Fair Division @ the Social Choice and Welfare Meeting 2020
Message by Haris Aziz, Steven J. Brams, Jörg Rothe, William Thomson, and Bill Zwicker --- If your research interests include fair division, please read on. The five of us (Haris, Steve, Jörg, William, and Bill) are encouraging scholars from diverse research communities – computer science, economics, mathematics, political science, and other fields – to submit papers on fair division and related investigations of fairness, for presentation at the Mexico City meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in 2020 (June 24-27). Our goal is to bring together people with shared interests who may otherwise never meet, because they usually attend conferences that draw from largely disjoint groups. SCW meetings do not have special sessions identified and organized in advance, so this effort is informal. We have, however, made the co-chairs of the Mexico City meeting aware of our plans, and their response has been very encouraging. They are particularly keen to increase the numbe...