We’re happy to announce that two CS Department members have received this year’s Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards.

Prof. Amy Greenwald will work with Prof. Pedro Dal Bo of Economics on "The Power of Advice: Experimental Evidence on Correlated Equilibria”. Correlated equilibria generalize Nash equilibria by relaxing the assumption of independence to allow correlations in behavior. An everyday example of a correlated equilibrium is a traffic light: if a driver arrives at a traffic light and observes a red (green) signal, then drivers arriving in the perpendicular direction will observe a green (red) signal; thus, stopping ...