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Moon Duchin
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Event Series
Academic Year(s) of Visit
2018 - 2019
Current Institution
Tufts University
Moon Duchin is Associate Professor of Mathematics and senior fellow in the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. Her mathematical specialties are geometric group theory, geometric topology, and dynamics. For the last few years, she has been working on mathematical and computational interventions in redistricting. In 2018, she was the consulting expert for Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf in that state's court-mandated redistricting process. She has also a brief by mathematicians and law scholars for the Supreme Court in their North Carolina gerrymandering case.
Associate Professor Moon Duchin has given a Public Lecture for the Stanford MRC: Political Thicket, Mathematical Quagmire: How voting is and is not a math problem (2019)