Program

Location: Cabinet Room, first floor, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6LE

Date: 25 March 2019

09:30 - 09:40 Gathering – Coffee/Tea Break

09:40 - 09:50 Introduction to Catch-Up Fairness Workshop Series in Honour of Steven J. Brams (by M. Ismail)

Session 1. Chair: Kostas Matakos

09:50 - 10:20 Edith Elkind

“Justified Representation: From Axioms to Algorithms”

10:20 - 10:50 Adrian Blau

“One Concept of Fairness: Fairness as Equity, in Sport and Politics”

10:50 - 11:20 Elisa Cavatorta

TBA

11:20 - 11:40 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 2. Chair: Adrian Blau

11:40 - 12:10 Bernhard von Stengel

“Computational progress on the Catch-Up game”

12:10 - 12:40 Alexander Matros

“Fair and Square Contests”

12:40 - 13:10 Lunch Break (sandwich lunch provided)

13:10 - 14:10 Lunch Break continued: Discussion / open problems session

Session 3. Chair: Elisa Cavatorta

14:10 - 14:40 Jean-Jacques Herings

“The Last will be First, and the First Last: Segregation in Societies with Positional Externalities”

14:40 - 15:10 Stephane Wolton

“A political economy of social discrimination”

15:10 - 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 4. Chair: Mehmet Ismail

15:30 - 16:00 Kostas Matakos

“Electoral Rules, Strategic Entry and Polarization”

16:00 - 16:30 Kutay Cingiz

“Multi-Battle n-Player Dynamic Contests: An Application to the U.S. Presidential Primaries”

16:30 - 17:00 Amrita Dhillon

“Next Generation Online Voting: The role of a blockchain based infrastructure”