Speaker
Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University)
Date
Thu March 8th 2018, 4:30pm
Event Sponsor
MRC, Stanford department of Mathematics
Location
Building 200 Room 002
MRC Event Series
In October 2017, I found myself testifying for hours in a federal court. I had not been arrested. Rather, I was attempting to quantify gerrymandering using analysis which grew from asking whether a surprising 2012 election was indeed surprising. It hinged on probing the geopolitical structure of North Carolina using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm. I will start at the beginning and describe the mathematical ideas involved in our analysis. The talk will be accessible to undergraduates. In fact, this project began as a sequence of undergraduate research projects and undergraduates continue to be involved to this day.
You can learn more about Professor Jonathan Mattingly at https://math.duke.edu/people/jonathan-christopher-mattingly
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