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SUMMARY:Dustin G. Mixon (OSU)
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 >The Mathematics of Partisan Gerrymandering</a>\nby Dustin G. Mixon (OSU) 
 as part of LA Combinatorics and Complexity Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nEvery de
 cade\, politicians update voting districts to account for population shift
 s as measured by the U.S. Census. Of course\, partisan politicians are inc
 lined to draw maps that favor their own party\, resulting in partisan gerr
 ymandering. In this talk\, we will explore how tools from mathematics can 
 help to deter this growing threat to democracy.\n\nOur main result is that
  deciding whether there exists a fair redistricting among legal maps is <b
 >NP</b>-hard.  Joint work with Richard Kueng and Soledad Villar.\n
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