Public Goods Games with Nonlinearities
About
Public goods games are a model of many-player social dilemmas; we study these games from the perspective of evolutionary game theory, and particularly the evolution of cooperation and altruism. We introduce non-linearities to the benefit of the public good, finding that non-linearities have impacts on the relationship between resource inequality and evolutionary dynamics.
Speaker
Gavin Rees
Gavin Rees is a PhD student in Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences whose work combines mathematics and evolutionary biology. His research focuses on social behavior and combines approaches from theoretical biology, statistics, and evolutionary game theory to understand ecological and evolutionary dynamics of intertwined systems. His primary focus is on biological complexity, and he has worked in evolution of cooperation in many-player social dilemmas, as well as inferring social dynamics in political bodies. Prior to his doctoral studies, Gavin earned his Bachelor’s in Mathematics from Harvard University with a secondary in Computer Science, and worked as a software engineer at Markforged, and as research assistant at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna.