Mathematics of Politics - IPAM

Mathematics of Politics

April 22 - 23, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Don Saari (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Using mathematics to structure laws
09:50-10:05
Break
10:05-10:50
Lynn Vavreck (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Myth-Busters: Game Changers and Big Data In Presidential Campaigns
10:55-11:10
Break
11:10-11:55
Rafail Ostrovsky (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
War on Terror vs. Individual Privacy

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:15
Martin Hellman (Stanford University)
Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence
14:20-14:35
Break
14:35-15:30
Panel Discussion: Mark Green, Jacob Foster, Mark Handcock, Richard Yamada
15:30-16:00
Break/Walk to CNSI
16:00-16:45
Jerry McNerney (Representative (D-CA 9th District))
Public Lecture: How election campaigns are run and the future of math in politics
17:00-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:45
Vwani Roychowdhury (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Political Dynamics in Large Scale online Data Sets: Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling
09:50-10:05
Break
10:05-10:50
Solomon Messing (Facebook)
How Online Social Networks Amplify Political Rhetoric and Engage the Public
10:55-11:10
Break
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:15
Roja Bandari (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Political Dynamics in Large Scale online Data Sets: A Study of Content-Oriented User Behavior
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