Decision Sciences & Systems (DSS)
Department of Informatics (I18)
Technical University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Martin Bichler
Prof. Dr. Felix Brandt
 Source: TUM |
We dedicate our work to research and education on managerial decision and planning problems as well as on the foundations of auctions, social choice, and game theory. We conduct theoretical and experimental research and collaborate with industry partners in these fields.
Current research topics include market design, algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, and discrete optimization in various applications. For BSc/MSc theses applications, please see Theses topics. |
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| A summary of the last public SynErgie outreach workshop with 100 participants from 16 countries is now online. |
| The DFG project "An Axiomatic and Computational Study of Probabilistic Social Choice" (PI: Felix Brandt) has been extended for three more years. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation at the International Conference 'New Directions in Social Choice' on July 12th, 2021. |
| Martin Bichler will provide a lecture in the ALOP Autumn School on Optimization and Market Design, October 3-7. Other speakers are Moshe Babaioff, Garrett van Ryzin, and Rakesh Vohra. Registration is free. |
| Martin Bichler will deliver a keynote at the IFORS meeting 2021 end of August. IFORS is the international conference of all Operations Research societies world-wide held only every three years. |
| Martin Bichler will give a presentation end of September 27, 2021 in the Virtual Market Design Seminar Series. |
| Our group co-organizes the SynErgie Workshop on electricity market design on June 29 with invited talks by Frank Wolak (Stanford), Ben Hobbs (Johns Hopkins), and Richard O'Neill (FERC), and Natalia Fabra (Madrid). Register now! |
| Felipe Maldonado has accepted a job offer for a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) position in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Essex, UK . |
| The call for papers for the INFORMS Market Design Workshop with Martin Bichler as co-organizer is online! Invited talks by Asu Ozdaglar (MIT), Tommy Andersson (Lund), and Wedad Elmaghraby (Maryland). |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory on June 13th, 2021. |
| Former PhD student Florian Brandl will become the first Argelander Professor at the University of Bonn and join the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics. |
| Martin Bichler will give a seminar talk on Economic Policy at the ZEW Mannheim on March 24, 2021. |
| Martin Bichler will give a seminar talk at UT Dallas on March 26, 2021. |
| We have open PhD or Postdoc position in our group with a focus on convex optimization and machine learning. Applications are sent to Martin Bichler. |
| Felix Brandt will give a presentation in the COMSOC Video Seminar on March 25th, 2021. |
| Felipe Maldonado was invited for a podcast session organized by the Australian Tech Company HIVERY. In the podcast they discuss about discrete choice models and their applications to Retail Industry. You can find the podcast here. |
| Martin Bichler will give an invited talk at the Distinguished Guest Speaker Series of Georgia Tech on February 5, 2021. |
| VoxEU article on auctioning airport time slots by Martin Bichler, Peter Cramton, Peter Gritzmann, and Axel Ockenfels. |
| Whitepaper on future electricity market design published by the SynErgie Consortium with Martin Bichler, Johannes Knörr, and Felipe Maldonado as co-authors. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation in the Economic Theory Seminar of the Sorbonne Economics Centre, Paris, on March 19th, 2021. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation in the Israeli Theory Seminar (Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on March 3rd, 2021. |
| Newspaper article on the allocation of airport time slots by Martin Bichler, Peter Cramton, Peter Gritzmann, and Axel Ockenfels in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on December 21, 2020. |
| Felix Brandt has been invited to the Nobel Symposium "One Hundred Years of Game Theory" to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, in December 2021. |
| Martin Bichler gave a talk in the Nobel Prize Lectures together with Professor Klaus Schmidt organized by the Economics Department at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). |
| The dissertation by Paul Sutterer nominated for best dissertation at the WITS conference 2020! |
| Our joint work (Martin Bichler and Gregor Schwarz) with Paul Milgrom was featured in his Nobel Prize Lecture on December 7. Today also our paper in OR News appeared (in German) discussing the contributions of Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson and their relationship to Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Several papers of our group are mentioned in the writeup by the Nobel Prize Committee on the scientific background of the award. |
| Martin Bichler ranked in the top 0.5% (rank 15) among 3346 scholars in the management sciences in Europe based on the publication ranking of the Wirtschaftswoche in 2020. |
| Invited talks by Martin Bichler in online seminars scheduled in spring at Georgia Tech, the University of Dallas, and the ZEW (Mannheim). |
| Martin Bichler gives an invited talk on Market Design at the Max-Planck-Institute in Bonn on November 16, 2020. |
| Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, both from Stanford University, are the winners of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats." Paul Milgrom is a co-author of our group and just recently provided a keynote at a conference we organized in Munich. |
| As part of the coursework for the Seminar on Data Mining, the student team "Tera Miners" with Michael Gigler, Nikita Makarov, Franziska Röber, and Felix Schramm was announced the Overall Winner of the world finals in the 2020 Teradata Data Challenge. The team "Legendary Data Miners" has received an honorable mention. Congratulations! |
| The INFORMS AMD Section offers a new Online Seminar Series with an outstanding line-up of speakers. The talk by our inaugural speaker, Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth (Stanford) can be found on our Youtube channel. |
| Invited talk on our equilibrium learning technique NPGA at the NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting on October 24, 2020. |
| Call for the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award is available (Committee Chairs: Baskerville, Bichler, Cecez-Kecmanovic) |
| The BISE journal (past EiC M. Bichler) achieved an impact factor of 5.837 and a 5-year impact factor of 7.6. It is now one of the highest-ranking journals in the field by IF. |
| ACM SIGACT book review for "Market Design: A Linear Programming Approach" by Martin Bichler. |
| Several positions in the PhD program “Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy” |
| Martin Bichler is Cluster Chair for the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Washington DC, November 8-11, 2020. |
| Ágnes Cseh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) will give a talk on Optimal Kidney Exchange with Immunosuppressants in our seminar on February 18, 2020 at 5pm. |
| Dirk Briskorn (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) will give a talk on Grantry Crane Scheduling in Seaports on February 12, 2020 at 5pm. |
| Martin Bichler and Felipe Maldonado co-organize a workshop on electricity market design on March 25 in Augsburg. Participants include Endre and Mette Björndahl (NHH), Peter Cramton (Cologne), Karsten Neuhoff (DIW), etc. |
| Felix Brandt has received the TUM TeachInf Award 2019 for the best elective course in computer science (Computational Social Choice). |
| Our group organized the joint reception of the BISE journal, the WISE and WITS conferences at Nymphenburg Palace with Paul Milgrom as keynote speaker. The event was followed by a two-day conference in the H4 hotel in Munich with Wl van der Aalst as keynote speaker. Co-organizers of WITS were Martin Bichler and Wolf Ketter. |
| Felix Brandt has joined the board of TopMath (an elite doctoral program in mathematics within the Elite Network of Bavaria). |
| Anaëlle Wilczynski has received the Prix Jeunes Chercheurs 2019 de la Fondation Dauphine for her PhD thesis. |
| The DFG Research Training Group AdONE has open PhD positions for students interested in Operations Research. Call for Applications |
| M. Bichler will be a keynote speaker at the IFORS conference in Seoul, South Korea. IFORS is the peak body for Operations Research societies worldwide, and the conference is the world-wide meeting taking place every three years. |
| During the 81st Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research, Layla Martin was awarded the "Best Master Thesis Award" by Junior Management Science for her thesis supervised by Paul Karaenke and M. Bichler. |
| Open PhD and Postdoc positions on operations research and market design in our group. Please contact M. Bichler. |
| M. Bichler will give an invited talk at the Vienna University at the Department of Statistics and Operations Reserach in May 2020. |
| A short article about market design and the NSW fishery rights exchange (designed by M. Bichler and V. Fux) apppeared in BusinessThink. |
| Dr. Waldherr has accepted a job offer as a tenure track professor at the VU Amsterdam. |
| We participate in the SynErgie Kopernikus project and contribute a market design of energy spot markets in 2050. |
| AdONE Retreat in Benediktbeuern with presentations by Martin Bichler and Maximilian Fichtl. |
| M. Bichler will be the new President of the INFORMS Section on Auctions and Market Design. |
| A paper by Paul Karaenke, Martin Bichler and Stefan Minner in Management Science was nominated by the SIG Logistics for the VHB Best Paper Award. |
| Felix Brandt will become managing co-editor of Social Choice and Welfare in 2020. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation at the CRM Workshop on Voting Systems in Montréal, Canada, in February 2020. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation in the Economic Theory Seminar at Tel Aviv University in June, 2020. |
| Anaëlle Wilczynski received the Doctoral College Paris Science & Lettres (PSL) prize in "Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Interfaces" for her PhD thesis and will give an invited presentation in Paris in December, 2019. |
| Martin Bichler will give an invited presentation during the thematic semester on Optimization 2020: Mathematics of Decision Making in Montréal, Canada. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited presentation at the International Conference on Mathematical Optimization for Fair Social Decisions: A Tribute to Michel Balinski in Paris, France, in December 2019. |
| Martin Bichler will give the opening talk at the BISE young scholars workshop at the University of Augsburg on September 27, 2019. |
| TUM student teams supervised by G. Schwarz and C. Müller win places 1, 4 and 7 in the German Collegiate Programming Contest! |
| The BISE journal (EiC M. Bichler) reached an impact factor of 3.6 for 2018, one of the highest scores in its field, and more than 288,000 downloads. |
| Call for papers for the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (co-chair M. Bichler) is out! Paul Milgrom (Stanford Economics) and Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen) will be keynote speakers for the conference. There will be a joint reception at Nymphenburg Palace with the WISE conference and the BISE journal. |
| The ICIS Doctoral Consortium (co-chair M. Bichler) will be held in Schloss Hohenkammer. |
| Program for the INFORMS Workshop on Market Design (co-chair M. Bichler) in Phoenix is online. |
| M. Bichler delivers the opening keynote at the INFORMS TLS meeting in July 2019. |
| Anaëlle Wilczynski received the 1st prize by the French Association for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA) for her PhD thesis and will give an invited presentation at PFIA 2019. |
| M. Bichler on the 5G spectrum auction in Germany in the Wirtschaftswoche magazin. |
| Felix Brandt will give an invited plenary presentation in the Highlights Beyond EC session at ACM EC 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| Anaëlle Wilczynski will give an invited presentation at the 3rd ILLC Workshop on Collective Decision Making in Amsterdam. |