Speaker: Jonathan Christopher Mattingly
Abstract: 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 mathematical analysis. I was intrigued by the surprising result of the 2012 election, wondering if these results were really surprising. It hinged on probing the geopolitical structure of North Carolina using Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm. In this talk, I will describe the mathematical ideas involved in out analysis. The talk will be accessible and, hopefully, interesting to all, including undergraduates. In fact, this project began as a sequence of undergraduate research projects, which undergraduates continue to be involved with to this day.
When: Thu, April 11, 2019 - 4:00 pm
Where: John S. Toll Physics Building, 4150 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20740, USA Room 1412
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