Poster Session Recap – “Social Choice: Theory and Computation” Conference

IMD’s Social Choice: Theory and Computation conference convened a poster session on Voting, Representation, and Districting, where presenters shared innovative research by 45 scholars from over 20 institutions. See below for information about the posters and hyperlinks to each:

• Redistricting Reform for Los Angeles City Council: A Random Walk Through Alternatives – Ainslee Archibald, Sarah Cannon, Gabriel Dalton, Nicole David, Armine Kardashyan, Catherine Ma
• The moderate voter’s curse: Ideologies and abstention in a rational voting model – Ákos Miklós Balázs
• Preference-Sensitive Power and the Power-of-Numbers – Theodore Becker-Jacob
• Tracing Electoral Volatility through Poset-Based Möbius Inversion – Boston Bulis, Erik Hill, Brandon Wu
• A Better Way to Predict: Prediction of Ranked Choice Voting Winners Through Historical Voting Tendencies – Doğa Diren & Amélie Marian
• Near-Optimal Dropout-Robust Sortition – Maya Gambhir, Bailey Flanigan, Aaron Roth
• Metric Distortion Under Probabilistic Voting – Mohak Goyal and Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar
• Strategyproof Voting under Correlated Beliefs – Daniel Halpern, Rachel Li, Ariel D. Procaccia
• Mediation, Splitting and Shellability in Political Structures Modeled by Simplicial Complexes – Duško Jojić and Franjo Šarčević
• The Marked Edge Walk: A Novel MCMC Algorithm for Sampling Graph Partitions – Atticus McWhorter and Daryl DeFord
• Simulating Single Transferable Voting for the Colorado House of Representatives – Nora Nelson Laird, Iris Pixler, Katherine Rodbell, Dr. Beth Malmskog
• Extending the Bradley–Terry Model: Slates, Statistics, and Sampling – Phousawanh Peaungvongpakdy
• Metritocracy: Representative Metrics for Lite Benchmarks – Ariel Procaccia, Ben Schiffer, Serena Lutong Wang, Shirley Zhang
• Clone-Robust AI Alignment – Ariel Procaccia, Ben Schiffer, Shirley Zhang
• Does Representation Guarantee Welfare? – Jakob de Raaij, Alexandros Psomas, Ariel D. Procaccia
• Quantitative Relaxations of Arrow’s Axioms – Suvadip Sana, Peter Rock, Martin T. Wells, Moon Duchin
• Comparison of Precinct & District Level Voting Patterns using Persistent Homology to Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina – Ananya Shah
• Multiwinner Voting with Interval Preferences under Incomplete Information – Drew Springham, Edith Elkind, Bart de Keijzer, Maria Polukarov