About this course
This elective course is concerned with understanding when and why cooperative behavior between organisms (including humans) can evolve. This is interesting from an ecological and philosophical perspective, but has also important practical applications, for example for understanding when and why a shared resource will be subject to the tragedy of the commons.
Goals for the participants are
- To understand the now classical works of evolutionary game theory that explain when and why organisms such as plants or animals including humans can evolve cooperative strategies
- To Learn the technical skills for describing the competition of alternative strategies under evolution with mathematical and computer models.
- Reproduce the result of classical modeling studies in evolutionary game theory (project work)
Lecturers
- Judith Korb
- Gita Benadi
- Florian Hartig
Important information for participants in winter term 14 /15
- Syllabus - timetable and room information for the course
- Campus management - the course description in the course catalog of the university
- Ilias page not yet set up - course material will be posted here
Questions / contact: Florian Hartig
Prerequisites, course format and grading
See syllabus
Past courses
- WS 13/14
- WS 14/15