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		PDO: Mathematics and Fairness with Steven Brams

Description:		This workshop is part of the New York City-based Professional Development and Outreach (PDO) Group 2010-2011 course on "Mathematics and Fairness," sponsored by Math for America and the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute. Session description: Steven J. Brams is a game theorist and political scientist at the New York University department of politics. Brams is best known for using the techniques of game theory and public choice to research voting systems and fair division. He is one of the independent discoverers of approval voting. Also, he was a co-discoverer, with Alan Taylor of the first envy-free solution to the n-person cake cutting problem. Previous to the Brams-Taylor procedure, the cake cutting problem had been one of the most important open problems in contemporary mathematics. In 2006 with others he devised the surplus procedure, an optimal alternative to the ancient procedure of divide and choose.

When:		8/26/10 9:00 AM EDT

Duration:		6 Hours 30 Minutes

Location:		MfA office, 160 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, (Entrance on 21st St., by Starbucks) New York, NY, 10010, USA

Type:		General Public