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Oct
31
2025

Statistics and Data Science Seminar: "Trees against gerrymandering"

When: Friday, October 31, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT

Where: Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room – lower level, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: free

Contact: Kisa Kowal   (847) 491-3974
k-kowal@northwestern.edu

Group: Department of Statistics and Data Science

Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Trees against gerrymandering

Moon Duchin, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, University of Chicago

Abstract: Motivated by the study of political redistricting, many mathematicians have gotten interested in sampling algorithms for graph partitions.  (In this case the graph is a contact network of geographic units in a state.)  There has been quite a lot of recent progress developing spanning-tree methods to do the sampling, and I'll survey some of what is and is not known.  Bonus: I'll show you how this is being used in the current redistricting court cases in Texas!

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