{"id":189,"date":"2023-09-27T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=189"},"modified":"2023-10-25T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:55:33","slug":"colloquium-pablo-soberon-cuny-baruch-college","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/event\/colloquium-pablo-soberon-cuny-baruch-college\/","title":{"rendered":"(Colloquium) Pablo Sober\u00f3n, CUNY Baruch College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Colloquium talk<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psoberon.com\/\">Pablo Sober\u00f3n<\/a>, CUNY Baruch College<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday October 11th at 3pm<br \/>\nRocky 310<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-271 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/files\/2023\/09\/Pablo-253x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/files\/2023\/09\/Pablo-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/files\/2023\/09\/Pablo.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: Art Galleries, Voting Theory, and Convex Sets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The study of intersection patterns of convex sets is a central topic in combinatorial geometry.\u00a0 In this talk, we will discuss the applications of this area to two different topics: art galleries and voting theory.\u00a0 In art gallery problems we seek conditions on the blueprint of an art gallery that guarantee that few guards can keep every painting safe.\u00a0 In voting theory, given a group of people such that every person has an interval of tolerance in different topics, we seek conditions that guarantee that all such intervals overlap.\u00a0 We focus on connections of these two topics with quantitative Helly theorems, which characterize finite families of convex sets whose intersection is not only non-empty, but quantifiably large.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colloquium talk Professor Pablo Sober\u00f3n, CUNY Baruch College Wednesday October 11th at 3pm Rocky 310 Title: Art Galleries, Voting Theory, and Convex Sets Abstract: The study of intersection patterns of convex sets is a central topic in combinatorial geometry.\u00a0 In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/event\/colloquium-pablo-soberon-cuny-baruch-college\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11043,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-189","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/189\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mathstats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}