Statistics and Data Science Seminar: "Trees against gerrymandering"

Name: Statistics and Data Science Seminar: "Trees against gerrymandering"
Start: 2025-10-31T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-31T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room – lower level

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

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

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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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