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April 8, 2009
New Economic School (NES) of Russia supported by Alcoa Foundation held Workshops оn the Theory of Games at Samara State Aerospace University (SGAU)
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Samara – On March 30-31, 2009 specialists from the New Economic School (NES), one of the Russian leading universities in economics, held workshops on the theory of games in economics at Samara State Aerospace University (SGAU) through support of Alcoa Foundation. The workshops were delivered by NES leading lecturers Alexey Savvateyev, Ph.D., and Dmitry Krutikov, NES associated lecturer.
The workshops were held for lecturers and senior students of the Department of Economics and Management, SGAU, under the Alcoa Foundation grant allocated to NES to help prevent brain drain in economics and build a world class faculty of economics in Russia. The launching event was attended by Vladimir Bogatyrev, Dean of the Department of Economics and Management, SGAU, Alexey Savvateyev, NES Ph.D., and Dmitry Krutikov, NES associated lecturer, Marina Fedorova, coordinator of Alcoa Foundation programs in Samara, leading lecturers and best senior students in economics SGAU.
For two days the participants of the workshops (about 50 people) attended a course on the theory of games including main concepts on the theory of cooperative (coalition) and noncooperative (strategic) games. Alexey Savvateyev, NES Ph.D., said that “the theory of games is the science about how to forecast results of interrelationships of conflicting parties”. Concepts of the theory of games have an increasing importance in modern economics and other sciences related to decision-making processes. During the workshops the audience acquired new knowledge in the theory of games, obtained practical skills in implementing game-models, learned about such conceptual subjects as the gamer, the strategy and payoffs, acquired intensive hands-on training on the theory of games and listened to lecture courses.
The workshops and lectures attracted great interest of the audience. As Vladimir Bogatyrev, Dean of the Department of Economics and Management, SGAU, said “such events are extremely valuable for universities to exchange best practices and to improve opportunities for implementation of innovative methods and curricula”. On behalf of SGAU management he thanked Alcoa Foundation for the opportunity to organize these workshops and expressed his hope for further development of relations between SGAU and NES under the Alcoa Foundation grant.
Education is one of the Areas of Excellence of Alcoa Foundation worldwide. The above educational course corresponds to Alcoa Foundation long-term strategy in Russia and aims to contribute to improve educational level in economics in Russian universities.
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