Homepage of Martijn Tennekes

 
Drs. M. Tennekes
Maastricht University
Department of Mathematics
http://www.unimaas.nl/mcns

 

P.O. Box 616

6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands

Phone: 043-3883481

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Let me introduce myself. I am Martijn Tennekes, born in 1981, and currently working on a PhD project at Maastricht University. The topic of my thesis will be Network Formation Games.

I study models where individual agents are able to link up with each other. Here, I mainly focus on the existence of stable networks (called Nash networks), and the convergence of the dynamic process of adding, removing and replacing links. Applications of these models can be found in the study of social and economic structures. This PhD research is joint work with Jean Derks, Jeroen Kuipers and Frank Thuijsman.

 

Mathematical areas of interest: (non)-cooperative game theory, combinatorial optimization and graph theory.

 

In the first two years as PhD student, I followed courses at the LNMB (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde), and therefore received an LNMB certificate.

Attended conferences:

SING I, II and III (Maastricht, Foggia and Madrid respectively).

Lunteren LNMB conferences in 2005, 2006 and 2007

Games 2008, Evanston, USA (presentation)

Publications:

Existence of one-way flow Nash networks in the one-way flow model of network formation, forthcoming in Economic Theory, 2008, J. Derks, J. Kuipers, M. Tennekes and F. Thuijsman

A note on the existence of Nash networks in one-way flow models, forthcoming in Neogy S. K. et al. (eds.), Modeling, Computation and Optimization, World Scientic.2008, J. Derks and M. Tennekes

Working papers:

Local dynamics in network formation,  2008, J. Derks, J. Kuipers, M. Tennekes and F. Thuijsman

An axiomatic approach covering the two-way flow model of network formation, 2008, J. Derks and M. Tennekes

Payoff functions in the one-way flow model of network formation for which Nash networks exist, 2007, J. Derks and M. Tennekes

Other interests:

My main hobbies are guitar playing and sports, mainly cycling and running.