2021 I. E. Block Community Lecture: Jonathan Christopher Mattingly
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2021 I. E. Block Community Lecture: Jonathan Christopher Mattingly
Dr. Jonathan Christopher Mattingly of Duke University presented a talk titled 'Can You Hear the Will of the People in the Vote? Assessing Fairness in Redistricting via Monte Carlo Sampling' during the 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting on July 20, 2021.
The U.S. political system chooses representatives to localized geographic districts and every 10 years, the Census counts the population, requiring new districts. Gerrymandering is the harnessing of this administrative process for partisan political gain. The release of the new Census numbers in 2021 has again moved redistricting into the national consciousness. Society is confronted with the need to create and evaluate districting maps. In this talk, Dr. Mattingly explores the following questions: Can we recognize gerrymandering when we see it? Is proportionality relevant? What is fair? How does the geopolitical geometry inform these answers? What is the effect of incumbency protection or the Voting Rights Act, or more generally, the preservation of communities of interest?
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