Monday, 9 February 2026 The video of the first FAMNIT excursion into the mathematical universe is now available

The 1st lecture in the series titled ‘The Role of Dice in World Domination – A Case Study of Risk: The Board Game was delivered by Balázs Dávid.

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 explored the mathematical mechanics behind a much more recent — though a classic by modern standards — board game: Risk. We showcased 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.