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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
March 13-15, 2020 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1155

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Special Session on The Mathematics of Redistricting

Friday March 13, 2020, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Redistricting, I
Room 242, Nau Hall
Organizers:
Marion Campisi, San Jose State University marion.campisi@sjsu.edu
Thomas Ratliff, Wheaton College
Ellen Veomett, Saint Mary's College of California
- 2:00 p.m.
  Clustering and Expected Seat-Share for District Maps.
  Kristopher Tapp*, Saint Joseph's University
  (1155-91-8)
- 2:30 p.m.
  District compactness in the ReCom sampling method.
  Jeanne Clelland*, University of Colorado, Bouder
  Nicholas Bossenbroek, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Thomas Heckmaster, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Adam Nelson, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Peter Rock, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Jade VanAusdall, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (1155-05-246)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Advances in Sampling Techniques for Planar Graph Partitions.
  Gregory J Herschlag*, Duke University
  Jonathan C Mattingly, Duke University
  (1155-60-292)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Multiresolution Redistricting and Municipality Preservation.
  Daryl R DeFord*, MIT - CSAIL
  (1155-05-48)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Imposing contiguity constraints in political districting models.
  Hamidreza Validi, Oklahoma State University
  Austin Buchanan*, Oklahoma State University
  Eugene Lykhovyd, Texas A&M University
  (1155-90-30)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Topology of Redistricting.
  Moon Duchin, Tufts University
  Tom Needham, Florida State University
  Thomas Weighill*, Tufts University
  (1155-68-91)

Saturday March 14, 2020, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Redistricting, II
Room 242, Nau Hall
Organizers:
Marion Campisi, San Jose State University marion.campisi@sjsu.edu
Thomas Ratliff, Wheaton College
Ellen Veomett, Saint Mary's College of California
- 8:30 a.m.
  Finding the Baseline: A Colorado Case Study in Ensemble Analysis.
  Haley Colgate, Colorado College
  Beth Malmskog*, Colorado College
  (1155-91-605)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Math, Geography, and Districting: Using Topological Data Analysis to Assess Voting Districts.
  Courtney M Thatcher*, University of Puget Sound
  (1155-54-421)
- 9:30 a.m.
  TALK CANCELED: Will math and data ever completely remove humans from the redistricting equation?
  Hannah E Wheelen*, Princeton University
  (1155-00-370)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Panel Discussion - What happens now that partisan gerrymandering has been ruled to be nonjusticiable in federal courts?
  Ellen Veomett*, Saint Mary's College of California
  Karen Saxe, American Mathematical Society
  Gowri Ramachandran, Southwestern Law School
  Andrew Chin, University of North Carolina School of Law
  (1155-00-393)

Saturday March 14, 2020, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Redistricting, III
Room 242, Nau Hall
Organizers:
Marion Campisi, San Jose State University marion.campisi@sjsu.edu
Thomas Ratliff, Wheaton College
Ellen Veomett, Saint Mary's College of California
- 3:00 p.m.
  Gerrymandering as Jerk: Measuring Partisan Fairness Using an Interpolation Function in Indexed Vote Share Space.
  Benjamin Plener Cover*, University of Idaho College of Law
  (1155-00-462)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Evaluating Geometric Methods of Distance as Tools to Determine Racial Imbalance.
  Maira Khan*, Harvard University
  (1155-00-368)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Partisan Dislocation: A Local Measure of District Naturalness and Gerrymandering.
  Daryl Deford, MIT CSAIL - Geometric Data Processing Group
  Nicholas Eubank*, Duke University
  Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University
  (1155-91-195)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Simulated Packing and Cracking.
  Jeffrey S. Buzas, University of Vermont
  Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
  (1155-91-354)

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