BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68319fa2dbd62 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210205T153000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210205T153000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/tutte-colloq uium-elchanan-mossel SUMMARY:Tutte Colloquium - Elchanan Mossel CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: Probabilistic Aspects of Voting\, Intransit ivity\, and\nManipulation\n\nSpeaker:\n Elchanan Mossel\n\nAffliation:\n M IT Mathematics\n\nZoom:\n Please email Emma Watson\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nMarqui s de Condorcet\, a French philosopher\, mathematician\, and\npolitical sci entist\, studied mathematical aspects of voting in the\neighteenth century . Condorcet was interested in studying voting rules\nas procedures for agg regating noisy signals and in the paradoxical\nnature of ranking  3 or mo re alternatives. We will begin with a quick\nsurvey of some of the main ma thematical models\, tools\, and results in\nthis theory and discuss some r ecent progress in the area. \n DTSTAMP:20250524T102954Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR