Karl Sigmund

Abstract Evolutionary game theory helps to investigate the role of incentives in promoting cooperative behavior in joint enterprises. In particular, this lecture deals with the surprising effects of optional participation in collaborative enterprises...

Abstract: A richly illustrated talk about Goedel's time in Vienna. These fifteen years cover his brilliant start at the University and his discovery of the incompleteness theorems, the confused period between Hitler's rise to power in Germany and the...

Albert Einstein is usually associated with Zürich, Bern, Berlin or Princeton, rather than Vienna. However, his Viennese contacts were many-sided and highly relevant for his work. Ernst Mach had a major influence on the general theory of relativity...