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The purpose of the Society is to promote the advancement of knowledge in social choice and welfare economics, broadly defined, and to facilitate communication among researchers from numerous disciplines working on social choice and welfare economics. In particular, conferences, seminars, workshops, the publication of a journal, and a biennal meeting serve this purpose.
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Society for Social Choice and Welfare
CREM, UFR de SEGGAT
Université de Caen Basse Normandie
14032 Caen Cedex, France
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Next Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
Dear All,
Dear All,
The election for the next president elect of the Society and the renewal of 8 members of the council were supposed to take place last spring, before the 2020 meeting in Mexico.
The process was stopped due the current COVID-19 situation, but the Executive Committee wishses now to finalize the electoral process before the end of the year.
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Announcing the COMSOC Video Seminar
With the COMSOC Workshop and the Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare having been postponed indefinitely, and with local seminars in most places having suffered a similar fate, we felt that the community needs some kind of online substitute. So it gives us great pleasure to announce the launch of the *COMSOC Video Seminar*, a new international seminar series on social choice taking place online:
https://sites.google.com/view/comsoc-seminar/
Please notice that you can register to the mailing list of the seminar on this same page.
For the coming weeks we plan to hold one session per week, with each session consisting of two 30-minute talks (including questions). The first instalment will be on Friday the 24th of April, with talks by Vincent Conitzer and Edith Elkind. Péter Biró, Ágnes Cseh, Piotr Faliszewski, Bettina Klaus, Clemens Puppe, Remzi Sanver, and Yair Zick have kindly accepted our invitation to speak in the near future. Topic-wise we expect to have contributions covering the full spectrum of social choice (computational or not).
Sessions will be held using the Zoom platform (https://zoom.us/).
Inprinciple, everything /should/ work just fine if you simply click on the link provided on the website a few minutes before the start of a session. In practice, however, it may be better if you create an account in advance, download the app, and try it out for yourself a couple of times before the day of the seminar. We are acutely aware of the fact that the time slot we have selected for the first few sessions (Fridays 9:00 EDT, 15:00 CEST) is not equally convenient for everyone around the globe and we send our sincere apologies to our good friends in New Zealand in particular. To make up for this, we plan to make available recordings of the seminar and we also will look into varying the time of the day (and maybe the day of the week) of the seminar as we go along.
We hope to see many of you next weeks!
The Steering Committee: Edith Elkind, Ulle Endriss, Vincent Merlin, Dominik Peters,William Zwicker
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In memoriam: Kotaro Suzumura
With great sadness we learned that on January 15th, 2020, Kotaro Suzumura has passed away.
Please find the obituary written by our colleague Walter Bossert HERE.
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PIETRO ORTOLEVA AND ARIEL PROCACCIA RECEIVE THE TENTH SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE PRIZE
A jury composed of Georgy Egorov, Debasis Mishra, Bettina Klaus, Hans Peters (President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare) and Arunava Sen (Chair, President-elect of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare) has chosen to award the tenth Social Choice and Welfare Prize jointly to Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University) and Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie-Mellon University).
The purpose of the Social Choice and Welfare Prize is to honour young scholars of excellent accomplishment in the area of social choice theory and welfare economics. The laureate should be 40 years or less as of January of the year when the International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare is scheduled to take place. During this meeting, the prize winner(s) will give a plenary lecture. For more information about the prize, please click here.
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