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  1. Carbon Markets Informal Chat

    Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room, Online/Virtual
    Created on Nov 20, 2023 10:13 AM PST
  2. Graduate Students Seminar: An Axiomatic Characterization of Draft Rules

    Location: SLMath: Online/Virtual, Baker Board Room
    Speakers: Jacob Coreno (University of Melbourne)

    Drafts are sequential allocation procedures for distributing heterogeneous and indivisible objects among agents subject to some priority order (e.g., allocating players’ contract rights to teams in professional sports leagues). Agents report ordinal preferences over objects and bundles are partially ordered by pairwise comparison. We provide a simple characterization of draft rules: they are the only allocation rules which are respectful of a priority (RP), envy-free up to one object (EF1), non-wasteful (NW) and resource-monotonic (RM). RP and EF1 are crucial for competitive balance in sports leagues. We also prove three related impossibility theorems: (i) weak strategy-proofness (WSP) is incompatible with RP, EF1, and NW; (ii) WSP is incompatible with EF1 and (Pareto) efficiency (EFF); and (iii) when there are two agents, strategy-proofness (SP) is incompatible with EF1 and NW. However, draft rules satisfy the competitive-balance properties, RP and EF1, together with EFF and maxmin strategy-proofness. If agents may declare some objects unacceptable, then draft rules are characterized by RP, EF1, NW, and RM, in conjunction with individual rationality and truncation-invariance. In a model with variable populations, draft rules are characterized by EF1, EFF, and RM, together with (population) consistency, top-object consistency, and neutrality; in this setting, the priority emerges endogenously from the properties.

    Updated on Dec 05, 2023 10:11 AM PST
  3. Redistricting Working Group

    Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room, Online/Virtual
    Created on Sep 13, 2023 11:12 AM PDT
  4. Carbon Markets Informal Chat

    Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room, Online/Virtual
    Created on Nov 20, 2023 10:13 AM PST
  5. Social Choice Seminar

    Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room
    Created on Sep 12, 2023 08:09 AM PDT
  6. Fair Machine Learning Seminar

    Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room
    Created on Sep 20, 2023 08:18 AM PDT
  7. Network Science Lunch

    Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room, Online/Virtual
    Created on Nov 15, 2023 09:23 AM PST
  1. ADJOINT 2024

    ADJOINT is a yearlong program that provides opportunities for U.S. mathematicians – especially those from the African Diaspora – to conduct collaborative research on topics at the forefront of mathematical and statistical research. Participants will spend two weeks taking part in an intensive collaborative summer session at SLMath (formerly MSRI). The two-week summer session for ADJOINT 2024 will take place June 24 to July 5, 2024 in Berkeley, California. Researchers can participate in either of the following ways: (1) joining ADJOINT small groups under the guidance of some of the nation's foremost mathematicians and statisticians to expand their research portfolio into new areas, or (2) applying to Self-ADJOINT as part of an existing or newly-formed independent research group to work on a new or established research project. Throughout the following academic year, the program provides conference and travel support to increase opportunities for collaboration, maximize researcher visibility, and engender a sense of community among participants. 

    Updated on Oct 02, 2023 11:15 AM PDT

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