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Recent Posts
- Meet the AMS Committee on Education October 17, 2019
- What you missed over the summer: balancing openness in science with threats to security by foreign researchers September 23, 2019
- Gerrymandering and math in the era of state reform September 4, 2019
- Some fun and interesting summer reading: A brief history of the National Science Foundation August 14, 2019
- Addressing Threats and Vulnerabilities in Critical Interconnected Systems: Common Principles in Disease Outbreaks, Internet Malware, and Bank Failures July 16, 2019
Tag Archives: Redistricting
Gerrymandering and math in the era of state reform
Editor’s note: Hope Johnson is a data scientist at the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, where she is on a team developing OpenPrecincts, a database of precinct and electoral data to help citizens participate fully in redistricting. Hope graduated from Macalester College … Continue reading
Posted in Redistricting, Science Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged gerrymandering, Redistricting
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The election outcome and what it means for mathematicians
This post contains three parts: a long section on the newly elected members of Congress and the potential committee shake-ups that will affect the NSF and other science agencies; a shorter section on redistricting legislation that passed on November … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, National Science Foundation, Redistricting
Tagged Congress, Redistricting
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Voting Rights Data Institute for Students
Editor’s Notes: (1) Democracy counts on voters voting; please vote on November 6! (2) This post is written by three undergraduates who spent much of their summer working on gerrymandering. I invited them to share their experiences applying their … Continue reading
Posted in Broadening particpation in STEM, Higher Education, Redistricting
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The Supreme Court has decided on gerrymandering, what does it mean for the math & stats community?
What is going on with the Supreme Court vis-à-vis gerrymandering? The Supreme Court justices are busy finishing up their current term and the past weeks have seen decisions handed down on gerrymandering cases. To get you up to speed, the court … Continue reading
Posted in Redistricting, Supreme Court
Tagged gerrymandering, Redistricting, Supreme Court
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The AMS & Gerrymandering
The 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings were fantastic. One of my favorite talks was — surprise, surprise — the fabulous Saturday afternoon MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture, given by Tufts University professor Moon Duchin on Political Geometry: Voting Districts, … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Mathematicians, Redistricting
Tagged gerrymandering, Redistricting
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Redistricting on my mind
My past few weeks have been filled with thoughts of redistricting – I gave a talk at MAA MathFest titled “Ready for redistricting 2020?” and, then, spent an exhilarating week at Tufts at the Geometry of Redistricting Workshop. This workshop was … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematicians, Redistricting, Supreme Court
Tagged Applied math, gerrymandering, Mathematics, Redistricting, Supreme Court
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