The Department of Economics at Istanbul Technical University is organizing an International Workshop in Fair Division. The workshop will be held on February 9, 2019, at the Management Faculty of Istanbul Technical University. This workshop aims to bring scholars in the area of Fair Division to present and discuss their current research and to foster interaction and collaboration on new research perspectives.
Fair Division is an active field of research that considers to allocate scarce resources and to design social institutions. Recently, it has become a subject of interdisciplinary research at the interface of Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science with successful real-life applications including divorce and inheritance settlements, border settlements in international disputes, allocation of mineral riches in the ocean bed, greenhouse gas reductions, bandwidth and memory allocation in networks, cost sharing in communication networks and many others.