Constantinos Daskalakis

About Me

There would be a picture here, if you could see it blindy ;)

I'm a fourth-year theory student here, at Berkeley. I'm interested in game theory, computational biology and applied probability.

I did my undergraduate studies in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Recent:

I received the Microsoft Research Fellowship in Honor of Dean A. Richard Newton.

I was in the program committee of SODA 2008.

I'm graduating in May 2008 and I'm applying for academic positions for Fall 2008.

Link to academic work.

The Satrapy

What a misfortune, although you are made
for fine and great works
this unjust fate of yours always
denies you encouragement and success;
that base customs should block you;
and pettiness and indifference.
And how terrible the day when you yield
(the day when you give up and yield),
and you leave on foot for Susa,
and you go to the monarch Artaxerxes
who favorably places you in his court,
and offers you satrapies and the like.
And you accept them with despair
these things that you do not want.
Your soul seeks other things, weeps for other things;
the praise of the public and the Sophists,
the hard-won and inestimable Well Done;
the Agora, the Theater, and the Laurels.
How can Artaxerxes give you these,
where will you find these in a satrapy;
and what life can you live without these.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1910)

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