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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(79, 98, 40);">Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7:30 p.m, | Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span lang="EN-US">D. Marc Kilgour</span></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US">, Wilfred Laurier University (</span></i><i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Department
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Moderator: </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">Douglas Peers, Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(79, 98, 40);">Mathematics and Democracy</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(79, 98, 40);"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">A multitude of election systems have been proposed for choosing both single winners (for mayor, governor, or president) or multiple winners (to a council or committee). Those based on approval voting, which
allows voters to vote for more than one candidate or party, are especially appealing. We look at the mathematics behind these systems, and how well they satisfy properties considered important in a democracy. We also analyze the usage of approval voting in
electing, among other officials, Catholic popes and UN secretaries general. More recently, approval voting has been adopted by several major professional societies to elect their presidents and advisory councils. Based on this experience, we offer several
recommendations for the use of approval voting in public elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-weight: normal;">Steven J. Brams is Professor of Politics at New York University and the author, co-author, or co-editor of 18 books and about 300
articles. His most recent book is <i>Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds</i> (MIT, 2011). Brams has applied game theory and social-choice theory to voting and elections, bargaining and fairness, international relations, and the Bible, theology,
and literature. He is a former president of the Peace Science Society (1990-91) and of the Public Choice Society (2004-2006). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986), a Guggenheim Fellow (1986-87), and was a Visiting
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">D. Marc Kilgour is Professor of Mathematics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Research Director: Conflict Analysis for the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, and Adjunct Professor
of Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo. His publications include 6 books and nearly 400 articles in journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. Kilgour’s research lies at the intersection of mathematics, engineering, and social science.
He has contributed in arms control, environmental management, negotiation, arbitration, voting, fair division, and coalition formation, and pioneered decision support systems for strategic conflict. President of the Peace Science Society in 2012-13, he is
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(64, 81, 21);">COMING UP: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(64, 81, 21);">March 13, 2015: <i>Dancing the Math of Complex Systems</i>, with Sarah Tolmie (English) and Dawn Cassandra Parker (Complex Systems)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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