Seminars

Abstract: In many settings, a finite supply of some public resource is allocated among people over time, without using money: a computing cluster among researchers, food among food-banks, medical supplies between hospitals, funding between non-profit projects, fellowships among admitted students, etc. The underlying aim is often to try and be ‘fair’ in these allocations…but what exactly do… Read More »The Mathematics (and Ethics) of Fair Resource Allocation by Dr. Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University)