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SUMMARY:Skip Garibaldi (Center for Communications Research\, La Jolla)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: Uncovering Lottery Shenanigans\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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SUMMARY:Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: A Virtual ICERM Public Lecture: Quantifying and Understanding Gerrymande
ring - How a quest to understand his state's political geography led a mat
hematician to court\nby Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University) as part o
f Public Lecture: Uncovering Lottery Shenanigans\n\nAbstract: TBA\n
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