Mathematics of Voting and Representation Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland
In June 2024, IMD co-organized a weeklong workshop on Mathematics of Voting and Representation, held in Edinburgh, Scotland. The presentations were centered on three themes: social choice, proportional representation, and districting. The list of talks can be found below, with presenters’ slides linked when available.
- Proportional Representation Beyond Elections– Markus Brill, University of Warwick
- Understanding Districting via Random Sampling- Sarah Cannon, Claremont McKenna College
- Short presentations on computational tools in voting, representation, and related fields- Jeanne Cleland, Moon Duchin, Ulle Endriss, David McCune
- Local Walks on Trees and Evaluating Non-Partisan Tradeoffs in Redistricting- Daryl DeFord, Washington State University
- On the price of diversity for multi-winner elections under (weakly) separable scoring rules- Mostapha Diss, University of Franche-Comte
- Preferences and Proportionality- Moon Duchin, Cornell University
- An Adaptive and Verifiably Proportional Method for Participatory Budgeting- Edith Elkind, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute
- Automated Reasoning for Social Choice Theory– Ulle Endriss, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
- Anomalies and Manipulation in Scottish Single Transferable Vote Elections– Adam Graham-Squire, High Point University
- An Analysis of the Styrian Parliamentary Elections in 2015 and 2019 Using Different (Theoretical) Approaches– Christian Klamler, University of Graz
- Colorado: An Ensemble Analysis Case Study- Beth Malmskog, Colorado College
- A Resolution of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem– Eric Maskin, Harvard University
- PR and FPTP as systems of representation and AI- Anthony McGann, University of Strathclyde
- Fair Mixing and Participatory Democracy– Hervé Moulin, University of Glasgow
- Composition of the European Parliament– Friedrich Pukelsheim, University of Augsburg
- Ballot Clustering Algorithms– Kris Tapp, St. Joseph’s University
- Ranking rankings: Forming preferences on others based on others’ preferences on us, and applications in social choice– Zoi Terzopoulou, Saint-Etienne School of Economics
- Analyzing metrics to detect gerrymandering via short bursts– Ellen Veomett, University of San Francisco
Thank you to all of the co-organizers, presenters, and attendees for making this workshop such a wonderful opportunity for collaboration among scholars from different regions and academic disciplines.
