Department of Mathematics

Prof Bernhard von Stengel

Department of Mathematics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
GB-London WC2A 2AE
Tel : +44-20-7955 6438   (please ring and leave message which will be emailed to me)
Email:   stengelnash.lse.ac.uk (preferred)   or   b.von-stengellse.ac.uk

Office: Columbia House COL 4.12

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Recent publications

Talk slides

Guide to Writing MSc Dissertations

PhDs completed under my supervision, and our academic ancestors

A puzzle: Cubes of paths are maximally planar - animation using JavaScript.

The LaTeX style file bimatrixgame.sty as used e.g. in my lecture notes

Courses I currently teach:

• (link to moodle page) MA208: Optimisation Theory

Media contributions

• John Nash and game theory and its relevance for the Greek crisis, BBC World News TV, May 25, 2015 (3:30 minutes, 22 MB mp4 file).
• Supermarket pricing, BBC Radio 4 PM programme with Eddie Mair, April 21, 2015 (5:04 minutes, 4.8 MB mp3 file), see also BBC webpage.
• The economics of the football transfer window, BBC2 Newsnight TV, September 1, 2014 (4:20 minutes, 31 MB ogv file). Transcript (pdf)

Recently organized workshops:

• ESRC Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory, LSE, October 17-18, 2013
• Stony Brook Workshop on Computational Game Theory, July 16-18, 2013
• ESRC Game Theory Workshop "Matching under Preferences" with Al Roth and others, February 6, 2013

Note on summer internships: We do not offer any internships, sorry, so please do not try to apply for one.