UCLA 数学: Lloyd S. Shapley (with Alvin Roth) 获诺贝尔经济奖

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Lloyd S. Shapley wins Nobel Memorial Prize in EconomicSciences

Our warmest congratulations to Lloyd Shapley, who today shared the 2012 NobelPrize in Economics with Alvin Roth (Harvard)!
The citation reads that the prize was awarded "for thetheory of stable allocations and the practice of market design". ProfessorShapley, in joint work with David Gale (UC Berkeley, 1921-2008), provided thetheoretical fundamentals. Their 1962 paper "College admissions andstability of marriage" explained how to match two groups of people (e.g.,men and women in the "marriage market") in a way that is stable.Professor Roth confirmed the applicability of this theory through a series oflaboratory experiments; this has led to a number of applications. For example,the theory of "market design" has been used in college admissions,allocations of new doctors to medical schools, assignments of children topublic schools, and even in organ donation.

Professor Shapley joined UCLA in 1981, holding a jointposition in the economics and mathematics department. He has been professoremeritus since 2000.