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Mikhail Bernshteyn Thursday May 3, 4:30 PM | Research 1 Room 301 Significant amounts of resources are invested into planning and running American elections, yet problems remain. The improvements are needed in such areas as accuracy, convenience, efficiency, and security of elections. At this seminar, the current work on voting equipment allocation is presented. Measurements of an election performance are introduced among which are the average and the worst waiting times in queues. Is it unavoidable that you have to occasionally wait hours to cast a vote? What is the connection between biased election's outcome and voting equipment allocation? Solutions, insights, and existing challenges are discussed. This seminar should be interesting to people with backgrounds in public policy, politics, operations research, statistics, queuing, computer simulation, and optimization.
Mikhail Bernshteyn is a founding partner of Sagata Ltd and a director of its Canadian branch in Montreal. He received his PhD in industrial and systems engineering at the Ohio State University in 2001. He develops methods of operations research and statistics for solving multidisciplinary problems. The recent work of his team at Sagata on voting has received coverage in magazines and mass media. |