Chester University)
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
  Distinguishing Gamblers from Investors at the Blackjack Table
David Wolfe (QRAcorp)
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
  Lunch Break
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
  Workshop session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea Break
03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
  Workshop session