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DESCRIPTION:There is a current societal interest in social choice theory (e
 .g. voting systems) motivated at least in part by the divisiveness apparen
 t in many countries. Can computer science and AI bring any insight into so
 me of the more prominent issues?     More specifically\, recent elections 
 in the US and Canada (and elsewhere)  have brought to prominence a couple 
 of issues\, Gerrymamdering and the role of primaries in voting.  (Voting g
 oes beyond political elections but political elections are the most newswo
 rthy.)As one can imagine\, there are complex modeling and computational is
 sues when dealing with large social and political systems.We have some pre
 liminary but we think interesting insights into gerrymandering (strategic 
 design of electoral districts) and primary systems. I will briefly talk ab
 out a work at IJCAI 2018 on gerrymandering and how the ``power of gerrymad
 ering'' relates to the degree of urbanization. I will mainly talk about th
 e issue of primaries vs direct elections as our work here is a blend of bo
 th theory and experimental work. Here is the basic question: What is the i
 mpact on the ``quality'' of our chosen leaders by having primaries where e
 ach party has its own election to choose their candidate for the general e
 lection? Does this tend to result in more extreme candidates?  In a paper 
 at AAAI 2019 paper on primaries\, we conduct the first quantitative study 
 of primary vs direct elections.Joint work with Omer Lev\, Nisarg Shah and 
 Tyrone Strangway
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LOCATION:DIAG - Via Ariosto 25\, Room B203
SUMMARY:Two quantitative studies concerning voting systems - Allan Borodin 
 (University of Toronto)
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