Structural Democracy Seminar

The Data and Democracy Lab (AKA MGGG) hosts a weekly zoom-based seminar on Topics in Structural Democracy. Favorite topics include social choice, computational redistricting, spanning-tree sampling methods, and the mathematics of rankings.

Recent speakers include

2024

Kris Tapp, Pras Ramakrishnan, Jeanne Clelland, Maggie Penn, Romans Pancs, David McCune, Chris Donnay, Moon Duchin, Daryl DeFord, Wes Holliday, Johan Ugander, Jon Kleinberg

2023

Paul Goelz, Chris Kenny, Austin Buchanan and Maral Shahmizad, Ariel Procaccia, Bailey Flanigan, Hans Gaebler and Hamed Nilforoshan, Vince Conitzer, Brian Brubach, Samuel Baltz, Jon Eguia, Sarah Cannon

2022

Wes Pegden, Soledad Villar and Ranthony Clark, Tara Abrishami, James Murphy, Chris Warshaw, Hugo Akitaya, Gerdus Benade, Zach Schutzman, June Vuong, Dylan Thurston, Daryl DeFord, Nikhil Garg and Wes Gurnee, Cory McCartan, Thomas Weighill

To sign up

Email sd-seminar@mggg.org to be added to the Slack workspace for the seminar.