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Philip LaPorte

mathematics phd candidate, uc berkeley

I am a third-year graduate student at UC Berkeley, co-advised by Steven Evans and Martin Nowak (Harvard). I am interested in the mathematics of evolution, especially evolutionary game theory and social behavior. Recently I have been working on repeated games and direct reciprocity. I am very grateful to be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. As an undergraduate, I studied math at Harvard with interests in geometry and topology.

education

Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics

UC Berkeley

2022-present

A.B. Mathematics

Harvard College

2018 - 2022

publications

A geometric process of evolutionary game dynamics

(2023) Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  PL and MA Nowak

Adaptive dynamics of memory-1 strategies in the repeated donation game

(2023) PLOS Computational Biology.  PL, C Hilbe and MA Nowak

talks and presentations

Strategic complexity in stochastic games

(2025) AMS New England Graduate Student Conference

Cooperation in direct reciprocity

(2024) Fu Lab, Dartmouth Mathematics Dept

How to exploit majority rule - the McKelvey chaos theorem

(2023) Many Cheerful Facts seminar, UC Berkeley Mathematics Dept