The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and Center for the Study of Democracy present  
 
"Conference on Voting Theory"  
 
Saturday, October 24, 2009  
9:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m.  
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112  
 
Featured talks include:  
"Problems in voting theory" - Donald Saari  
"Problems from a more pragmatic perspective" - Bernard Grofman  
"From finding where to picnic on an island to problems from psychology" - Louis Narens  
"Linear tests for uniformity and the problem of m alternatives and n judges" - Anna Bargagliotti  
"Studying voting for committees using wreath products" - Stephen Lee  
"Extending Condorcet's criterion and searching for forbidden words" - Jennifer Townsend  
"Orthogonal weighting vectors and Pascal's Triangle" - Michael Orrison  
"Decomposition behavior in aggregated data sets" - Karl-Dieter Crisman  
 
For the full schedule, please visit http://www.imbs.uci.edu/CONFERENCES/2009/AGENDA-October%2024%20conf%20on%20voting.pdf.  
 
This conference is free and open to the public.  
 
For further questions, please contact Janet Phelps, jjphelps@uci.edu.