The assistant professor of mathematics and statistics discussed the mathematics of approval voting in her colloquium talk at Christopher Newport University.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Kristen Mazur recently gave a mathematics colloquium talk at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Her talk titled “An Overview of the Mathematics of Approval Voting” detailed recent mathematics research in approval voting. In approval voting instead of choosing just one candidate, individuals may vote for all candidates that they deem acceptable.
Mathematics research in approval voting focuses on understanding the maximum number of voters that agree on a single candidate and on finding the smallest set of candidates such that all voters approve of at least one candidate in the set.