Seminar: A. Slinko 2012-03-26

Speaker:     Arkadii Slinko
Affiliation: The University of Auckland
Title:       MMP review: what are the issues and what are the options?
Date:        Monday, 26 Mar 2012
Time:        4:00 pm
Location:    Room 6115, Owen Glenn Building

In this talk I will outline the issues under consideration in the current review of the MMP voting system and outline the major options that can be chosen. I will try to explain the rational and major trade-offs made in the design of hybrid systems like MMP. From this point we will start a discussion on particular issues. This will hopefully start the process of preparation of a submission to the Electoral Commission on behalf of the Centre.

Workshop on Game Theory, Epistemic Logic, and related topics

From Mamoru Kaneko, an external affiliate of CMSS:

We will have a small informal workshop on epistemic logic, game theory, and related topics.  This time, emphasized topics are: Epistemic, cognitive aspects of game theory, and human behavior in social context. Methods are: philosophical, theoretical, experimental and simulation studies.

See the workshop website for more details. Submission deadline for abstracts is 25 May 2012 and the workshop is 27-30 August.