New Algorithm for Graph Crossings
Primary resource consulted: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-algorithm-for-graph-crossings-hiding-in-plain-sight-20200915/ A summary: The article linked explores the journey of two scientists, Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg, who were looking for the key needed to formulate a faster algorithm that could determine when adding edges to a graph is possible so that the resulting graph remains “planar.” This more efficient algorithm would […]
Fashion Industry and the Prisoners’ Dilemma
The fashion industry is notoriously known as being a volatile and temperamental market. With designers releasing a new collection every half year and fashion shows occurring even more frequently, it can be hard for high and fast fashion stores to keep with the everchanging tides of fashion trends. Many retailers like H&M are struggling to […]
Game Theory and International Relations: the benefit of alliances
A number of complicated real life situations can be modeled as games. One such example is of interactions between nations, either in economic relationships or in conflict. Some wars are zero sum and can be modeled as zero sum games; a country deciding on a strategy to defend its territory can be zero sum if […]
COVID-19 Depends on Networks & Technology Can Slow the Virus
COVID-19 has highlighted the pervasiveness of how social network contact dominates nearly every sector of our lives, including employment, education, entertainment, travel, transportation, and recreation. By this time, we have somewhat adapted to leaving our homes while wearing masks and social distancing instead of strictly quarantining with no outside contact. This means that physical social […]
Love is a Game: Reality Dating Shows
Loneliness and boredom during quarantine resulted in millions of viewers from around the world – including me – to pick up one of the endless amounts of dating shows. Guilty pleasures for many, classics like The Bachelor and Love Island to new releases like Paradise Hotel, Love is Blind, and Too Hot to Handle allow […]
Graph Theory Can Explain My Job Recruitment Process
To be honest, this fall, I have been severely struggling with job recruitment. So, as soon as I decided to take “Networks”, I immediately thought of “networking”. Here are all the ways networks and graph theory can explain certain experiences I had during my job recruitment process. Because I am part of a women in […]
The (Political) Supreme Court & Dominant Strategies
Article: A Game Theorist’s Advice To President Trump on Filling the Supreme Court In response to the recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bhaskar Chakravorti penned an opinion piece in The Hill to supposedly “advise” President Trump on filling the Supreme Court this election season. In reality, Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at Tufts, lays […]
Triadic Closure in the Cohesive Clustering of Spotted Hyenas
Cohesive clustering is a phenomenon that not only occurs in human societies, but also the social network dynamics of non-human species such as spotted hyenas. Clustering can “facilitate efficient cooperation” and, in the case of animal species, “maximize fitness”. Based on a study done by the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and Michigan […]
When Following the Crowd Works: Trend-Following in Markets Explained Using Game Theory
In financial markets, traders aim to profit by predicting what the majority of investors will do and taking these actions before others do. Many traders rely on the analysis of fundamental data to find insights that they believe other investors have not yet found, but will eventually find and act on. Others however, make […]
Game Theory in Basketball – The Game Winning Shot
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/rjmorgan/mba211/Chow%20Heavy%20Industries%20Final%20Project.pdf In basketball, strategy is everything. Much of the strategic decisions made throughout a basketball game are made by the coaches. There is one situation in particular that truly tests a coaches decision making talent: crunch time, the end of the game. Decisions made by coaches during these situations are critical to a team’s […]
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