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About SING and IMGTA A BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR PAST MEETINGS (thanks to Gianfranco Gambarelli)
Italy The first occasion in which Italian researchers joined for a meeting on Game Theory dates back to 1983, thanks to the initiative of Gianfranco Gambarelli and Michele Grillo. On the 12 of October in Bergamo, a working day was held about: "A discussion between economists and mathematicians: recent contributions from Game Theory to Economics". One year later, Pierangelo Mori and Fioravante Patrone organized, in Pavia (December 14 and 15) the first meeting under the heading that was going to last for long time: "Convegno di Teoria dei Giochi ed Applicazioni" (which was numbered as "second meeting" to acknowledge the relevance of the "working day" held in Bergamo). Invited speakers were Gerhard Schwodiauer and Stef Tijs. Then came Firenze, in 1986: the meeting was on 23rd and 24th May, and it was organized by Andrea Battinelli and Guidi. The invited speakers were Michael Bacharach and Reinhard Selten. Again the turn of Bergamo, in 1987 (main organizer: Gambarelli), followed by Cagliari 1988 (Andrea Battinelli), Modena 1989 (Gianni Ricci), Pisa 1992 (Giacomo Costa), Genova 1993 (Fausto Mignanego and Fioravante Patrone), Siena 1995 (Stefano Vannucci), Bergamo (the 10th, edition, again Gambarelli) 1996, Milano 1997 (Michele Polo and Gilli), Genova 1998 (jointly with Game Practice I, Fioravante Patrone), Bologna 1999 (Elettra Agliardi). During this period the "CITG" (Centro Interuniversitario per la Teoria dei Giochi e le sue Applicazioni - Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and Applications) was created, under the initiative of the researchers in Pavia, Bergamo and Firenze. It was born in Firenze (official birth date: December 31, 1990) with the participation of a dozen of Universities. The first director was, for six years, Piero Tani, followed by Marco Dardi and Fioravante Patrone. A new form of this Center is forthcoming. The CITG organized the "International Conference on Game Theory" in Firenze, from 25 to 27 of June, 1991. The meeting of Ischia 2001 was organized by Jaqueline Morgan having in mind the alternation agreement with Spain, and luckily saw a very good participation of Spanish researchers. Gian Italo Bischi organized the 2003 Meeting in Urbino, where a lot special sections were organized by Gambarelli in honour of the 65-th birthday of Guillermo Owen. Andrea di Liddo is the organizer of the 2006 edition at Foggia.
SpainThe number of Spanish game theorists has increased considerably in the last 15 years. In 1994 it was decided to hold a Spanish Meeting on Game Theory every two years. The meetings in Bilbao (1994) organized by Federico Valenciano, Santiago de Compostela (1996) organized by Ignacio García-Jurado, Barcelona (1998) organized by Carles Rafels, Valencia (2000) organized by Amparo Urbano and Sevilla (2002) organized by Jesus Mario Bilbao and Francisco R. Fernández , were a great success, with more than 100 presentations in each of them. This shows the good health of the many Spanish research groups in Game Theory and their growing international links. The Sixth Spanish Meeting has been held in Elche (Alicante) on July 12-14, 2004, organized by Joaquin Sanchez-Soriano.
The Netherlands
Although the Netherlands has a large number of game theorists in all subdisciplines, there is no tradition of organizing Dutch game theory conferences. There is a monthly game theory seminar (afternoon or day) in Tilburg, first established in Nijmegen in 1982 by Stef Tijs, and now under the responsibility of Peter Borm. There is also, since the middle of the eighties, a monthly seminar on the closely related area of social choice in Tilburg, organized by Ton Storcken, Ad van Deemen, and Harrie de Swart. In 1996, the Third International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare was organized (in Maastricht) by Hans Peters and Ton Storcken. The first conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice (LGS1) was organized by Harrie de Swart in 1999 (Tilburg-Oisterwijk). In 2002, Peter Borm c.s. organized a game theory conference on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Stef Tijs (Tilburg). Several workshops on (cooperative) game theory were and are organized by Gerard van der Laan and René van den Brink (Amsterdam) and Theo Driessen (Enschede). The 8-th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications was organized by Frank Thuijsman and Koos Vrieze (Maastricht-Vaalsbroek, 1998).
The joint ventureIn 2000 Federico Valenciano organized in Bilbao GAMES 2000, the first Meeting of the Game Theory Society. During this conference Fioravante Patrone, director of the Italian CITG, took the initiative of looking for a "joint venture" between Italy and Spain, suggesting the alternation of Italian and Spanish meetings. The agreement of this idea by the involved researchers lead to the meetings of Ischia (2001), Sevilla (2002), Urbino (2003) and Elche (2004). During the Meeting of Urbino the idea of Netherlands as a “new entry” into the Italian-Spanish alternation was eagerly approved. The first edition of SING (Spanish-Italian-Netherlands Game Theory Meeting) has been organized by Hans Peters in Maastricht from 24 to 26 June 2005. Andrea di Liddo is now organizing in Foggia the 2006 edition. Next year we will see in Madrid.
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