Ismar Volic, Wellesley College (Pi Mu Epsilon lecture)
The Shape of Democracy: Topological Methods in Social Choice Theory
Date:
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4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
In recent years, mathematicians have applied sophisticated techniques to shed new light on practices like voting, districting, and apportionment of legislative seats, providing novel points of view on which of them work well and which do not. …
