The event took place on 22–23 May 2025 at the University of Bath, bringing together around 30 participants over two days. All PhD students and speakers were invited to a networking dinner, providing a relaxed and informal setting for engagement. Funding allocation was prioritised for students and early-career researchers (ECRs).
This workshop examined the role of auctions in allocating resources in various fields and industries, including economic, social, and computational. The two-day event brought together researchers and industry professionals for a range of sessions covering theoretical and empirical research around this topic. It included insights from guest speakers (details below) who shared their perspectives and detailed recent advancements and key challenges. Here is the details of the speakers and the talks.
Dr Elizabeth Baldwin (University of Oxford)Product-mix auctions
Professor Todd Kaplan (University of Exeter and University of Haifa) A natural experiment in fair division: Armageddon chess
Professor Indrajit Ray (Cardiff University) An experiment on the role of priors in a discrete bid Japanese English auction for a wallet game
Dr Aleksei Chernulich (Durham University) Duels between duals: Compensation auctions
Dr Xiaoyu Zhou (University of Nottingham) Market selection of strategic thinking types
Professor Subhasish M Chowdhury – (University of Sheffield) Optimal reimbursement schemes in contests
Dr Sohail Ahmed – Lead Structurer, EP Commodities B.V Dutch power market, renewable subsidies and structured products
Dr Georgios Piliouras – Google DeepMind The complex dynamics of real world markets and auctions
Dr Ron Lavi (University of Bath) Principal-Agent VCG contracts
Dr Tatiana Kornienko (King’s College) London Competitive bidding, predation, and expropriation: A unified model
Alessandro Veneri (European University Institute) Competition in digital advertising with asymmetric consumer information
Dr Elnaz Bajoori (University of Bath) Bidding behaviour in security bid auctions: theory and experiment
Dr Kei Tsutsui (University of Bath) Experimental effects of institutionalizing co-determination by a procedurally fair bidding rule
Professor Francesco Giovannoni (University of Bristol) Pricing novel goods