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Twenty-Third Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture

November 8 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Twenty-Third Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture
Friday, November 8, at 3:30 p.m.
Cheray 101
Speaker: Stanley Chang, Professor of Mathematics, Wellesley College
Title: Voting Systems and the Illusion of Fairness
The variation of voting systems used across the world emerges from Arrow’s Theorem, which states that any voting scheme in plurality contests must violate some axiom of fairness. In this talk, we will discuss the mathematical underpinnings of various types of election structures used in democratic systems today.