University of Texas at Austin

Past Event: Oden Institute Seminar

An Introduction to Mean Field Game Models

Pierre-Louis Lions, College de France

3:30 – 5PM
Tuesday Dec 9, 2008

POB 6.304

Abstract

This talk will be a general presentation of Mean Field Games (MFG in short), a new class of mathematical models and problems introduced and studied in collaboration with Jean-Michel Lasry. Roughly speaking, MFG are mathematical models that aim to describe the behavior of a very large number of "agents" who optimize their decisions while taking into account and interacting with the other agents. The derivation of MFG, which can be justified rigorously from Nash equilibria for N player games, letting N go to infinity, leads to new nonlinear systems involving differential equations and dynamical phenomena. Many classical systems are particular cases of MFG like, for example, compressible Euler equations, Hartree equations, porous media equations, semilinear elliptic equations, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, Vlasov-Boltzmann models... In this talk we shall explain how MFG models are derived and present some overview of the theory, its connections with many other fields and its applications.

Event information

Date
3:30 – 5PM
Tuesday Dec 9, 2008
Location POB 6.304
Hosted by J. Tinsley Oden