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Philip LaPorte

mathematics phd candidate, uc berkeley

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

education

Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics

UC Berkeley

2022-present

A.B. Mathematics

Harvard College

2018 - 2022

publications

From simultaneous to asynchronous play in direct reciprocity

(in revision at PNAS Nexus)  PL, L Pracher and S Pal

Complete strategy spaces of direct reciprocity

(in revision at PNAS)  PL, C Hilbe, NE Glynatsi and MA Nowak

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

Factored strategies in stochastic games

(2025) UC Berkeley Probability Seminar

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