Podcasts about moon duchin

Moon Duchin is a math professor at Cornell University whose theoretical work has practical applications for voting and democracy. Why is striving for fair elections so difficult?  SOURCE:Moon Duchin, professor of mathematics at Cornell University. RESOURCES:"Gerrymandering: The Origin Story," by Neely Tucker (Timeless: Stories from the Library of Congress, 2024)."Redistricting for Proportionality," by Gabe Schoenbach and Moon Duchin (The Forum, 2023)."The Atlas Of Redistricting," by Aaron Bycoffe, Ella Koeze, David Wasserman, and Julia Wolfe (FiveThirtyEight, 2018)."In a Comically Drawn Pennsylvania District, the Voters Are Not Amused," by Trip Gabriel (The New York Times, 2018). EXTRAS:"Why Are Boys and Men in Trouble?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024)."Is This the Future of High School?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2022).

An American mathematician is using maths and computer science to end the decades-old political tactic of gerrymandering. It's a practice used by both Republicans and Democrats in the US to manipulate electoral boundaries to influence elections and stay in power. It's sparked lengthy court challenges in districts where election outcomes have been unfairly skewed. Professor Moon Duchin from Tufts University heads up a research group which aims to make the voting system fairer by using geometry to redraw district boundaries. The civil rights advocate regularly appears as an expert in high profile legal cases involving gerrymandering and last year featured in the Netflix documentary A Trip to Infinity. She's in New Zealand to deliver a lecture at Auckland University, and joins Kathryn to explain how data science can be used to ensure a fairer system and bring about democratic reform.

If you live in the United States, have you already voted? If not, go vote! The bedrock of American democracy is the idea of citizens voting for candidates to represent their interests. However, determining how to cluster voters into districts has always been a fraught topic, particularly when it comes to ensuring that minorities have representation. How can we create the most fair electoral districts? How can we use geometric topographical analysis to recognize gerrymandering strategies like “packing” and “cracking”? We brought in Tufts University mathematician and founder of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group Redistricting Lab Moon Duchin to help us discuss these pressing issues. Find our transcript here: LINK Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links: Duchin’s collaboration about ranked choice voting: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3778021 Brief review of Duchin’s scientific paper: https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/evaluating-the-effects-of-ranked-choice-voting/the-future-is-proportional-improving-minority-representation-through-new-electoral-systems-gerdus-benade-ruth-buck-moon-duchin-dara-gold-and-thomas-weighill/ Quanta’s interview with Duchin: https://www.quantamagazine.org/moon-duchin-on-fair-voting-and-random-walks-20200407/ Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute Follow Moon Duchin: https://math.tufts.edu/people/faculty/moon-duchin This episode was audio engineered by Tyler Damme. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348.

Eminencias de las matemáticas, la física de partículas y la cosmología exploran el concepto del infinito y sus complejas implicaciones para el universo. Ve todo lo que quieras. Incluye entrevistas con Moon Duchin, Delilah Gates, Carlo Rovelli y Steven Strogatz.

Today we feature a vibrant conversation with Moon Duchin, Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University where she oversees the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group which focuses their research on data science interventions for civil rights. Moon earned her undergraduate degrees in mathematics and women's students from Harvard University and her masters and PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and she has been a Fellow of the American Matheamtical Society since 2017. In this conversation, you will hear about Moon's strategy to build the kind of community you want to be in, about how outreach energizes her, about her skill at working just about anywhere, and about how many of her favorite places in the world serve coffee.

Math & Computer Scientists Develop Tools to Prove Cheating in RedistrictingToday's LinksArticles:Washington Post - Can computer simulations help fix democracy?CNN - Redistricting in OhioKosuke Imai and Cory McCartan, Harvard University -  ``Sequential Monte Carlo for Sampling Balanced and Compact Redistricting Plans"Groups Taking Action:Princeton Gerrymandering Project ,  Moon Duchin & the Tufts University MGGG Lab, Dave's Redistricting App,  FairVote, League of Women Voters People Powered Fair Maps Project, Redistricting Data Hub's list of State Advocacy GroupsYou're listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping YOUR government by and for the people.As a listener to ADM, you know that redistricting voting districts happens every 10 years after a new census.   That redistricting can be fairly done, or can be manipulated for partisan gain, called gerrymandering.   But mathematicians and computer scientists now have tools to show to courts just how gerrymandered the districts actually are.An article in the Washington Post this week has an “explainer” on how & why gerrymandering gets done, but also shows how scientists are using the “Monte Carlo Principle” to prove to courts that maps were gerrymandered.  An unbiased computer draws thousands of map combinations then graphs the results. The graphs show where the actual real-world gerrymandered maps ranks vs. the computer-generated fair map combinations.   A Harvard research team of Kosuke Imai and Cory McCartan designed an algorithm used in Ohio's fight for fair maps.  Their tool was used to draw 5,000 maps and showed the Republican map wasn't even close to fair, which was a factor in convincing the judge to throw out the proposal.   Moon Duchin of Tufts University notes that generating larger samples of up to 100,000 comparison maps can give an even higher-level of certainty.In many states, citizens groups are using lower-tech open source mapping tools provided by Princeton University, a platform called Dave's Redistricting, and others to draw their own maps, to contrast to the partisan cheating occurring within their state's legislatures.   See the Post article and links to get involved in those groups at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org.For the American Democracy Minute, I'm Brian Beihl.

After 18 months we're BACK! The response for last week's 'Sleep: The Silent Epidemic' episode has been fantastic - so very glad it has proved popular amongst the Runchatlive Community. We will continue to stream all episodes of the 'Sleep Awareness Month' LIVE to not just the STA YouTube Channel but also the Runchatlive Facebook Page so if you'd like to watch them live be sure to head to one of these sites at 8pm (GMT +1) every Tuesday in April.  In Part 2 of this month's 'SLEEP AWARENESS MONTH' on the Sports Therapy Association Podcast, we talk about 'Sleep Trackables' with special guest Dr Olivia Walch, CEO of Arcascope, a company that develops science-backed apps to help people fix their sleep and circadian rhythms. With an estimated one in three people in the UK reporting regular sleep complaints, it is not surprising that sleep trackers have become enormously popular over the last few years. On waking up, our faithful Fitbit, Oura Ring or Withings Sleep Analyzer (to name just three) will inform you of the quantity & quality of your night's sleep, but just how accurate are they? Can the information these consumer sleep wearables provide be put to good use, or are they just another modern day gadget causing dependency and anxiety? Special guest Dr Olivia Walch takes us through such questions to see how marketing claims hold up under the scrutiny of science, and discusses what role they can play in improving sleep health. Topics discussed include: What is the difference between sleep trackers and sleep wearables? How long have sleep trackers/wearables been used to assess sleep quanitity/quality? How has the technology in sleep wearables changed over time? How do scoring algorithms work? How accurate are popular sleep wearables from Garmin, Fitbit, Oura Ring, etc? Can popular consumer sleep wearables measure stages of sleep?  What is the relationship like between sleep researchers and consumer brands for wearables? If we see clients/patients are wearing sleep trackers, what sort of conversations should we be having with them? Can sleep trackers cause 'orthosomnia' - the obsession for 'perfect' sleep? Using sleep wearables to measure sleep consistency. Controlling light exposure: one of the easiest & most accessible ways to improve sleep quality/quanity       Useful Links   Dr Olivia Walch website: oliviawalch.com Arcascope website Arcascope on Instagram: @arca.scope  Arcascope on Facebook  12 Tips on Getting Healthy Sleep (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)  About This Week's Guest Dr Olivia Walch has been studying the mathematics of sleep for the last ten years, getting her Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2016. She is the CEO of Arcascope, a company dedicated to making science-backed apps to help people fix their sleep and circadian rhythms. Olivia is also co-editor of Political Geometry, a volume on the mathematics of gerrymandering, with Moon Duchin.  A huge thanks to Dr Olivia Walch for giving up her time to join us! What is the Sports Therapy Association Podcast? For those of you are unaware, in May 2020 I created the Sports Therapy Association Podcast, a weekly podcast with the mission of Putting the Evidence Back into Sports Therapy and Sports Massage Therapy. It gets streamed LIVE every Tuesday at 8pm (UK time) on the Sports Therapy Association YouTube Channel and is then uploaded to all popular podcast apps including Spotify. Though it's not specifically about running related injury & performance, many of the topics covered will be useful to YOU, the listeners of Runchatlive Podcast, as we're essentially talking about issues that affect pain & performance. As is the case for Runchatlive, our listeners include health care professionals across the spectrum as well as active people of all levels looking for evidence informed strategies to stay fit and healthy!  This April 2022, we have a 'SLEEP AWARENESS MONTH', and because SLEEP is such a massively important topic, each weekly episode is being recorded live on not just the STA YouTube Channel but also the Runchatlive Facebook Page AND being uploaded to the Runchatlive Podcast feed for YOUR listening pleasure. The four episodes are: 'Sleep: The Silent Epidemic' - April 5th with Jesse Cook, Clinical Psychology PhD Student and Sleep Researcher 'Sleep Trackers' - April 12th with Dr Olivia Walch, CEO of Arcascope, PhD Applied Mathematics. 'Sleep: Injury & Performance' - April 19th with Dr Jonathan Charest, Director of Athlete Sleep Service at Centre For Sleep & Human Performance 'In-Home Polysomnogram' - April 26th with Dr Amy M. Bender, Director of Clinical Sleep Science at Cerebra, including results of my 30 night Sleep study! Amy was my guest in August 2021 in Ep63 ‘How Sleep Affects Sports And Fitness'. Feel free to join us LIVE on Tuesdays throughout April at 8pm (GMT+1)!

'SLEEP AWARENESS MONTH' on the Sports Therapy Association Podcast continues with Part 2: 'Sleep Trackables' with special guest Dr Olivia Walch, CEO of Arcascope, a company that develops science-backed apps to help people fix their sleep and circadian rhythms. With an estimated one in three people in the UK reporting regular sleep complaints, it is not surprising that sleep trackers have become enormously popular over the last few years. On waking up, our faithful Fitbit, Oura Ring or Withings Sleep Analyzer (to name just three) will inform you of the quantity & quality of your night's sleep, but just how accurate are they? Can the information these consumer sleep wearables provide be put to good use, or are they just another modern day gadget causing dependency and anxiety? Special guest Dr Olivia Walch takes us through such questions to see how marketing claims hold up under the scrutiny of science, and discusses what role they can play in improving sleep health. Topics discussed include: What is the difference between sleep trackers and sleep wearables? How long have sleep trackers/wearables been used to assess sleep quanitity/quality? How has the technology in sleep wearables changed over time? How do scoring algorithms work? How accurate are popular sleep wearables from Garmin, Fitbit, Oura Ring, etc? Can popular consumer sleep wearables measure stages of sleep?  What is the relationship like between sleep researchers and consumer brands for wearables? If we see clients/patients are wearing sleep trackers, what sort of conversations should we be having with them? Can sleep trackers cause 'orthosomnia' - the obsession for 'perfect' sleep? Using sleep wearables to measure sleep consistency. Controlling light exposure: one of the easiest & most accessible ways to improve sleep quality/quanity       Useful Links   Dr Olivia Walch website: oliviawalch.com Arcascope website Arcascope on Instagram: @arca.scope  Arcascope on Facebook  12 Tips on Getting Healthy Sleep (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)  About This Week's Guest Dr Olivia Walch has been studying the mathematics of sleep for the last ten years, getting her Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2016. She is the CEO of Arcascope, a company dedicated to making science-backed apps to help people fix their sleep and circadian rhythms. Olivia is also co-editor of Political Geometry, a volume on the mathematics of gerrymandering, with Moon Duchin.  A huge thanks to Dr Olivia Walch for giving up her time to join us! JOIN US FOR MORE EPISODES! Because SLEEP is such a massively important topic, this month's 'Sleep Awareness' series is being recorded LIVE on not just the STA YouTube Channel but also Runchatlive Facebook Page! APRIL 5th - 'Sleep: The Silent Epidemic' with Jesse Cook, Clinical Psychology PhD Student and Sleep Researcher - recording available on all popular podcast apps!  APRIL 12th - 'Sleep Trackers' with Dr Olivia Walch, CEO of Arcascope, PhD Applied Mathematics - recording available on all popular podcast apps! APRIL 19th - 'Sleep: Injury & Performance' with Dr Jonathan Charest, Director of Athlete Sleep Service at Centre For Sleep & Human Performance APRIL 26th - 'In-Home Polysomnogram' with Dr Amy M. Bender, Director of Clinical Sleep Science at Cerebra, including results of my 30 night Sleep study! Amy was my guest in August 2021 in Ep63 ‘How Sleep Affects Sports And Fitness'. Feel free to join us LIVE on Tuesdays throughout April at 8pm (GMT+1)! Please Support Our Podcast! If you appreciate what we do, please take a couple of minutes to leave us a rating & review on Apple Podcasts. It really does make all the difference in helping us reach out to a larger audience. iPhone users you can do this from your phone, Android users you will need to do it from iTunes. Questions? Email: matt@thesta.co.uk

More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/democracy-numbers. The United States prides itself on being “the world’s greatest democracy,” which adheres to the principle, “one person, one vote.” Despite this, its elections are often highly contentious—presidents can be elected after losing the popular vote, there is widespread gerrymandering and voter purging, and not everyone has equal representation in the Senate. So what can we do to make elections in the US more fair? And how do we decide what counts as fair in the first place? Is there some test or algorithm we can use to determine equal representation? Josh and Ray watch the polls with Moon Duchin from Tufts University, Director of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Research Group.

On the Gist, using poker logic to analogize the upcoming presidential debates with Annie Duke. She is a former professional poker player, cognitive scientist and author of the forthcoming How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices. In the interview, Mike passes the baton to Annie Duke once more to dig into gerrymandering. Duke talks with Moon Duchin, a mathematician and professor at Tufts University, about her research into understanding how voting districts work. Through redistricting analysis at the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group, an organization Duchin co-founded, she describes how in this democracy, fairness isn’t always as easy to find when you’re considering where people live and vote. In the spiel, messing up several thousand absentee ballots was inevitable. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Jamila Bey. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Gist, using poker logic to analogize the upcoming presidential debates with Annie Duke. She is a former professional poker player, cognitive scientist and author of the forthcoming How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices. In the interview, Mike passes the baton to Annie Duke once more to dig into gerrymandering. Duke talks with Moon Duchin, a mathematician and professor at Tufts University, about her research into understanding how voting districts work. Through redistricting analysis at the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group, an organization Duchin co-founded, she describes how in this democracy, fairness isn’t always as easy to find when you’re considering where people live and vote. In the spiel, messing up several thousand absentee ballots was inevitable. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Jamila Bey. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can mathematics help us understand our lives and predict the world around us? Host Alok Jha speaks to David Sumpter of Uppsala University about the equations that can help people make better decisions. Christl Donnelly, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London details the role mathematics plays in modelling covid-19. Moon Duchin of Tufts University explains how maths can stop gerrymandering. And physicist Graham Farmelo on why he thinks the universe speaks in numbers. For more on the pandemic, see The Economist's coronavirus hub.Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions:www.economist.com/radiooffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How can mathematics help us understand our lives and predict the world around us? Host Alok Jha speaks to David Sumpter of Uppsala University about the equations that can help people make better decisions. Christl Donnelly, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London details the role mathematics plays in modelling covid-19. Moon Duchin of Tufts University explains how maths can stop gerrymandering. And physicist Graham Farmelo on why he thinks the universe speaks in numbers. For more on the pandemic, see The Economist's coronavirus hub.Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions:www.economist.com/radiooffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Can geometry save democracy from gerrymandering? Mathematician Moon Duchin discusses the possibilities with host Steven Strogatz. The post Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks first appeared on Quanta Magazine. The post Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Geometer Moon Duchin shares her favorite result, a wild generalization of the classical isoperimetric inequality to the landscape of infinite groups. Also politics and gerrymandering, of course.

A mathematician's career is inspired by her family legacy.

We talk to Prof. Moon Duchin of Tufts University about mathematical gerrymandering.

In this episode of Arcana, Gabrielle and Arianna examine Gerrymandering. What is Gerrymandering? How do we measure it and determine if it is a problem? This episode will examine the politics of gerrymandering with a discussion with Massachusetts Senator Jamie Eldridge, who is driving a bill in MA to create independent districting commissions. Then we will examine the science of gerrymandering by talking with Tufts University mathematics professor Moon Duchin. Prof. Duchin is leading efforts to examine the quantification of gerrymandering and to teach mathematicians and scientists to be expert witnesses and district map makers.   

“It is an invidious, undemocratic, and unconstitutional practice,” Justice John Paul Stevens said of gerrymandering in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004). Politicians have been manipulating district lines to favor one party over another since the founding of our nation. But with a case starting today, Gill v. Whitford, the Supreme Court may be in a position to crack this historical nut once and for all. Up until this point, the court didn’t have a standard measure or test for how much one side had unfairly drawn district lines. But “the efficiency gap” could be it. The mathematical formula measures how many votes Democrats and Republicans waste in elections — if either side is way outside the norm, there may be some foul play at hand. According to Loyola law professor Justin Levitt, both the case and the formula arrive at a critical time: “After the census in 2020, all sorts of different bodies will redraw all sorts of different lines and this case will help decide how and where.” The key voices: Moon Duchin, Associate Professor at Tufts University Justin Levitt, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles The key cases: 2004: Vieth v. Jubelirer 2017: Gill v. Whitford The key links: “A Formula Goes to Court” by Mira Bernstein and Moon Duchin “Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap” by Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Eric McGhee  Special thanks to David Herman. Leadership support for More Perfect is provided by The Joyce Foundation. Additional funding is provided by The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation. Supreme Court archival audio comes from Oyez®, a free law project in collaboration with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. 

Learn about the life and work of Moon Duchin as described by a group of high school girls attending the camp Girls Talk Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By Noa Bearman, Kimberly Cruz Lopez, Tina Lin, and Xintong Xiang. Check out the corresponding blog post about the math problems these campers solved at https://girlstalkmath.com/2017/06/30/elliptic-curve-cryptography/! Many thanks to Girls Rock NC's Teen AXN League for the amazing intro/outro song!

If mathematician Moon Duchin has her way, gerrymandered congressional districts could soon be a thing of the past.

If mathematician Moon Duchin has her way, gerrymandered congressional districts could soon be a thing of the past.