DIMACS Mini-Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Elections

June 18, 1999
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Bruno Simeone , La Sapienza University and DIMACS, bruno@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

  
Friday, June 18, 1999

9:00 - 9:30   Breakfast and Registration

9:30 - 9:35   Welcome and Greeting

9:35 - 10:25  Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University
              On the Median Procedure

10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:35 Steven Brams, New York University
              Voting Models: Explaining Practice and Recommending Reform

11:35 - 12:25 Peter Fishburn, AT&T Labs - Research
              Electoral axiomatics and combinatorics

12:30 - 1:30  Lunch

1:30 - 2:20   Michel Regenwetter, Duke University
              Probabilistic Models of Social Choice and Preference

2:20 - 3:10   Donald Saari, Northwestern University
              From Arrow's and Sen's Theorems to resolving all voting paradoxes

3:10 - 3:30   Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:20   Bruno Simeone, La Sapienza University and Rutgers University
              Discrete Optimization Methods for Electoral Systems

4:20 - 5:10   Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University
              Computational Complexity and Algorithmic Aspects in Voting Theory

5:10          Reception

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