2019 Festival: The Mathematics of Social Choice (3:15pm showing)
Saturday May 4, 2019 from 3:15pm - 4:00pm ET
This talk will explore the paradoxes and possibilities of the mathematics of voting, which seeks to answer, among other questions: If more than two candidates run for office, by what procedure should the winner be chosen to most equitably reflect voter intent? We’ll explore a famous impossibility theorem of Arrow and put the theory into practice by considering the effects various algorithms would have had on real federal, state, and local elections around the country.
This presentation repeats the session taking place from 11:30am – 12:15pm.
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Room 202b, Level 2, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Age Level
14-18
18+
PRESENTED BY:
Dr. Emily Riehl
Dr. Emily Riehl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her research, supported by the National Science Foundation, is on “abstract nonsense” (specifically ∞-dimensional category theory) and homotopy theory, the algebra of “continuous deformations” between mathematical objects. She fell in love with Australian Rules... Learn more