Messenger
Lectures
Cornell University
September 25--27, 2007
Michel
Balinski, Professor Emeritus,
École Polytechnique, Paris, presented a series of three Messenger Lectures entitled:
Representing, Electing and Ranking
The abstracts and references
for these lectures can be found here.
The slides and streaming video of the individual lectures are linked below.
Lecture 1: "How to apportion fairly: Aristotle, the Talmud,
the U.S. Congress and kidney
transplants" slides video
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 4:45
p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Lecture 2: "How to elect and to rank: Overcoming the paradoxes of
social
choice, electing a President
of France and ranking wines"
Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 7:30 p.m., Schwartz
Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Lecture 3: "How to eliminate gerrymandering: A new approach
to representation, its realization in Zürich and its application
to the U.S. Congress"
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 4:45 p.m., Schwartz
Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Biographical information on M.L. Balinski