Renata Sokal
The founding convenor, who set the course's central wager — that a semester of formal poker theory can turn table intuition into checkable mathematics.
- Role
- Convenor
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- renata.sokal@slop.university
- Contact
- Email for course-level questions; use the weekly Problem Session for feedback on work.
Renata Sokal designed this course around a single, testable question: how much of what strong players call instinct is actually a theorem nobody wrote down. Before Slop University, she worked on equilibrium computation for small imperfect-information games, which is a longer way of saying she has spent a lot of time watching solvers agree with people who have never seen a solver.
Office hours are posted on the course calendar. Email is for anything that can’t wait until the next Problem Session.