Speaker to Address Math and Elections
Released on 04/06/2004, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Thursday, Apr. 8, 2004
WHERE: Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400 R Street
Donald Saari, distinguished professor of mathematics and economics at the University of California at Irvine, will present the eighth Howard Rowlee Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at 4 p.m. April 8 in the Nebraska Union Auditorium, 1400 R St.
The lecture is titled "Elections: Now That Is Real Chaos!" The talk is free and the content is accessible to a general audience.
Saari is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on voting systems and the mathematical problems that exist in designing fair election systems.
On April 9, Saari will give two additional public lectures. At 10:30 a.m. he will deliver the address, "Arrow's and Sen's Theorems: Do They REALLY Mean What We Have Been Told?" at the College of Business Administration auditorium. At 4 p.m., he will deliver the address "The Evolution of Newton's Universe" in 115 Burnett Hall.
Saari is the 2004 Tom Osborne visiting lecturer. His visit is sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Economics and the UNL Research Council.
CONTACT: Jim Lewis, Professor, Mathematics, (402) 472-7243