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SUMMARY:Skip Garibaldi (Center for Communications Research\, La Jolla)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/pl-20
 -uls/1/">Uncovering Lottery Shenanigans</a>\nby Skip Garibaldi (Center for
  Communications Research\, La Jolla) as part of Public Lecture: Uncovering
  Lottery Shenanigans\n\n\nAbstract\nIt is very rare to meet anyone who has
  won a prize worth at least $600 or more in the lottery. (You could expect
  to buy thousands of scratcher tickets before winning such a prize.) Nonet
 heless\, when looking at publicly-available data\, we discovered that some
  individuals had won hundreds of these big prizes! That much success smell
 ed fishy. We wondered: are they up to something? This talk will describe t
 he data we saw\, what mathematics had to say about it\, and the legal and 
 illegal schemes that on-the-ground investigations revealed.\n\nSkip Gariba
 ldi is Director of the Center for Communications Research\, La Jolla\, a d
 ivision of the Institute for Defense Analyses\, a nonprofit research corpo
 ration. His academic research spans many areas\, from semisimple linear al
 gebraic groups and their Galois cohomology to probability. He has held aca
 demic positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)\
 , UCLA\, and at Emory University\, where he was Winship Distinguished Rese
 arch Professor of Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical
  Society and has talked about his work on national TV shows such as 20/20 
 and ABC World News. He has received Emory University's highest teaching aw
 ard\, the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award for e
 xposition\, and the Air Force Commander's Public Service Award.\n
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/pl-20
 -uls/2/">A Virtual ICERM Public Lecture: Quantifying and Understanding Ger
 rymandering - How a quest to understand his state's political geography le
 d a mathematician to court</a>\nby Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University) as
  part of Public Lecture: Uncovering Lottery Shenanigans\n\nAbstract: TBA\n
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