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Advances in algorithms and hardware have enabled computers to design new materials atom-by-atom. However, in order for these computer-generated materials to truly address problems of societal importance, such as clean energy generation, it…

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Much of our understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms derives from analysis of low-dimensional models: with few interacting species, or few axes defining "fitness". It is not always clear to what extent the intuition derived…

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We study mechanism design when a designer repeatedly uses a fixed mechanism to interact with strategic agents who learn from observing their allocations. We introduce a static framework, calibrated mechanism design, requiring mechanisms to…

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