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General topics: Game theory: Nash equilibrium computation; congestion games, and rate of convergence to Nash equilibrium. Social choice theory. Auctions: truthful mechanisms

Research group: I am head of the Economics and Computation Research Group (EcCo) here at Liverpool.

About my research: Overview of some topics — intended to be accessible to non-experts!

Introduction to PPAD: summary of a talk I gave at Dagstuhl seminar 07471 on 22.11.07.

Recent PCs: WINE 2011 11th ACM-EC; 12th ACM-EC; 3rd SAGT (Oct 2010); 6th AAIM (July 2010);

Talks: 23rd BCC (2011); 3rd SAGT (Oct 2010); GAMES 2010 (Sept 10); CS seminar Oxford (May 10); GAM (Apr 2010); inaugural lecture (March 2010)

2008 workshop on Computational Social Choice: I was PC co-chair. (COMSOC 2010)

Special issue of Mathematical Logic Quarterly on “Logic and Complexity within Computational Social Choice” (CFP, 2008)

I coordinated the proposal for a new degree program in e-finance.

I am PhD admissions tutor for The Department of Computer Science. Here are some guidelines on applying for PhD study.

I am a Professor (previously a Reader) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Liverpool, since August 2006. Prior to this I was at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, from 1997. I have also worked at Aston University and Sandia National Labs, USA. PhD (Edinburgh, ’92); BA (Oxford, ’88)

Nick Palmer thesis; Pattarawit Polpinit thesis

Theory matters: theoretical computer science (TCS) advocacy wiki; Appendix A: TCS breakthroughs

Open Problem Garden: wiki for math open problems