NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences - The Mathematics of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

West Chester University Of Pennsylvania, West Chester PA

Investigators

Abstract

This award will support an NSF/CMBS regional conference to be held at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2012 on the topic of mathematics applied to social and behavioral problems. The principal speaker will be Professor Donald Saari from the University of California at Irvine. This award will support 30 participants at different stages of their careers. After an introductory lecture, Professor Saari's presentations will focus on the following topics: symmetries and paired comparisons, impossibility theorems, symmetries and voting problems, applications of symmetries to more general decision problems, dynamics of social and behavioral systems, and topological structures applied to psychology. He will conclude with a presentation on open problems.