Harvey Mudd College (USA)

Fri, 19 Oct 2018
16:00

L1

Fair decisions: applying topology and combinatorics to social science problems (Jal Pavry lecture)

Francis Su

(Harvey Mudd College (USA))

Tue, 19 Nov 2013

14:30 - 15:30

L2

Set Intersections, Perfect Graphs, and Voting in Agreeable Societies

Francis Edward Su

(Harvey Mudd College (USA))

Abstract

We prove a generalization of Helly's theorem concerning intersections of convex sets that has an interesting voting theory interpretation. We then
consider various extensions in which compelling mathematical problems are motivated from very natural questions in the voting context.