Fair Division in Theory and Practice

Maggie Penn and Ron Cytron

General links

• Course info
• Grading will be posted to
• We have a piazza
• Papers will be posted online, but you will see the links in piazza blackboard for this class.

Course Notes

• Apr 6
  • Simple rules and the Nakamura number
• Mar 30
  • Power Indices
• Mar 25
  • Lab 7 assigned
  • code, perhaps will be helpful
  Mar 16
  • Lecture notes on Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem
  • Informal proof (example)
  • Formal proof
  • Notes on social choice
• Mar 2
  • Last diminisher and envy-free moving knife
  • Arrow's Theorem
• Feb 25
  Ferguson data
• Feb 16
  • Approval voting
  • Bram's minimax
  • Alternative voting systems
• Feb 11 Lab 4: Apportionment
• Feb 09 Lecture 4
• Jan 30 Lab 2: Austin and Adjusted Winner
• Jan 28 Lab due and reading questions due, start of class
• Jan 26 Apportionment
• Jan 23 Lab 1: Divide and Choose
• Jan 21 Lecture 2
  • cake cutting
  • adjusted winner
• Jan 14 Lecture 1
• Jan 12 Lecture 0
• syllabus (subject to change)
• Stories of fair division (from Brams)