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SUMMARY:Skip Garibaldi (Center for Communications Research\, La Jolla)
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 ">Uncovering Lottery Shenanigans</a>\nby Skip Garibaldi (Center for Commun
 ications Research\, La Jolla) as part of Public Lecture: Uncovering Lotter
 y Shenanigans\n\n\nAbstract\nIt is very rare to meet anyone who has won a 
 prize worth at least $600 or more in the lottery. (You could expect to buy
  thousands of scratcher tickets before winning such a prize.) Nonetheless\
 , when looking at publicly-available data\, we discovered that some indivi
 duals had won hundreds of these big prizes! That much success smelled fish
 y. We wondered: are they up to something? This talk will describe the data
  we saw\, what mathematics had to say about it\, and the legal and illegal
  schemes that on-the-ground investigations revealed.\n\nSkip Garibaldi is 
 Director of the Center for Communications Research\, La Jolla\, a division
  of the Institute for Defense Analyses\, a nonprofit research corporation.
  His academic research spans many areas\, from semisimple linear algebraic
  groups and their Galois cohomology to probability. He has held academic p
 ositions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)\, UCLA\
 , and at Emory University\, where he was Winship Distinguished Research Pr
 ofessor of Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Societ
 y and has talked about his work on national TV shows such as 20/20 and ABC
  World News. He has received Emory University's highest teaching award\, t
 he Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for expositi
 on\, and the Air Force Commander's Public Service Award.\n
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