OK, I am back on the wagon. I need to come up with a title and a one-sentence description for the REU advertisement. They want these and a longer description by December 1. I will try to write it out here and then see how it looks. If you like it I will just turn it in and be done with this part of the work.
For a title I am thinking of something like “Mechanism Design for School Choice”. It is short and contains enough information. The other projects all have three or four words in their titles so I think this is about right in terms of length. But perhaps “Game Theory and School Choice” may be more attractive? What do you think? Most students will not know what mechanism design is but almost everyone has heard of game theory…
To find a one-sentence description I did just check out our abstract page and realized that we have not updated it to include our new direction. Anyways here is an attempt: “We will use tools from mechanism design, a subbranch of game theory, to study various school choice mechanisms and investigate possible ways to improve upon formulas used by most school districts today.”
For the longer description I will need some more time perhaps. This is it for today. I will have to come back here to see if you approve.
