Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences

Summer Workshop 2016

18th-20th February 2016, Auckland, New Zealand

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The Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences is pleased to announce that its 7th Summer Workshop will be held at the University of Auckland on 18-20 of February 2016.

The CMSS is an inter-disciplinary research centre whose members include mathematicians, computer scientists, philosophers and economists. Information on the CMSS, and details of previous Workshops, can be found on our website.

Topics include:

  • multi-winner voting rules
  • stochastic choice
  • complexity in social choice and political science
  • proportional representation
  • comparative analysis of existing electoral systems
  • experiments in political science and social choice

Contributions on other topics related to computational social science are also very welcome.

The Workshop will include tutorials on:

  • Basics of experimental research in economics (Valery Pavlov, University of Auckland)
  • PREFLIB: An online library for preferences (Nick Mattei, NICTA, Australia)

The Workshop will be concluded with a discussion panel on the role of exact sciences and experimental methods in social choice and political science, chaired by Keith Dowding (Australian National University).

Invited speakers


Pavlo Blavatskyy

Murdoch University, Perth

Damon Centola

University of Pennsylvania

Piotr Faliszewski

AGH Krakow Institute of Technology

Simon Grant

Australian National University

Bernard N. Grofman

University of California, Irvine

Jean-Francois Laslier

Paris School of Economics

Rolf Niedermeier

Technical University of Berlin

Charles R. Plott

California Institute of Technology

Organising Committee


Registration


Registration for the workshop is now closed. If you still wish to attend the Workshop, please contact the organisers directly.

Location

Talks will be held at the University of Auckland City Campus in Old Government House.

Download a PDF map of the city campus.

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Travel and Accommodation


Getting here:

The University of Auckland campus is located near the centre of Auckland city. It is approximately a 45 minute drive from the airport to the university.

A taxi from the airport to the city centre costs around $70. A shuttle costs around $30 and the airbus costs $16.

Some popular hotels and serviced apartments in the vicinity of campus are listed below:

Thanks to our generous sponsors:

  • The Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand)
  • Department of Computer Science - University of Auckland
  • Department of Mathematics - University of Auckland
  • Department of Economics - University of Auckland
  • Department of Economics - Auckland University of Technology