{"id":7583,"date":"2019-02-25T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/mathematical-interventions-in-democracy\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:51:23","slug":"mathematical-interventions-in-democracy","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/mathematical-interventions-in-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical interventions in democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>This conference is part of the\u00a0<strong>MAST\u00a0Lecture Series\u00a0<\/strong>organised by the Mathematics Department of the University of Luxembourg with the support of the FNR.\u00a0The objective is to share the most recent developments of mathematics and their applications in the Luxembourg scientific community.<\/p><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p><p>Most countries of the world are divided up into administrative units\u2014regions, departments, cantons, states\u2014and into electoral units, such as districts or Luxembourg&rsquo;s circonscriptions. In the U.S., the districts must be re-drawn at <\/p><p>regular intervals, and the process is usually controlled by politicians. For instance Pennsylvania, with its 12.7 million people, needs a partition into 18 winner-take-all districts. The number of ways to do this is staggering, and the choices have a massive impact on democratic outcomes. I&rsquo;ll describe several years of work thinking about how geometry and computing can illuminate the dynamics of districting, at one point as a consultant for the governor of Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This conference is part of the\u00a0MAST\u00a0Lecture Series\u00a0organised by the Mathematics Department of the University of Luxembourg with the support of the FNR.\u00a0The objective is to share the most recent developments of mathematics and their applications in the Luxembourg scientific community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7584,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2019-03-19 16:30:00","event_end_date":"2019-03-19 18:00:00","event_speaker_name":"Moon Duchin","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg\r\nMaison du Savoir\r\nMSA 3.110","event_street":"2, avenue de l\u2019Universit\u00e9","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"L-4365","event_city":"Esch-sur-Alzette","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[315],"events-type":[],"organisation":[61,25,226],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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