History of IMGTA

The first occasion in which Italian researchers met for a meeting centered on Game Theory dates back to 1983, thanks to the initiative of Gambarelli and Grillo. The 12th of October there was, in Bergamo, a working day on: "Un confronto tra economisti e matematici: recenti contributi della Teoria dei Giochi all'Economia" ("A discussion between economists and mathematicians: recent contributions from Game Theory to Economics"). 

One year later, Mori and Patrone organized in Pavia (December 14 and 15) the first meeting under the heading that was going to last for long time: "Convegno di teoria dei Giochi ed Applicazioni" (which was numbered as "second meeting" to acknowledge the relevance of the "working day" held in Bergamo). Invited speakers were Schwodiauer and Tijs.
Then came Florence, in 1986: it was in May, the 23 and 24th, organized by Battinelli and Guidi. In that occasion, the invited speakers were Bacharach and Selten. 
Then it was again Bergamo, in 1987 (main organizer: Gambarelli). Followed by: Cagliari 1988 (Battinelli), Modena 1989 (Ricci), Pisa 1992 (Costa), Genoa 1993 (Mignanego and Patrone), Siena 1995 (S. Vannucci), Bergamo (the 10th, again Gambarelli) 1996, Milan 1997 (Gilli and Polo), Genoa 1998 (jointly with Game Practice I, Patrone), Bologna 1999 (Agliardi). 

During this period it was created the "CITG" (Centro Interuniversitario per la Teoria dei Giochi e le sue Applicazioni/Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and Applications), under the initiative of the researchers in Pavia, Bergamo and Florence. The CITG was created (official birth date: December 31, 1990) with the partecipation of a dozen of Univerities, in Florence, and the first director was, for six years, Tani, followed by Dardi and Patrone. To celebrate this success, it was organized the "International Conference on Game Theory", in Florence, from 25 to 27 of June, 1991. 

Since in the meantime the Spanish meetings had started, the present director of the CITG, Patrone, took the initiative of looking for a "joint venture" between the Italian and Spanish meetings. An informal agreement, that just meant the alternance of Italian and Spanish meetings, was suggested at the Valencia meeting in 2000 and detailed better during GAMES 2000 in Bilbao. 
The meeting of Ischia 2001 was organized by Morgan having in mind this, and luckily saw a very good partecipation of Spanish researchers. Then the Sevilla meeting also came, and then will be Urbino, and then...