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Wednesday, 14 January 2026 Famnits' Excursion into the mathematical universe: The role of dice in world domination - a case study of Risk: the board game

You are invited to the 1st lecture in the series titled

"The role of dice in world domination - a case study of Risk: the board game"

which will take place on Wednesday, 21. January 2026 at 16.00, VP 3 lecture room, UP FAMNIT and ZOOM link.

Board games have been an integral part of human history across cultures and societies, and the theory and strategies of traditional games such as Chess and Go have long been studied and analyzed. In this talk, we explore the mathematical mechanics behind a much more recent — though a classic by modern standards — board game: Risk. We will showcase how game states can be represented and how transitions between these states can be described with the help of probability theory, more specifically, Markov chains.

Balázs Dávid received his PhD in computer science in 2018 at the University of Szeged, Hungary. His research areas include combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming and algorithm development, particularly in public transport and logistics. His main research interest is the modelling and optimization of problems that are motivated by real-life industrial application. He is currently an assistant professor at InnoRenew CoE, UP IAM and UP FAMNIT.