The Thursday-Friday conference (see poster) was open to the public and free of charge. It featured a combination of lectures and panel discussions on the many multidisciplinary aspects of the redistricting problem.
Conference Schedule
Slides and video from the talks
Thursday
9am coffee and welcome
9:30am Moon Duchin (Tufts Math), Redistricting 101: Metrics for gerrymandering
10:45am Guy-Uriel Charles (Duke Law), The law of gerrymandering
11:45-1:30 LUNCH (on your own)
1:30pm Allison Riggs (Southern Coalition for Social Justice), A view from the litigation frontlines
2:45-4:15pm Jonathan Mattingly (Duke Math), Revealing the geopolitical geometry of the vote though sampling
5pm HAPPY HOUR at Devil’s Krafthaus (campus pub)
7pm Mathematics brainstorm session: Moduli spaces of metric partitions
Friday
9:30am Mira Bernstein (Tufts Science, Technology, and Society), Measures of partisan fairness
10:45am Michael Gerhardt (UNC Law), Gerrymandering and the “Political Question” problem
11:45-1:30 LUNCH (on your own)
1:30pm-3pm Panel discussion on Redistricting in the trenches: North Carolina gerrymandering, past, present, and future
featuring
- Dick Engstrom (Duke SSRI)
- Tom Ross (UNC/Duke/POLIS)
- Edwin Speas (Poyner Spruill) …and more
3-4pm Wrap-up session: Questions and discussion with speakers and practitioners
5pm HAPPY HOUR at Devil’s Krafthaus (campus pub)
A Map showing the Searle Center, Parking, and Places to eat can be found HERE.