Next Bridges Lecture, Mathematics and Democracy, FRIDAY Feb 27

[Benoit Charbonneau]

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Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7:30 p.m, | Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University
FREE ADMISSION | FREE PARKING | PUBLIC LECTURE | FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION

Speakers: Steven J. Brams, New York University (Department of Politics)
D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfred Laurier University (Department of Mathematics)

Moderator: Douglas Peers, Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo

 Mathematics and Democracy
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.

Speakers:
[cid:2DA384EB-F087-438C-A155-5DCB22400F73 at lan] Steven J. Brams (Politics)<http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/stevenbrams>
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 Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds (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 Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (1998-99).





[cid:ECCA9F22-9E03-4F32-8B6B-27B1D5404551 at lan] D. Marc Kilgour (Math)<http://legacy.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=138>

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 now President of the INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation.


Note: St. Jerome’s University is currently under way with our Campus Renewal Project; therefore, parking is not available at St. Jerome’s. Please feel welcome to park at St. Paul’s University College at 190 Westmount Road North, Waterloo.

COMING UP:

March 13, 2015: Dancing the Math of Complex Systems, with Sarah Tolmie (English) and Dawn Cassandra Parker (Complex Systems)

For more information regarding the Bridge Lecture Series:           http://sju.ca/bridges


Contact Information: CON
TACT INFO
Benoit Charbonneau

Pure Mathematics

519-888-4567 x37336

benoit.charbonneau at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:benoit.charbonneau at uwaterloo.ca>
Alysia Kolentsis

St Jerome's University

519-884-8110 x28280

amkolentsis at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:amkolentsis at uwaterloo.ca>


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