JMM 2023 Special Session on Foundations of Democracy – Presentation Slides
On January 5-6, 2023, IMD hosted a Special Session on the Foundations of Democracy at the 2023 JMM in Boston. This event featured 11 speakers who presented on a range of topics, from the mathematics of voting to gerrymandering detection. You can find the conference page here and the flyer here.
We are excited to share the slides from each speaker’s presentation. Below is the list of speakers with their presentation slides.
January 5, 2023:
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Eric Maskin, Harvard University: “A Resolution of the Arrow Impossibility Theorem“
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David McCune, William Jewell College: “How frequently do monotonicity anomalies occur in real-world ranked choice elections?“
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Rick Klima, Appalachian State University: “Arrow’s Actual Impossibility Theorem“
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Anson Kahng, University of Rochester: “DemocraCS: Computational Perspectives on Democracy“
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Mark Wilson, University of Massachusetts Amherst: “Swing models“
January 6, 2023:
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Nikhil Garg, Cornell Tech: “Combatting Gerrymandering with Social Choice: the Design of Multi-member Districts“
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Beth Malmskog, Colorado College: “Colorado in Context: A Case Study in Math and Fair Redistricting in Colorado“
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Marion Campisi, San Jose State University: “The Geography and Election Outcome (GEO) Metric: an Introduction“
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Daryl R. DeFord, Washington State University: “An Invitation to Computational Redistricting“
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Ranthony A C Edmonds, The Ohio State University: “Quantifying Communities of Interest in Electoral Redistricting“
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Jeanne Nielsen Clelland, University of Colorado Boulder: “New ideas for evaluating incumbency protection in district plans“
