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WAS CANCELLED DUE TO HELENE.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Monday and Tuesday, October 7 and 8, 2024, the Department of Mathematics will welcome Dr. Moon Duchin as our 2024-25 Clanton Visiting Mathematician speaker.\u00a0 There will be a general-audience presentation on Monday in the evening and an afternoon colloquium talk on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Moon Duchin is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University where she is a member of both the mathematics department and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. She earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Women\u2019s Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. Her research work in theoretical mathematics focuses on geometric topology, geometric group theory, and dynamical systems. Her work has earned her a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Radcliffe Fellowship, and she is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.<\/p>\n In the past decade, Professor Duchin\u2019s research program has expanded to include applications of mathematics to the study of voting, gerrymandering, and democracy. Since 2017, Professor Duchin has been the principal investigator of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group Redistricting Lab, which researches data science interventions for civil rights. As a leader in this program, she has organized several international workshops on the topic, been invited to give a plenary address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in 2018 (which received a standing ovation), and served as an expert in redistricting litigation in several states, including South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. More recently, Professor Duchin has been working with local governments in Los Angeles and Portland on rank-choice voting projects. Her passion for applying mathematics to current civil rights issues has also permeated her teaching. She has taught (or co-taught) interdisciplinary courses at the intersection of mathematics, data science, public policy, and social justice. Professor Duchin is paving the way for a new breed of mathematician, where tools from theoretical mathematics and data science are applied to challenging social problems and mathematicians work to build a healthy discourse on these topics with students, the public, politicians, and each other.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU DON’T GERRYMANDER?<\/strong><\/p>\n Abstract:\u00a0 Gerrymandering is drawing district lines to get substantial advantage for some group over another group– it’s a feature of American politics since the term was coined in 1812, and still widely practiced today.\u00a0 One of the reasons it’s been so hard to root out is that it’s hard to identify when advantages come from careful arrangement of districts or when they’re just consequences of who lives where.\u00a0 The last decade has brought great scientific progress on approaching the centuries-old question at the heart of the topic:\u00a0 what does it look like when you DON’T gerrymander?<\/p>\n 8:00 p.m. <\/p>\n WEIRD DICE AND RANDOM TREES<\/strong><\/p>\n Abstract:\u00a0 Since the 1950s, mathematicians have known that it is possible to have a very surprising kind of objects:\u00a0 you can have three dice (called A,B,C) where A>B, B>C, and C>A each has a greater than even chance of occurring.\u00a0 I’ll explain some of the properties of weird dice, and I’ll connect them to a topic that has many applications:\u00a0 the selection of random spanning trees in a graph.<\/p>\n 4:00 p.m. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WAS CANCELLED DUE TO HELENE. 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MONDAY, OCTOBER 7<\/h3>\n
\nShall Hall of the Younts Conference Center<\/p>\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 8<\/h3>\n
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Afternoon Colloquium Talk<\/h3>\n
\nJohns Hall 101<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n