Constitution Day 2018: Bringing Mathematical Rigor to the Courtroom
Channel: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Date: 2018-09-19

On Tuesday, September 17, 2018, Professor Wes Pegden delivered the Constitution Day Lecture, "Bringing Mathematical Rigor to the Courtroom." 

A CMU Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Pegden served as an expert witness in the PA gerrymandering trial. During his talk, he discussed a theorem that allows us to use randomness to detect gerrymandering of Congressional districtings in a statistically rigorous way, and, more generally, the ways in which mathematics can hope to productively interact with the law.