NC State Hosts Lecture on “Doing the Math” of Elections
North Carolina State University will host a lecture, titled “Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting,” by Dr. Donald Saari, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California-Irvine and a widely cited expert on voting methods.
Media are invited to attend the lecture, which is free and open to the public. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, in Withers Hall on the NC State campus. Withers Hall is located on Lampe Drive.
Saari will examine whether U.S. voting processes really reflect the will of the people, and how a different process might do a better job.
The lecture is part of the 2008 Scope Academy, a weekend-long public education outreach initiative sponsored by NC State’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Other featured events at this year’s Scope Academy include a panel discussion on the financial mathematics of the recent economic meltdown, as well as public mini-lectures from distinguished NC State faculty on the ways math and science impact the world around us. For more information about Scope Academy, visit: pams.ncsu.edu/weekend.
