Mathematics of Politics (Schedule)

Mathematics of Politics

April 22 - 23, 2014

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
9:00 - 9:45	Don Saari (University of California, Irvine (UCI)) Using mathematics to structure laws
10:05 - 10:50	Lynn Vavreck (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) Myth-Busters: Game Changers and Big Data In Presidential Campaigns
11:10 - 11:55	Rafail Ostrovsky (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) War on Terror vs. Individual Privacy
1:30 - 2:15	Martin Hellman (Stanford University) Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence
4:00 - 4:45	Jerry McNerney (Representative (D-CA 9th District)) Public Lecture: How election campaigns are run and the future of math in politics
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
9:00 - 9:45	Vwani Roychowdhury (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) Political Dynamics in Large Scale online Data Sets: Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling
10:05 - 10:50	Solomon Messing (Facebook) How Online Social Networks Amplify Political Rhetoric and Engage the Public
11:10 - 11:55	Charles R. Plott (California Institute of Technology) Committee Karate: Axiomatic Social Choice Theory and the Design of Procedures to Manipulate Groups
1:30 - 2:15	Roja Bandari (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) Political Dynamics in Large Scale online Data Sets: A Study of Content-Oriented User Behavior