Estimados/as Académicos/as,

Les extendemos la invitación al seminario organizado por el Departamento de Administración, en el que se presentará el artículo: "Political Apportionment".

Expone: José Correa, DII U Chile.

The question of how to allocate seats in a body of representatives is one of the most fundamental tasks in the political organization of modern societies. In the apportionment problem, we are given the population of each state and the house size, and the goal is to design a method to allocate a certain number of seats to each state. Two fundamental properties designed to avoid the famous “Alabama paradox” and “population paradox” are monotonicity and proportionality. A method is house-monotone if no state receives fewer seats when the house size increases, and is quota-compliant if each state receives the exact proportional value, rounded up or down. In this talk, we survey recent results in this space, including deterministic and randomized apportionment methods and generalizations to multiple dimensions, where we want to obey certain marginals, for instance, with respect to political, geographical, or gender considerations.

El evento será en formato presencial, en la sala H-103.

Saludos cordiales,

Dirección de Investigación