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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

 

(+33) (0)2 31 56 62 44

email

vincent.merlin@unicaen.fr

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Next Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Dear All,

We would like to announce the change of plans for the next Social Choice Meetings. 
 
As you know, the 2020 Meetings, initially scheduled for last June in Mexico City were canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. In their place we shall be having an abbreviated online event on December 11, 2020, with presentations by the plenary speakers and prize winners that had been scheduled for June, as well as a special auction theory session in celebration of this year's Nobel Prize. Please find the invitation here.
 
In order to accommodate various time zones, presentations will be taped and broadcast starting 9 AM Central European Time  (Paris Program) and again starting 11 AM US Eastern Standard Time (New York Program). Each presentation shall be followed by a live question-and-answer session with the speakers. We shall be sending you the program details in the next few days. 
 
Given the continuing complicated epidemiological situation, it has also been decided that the next regular Meetings of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare shall take place in 2022, in Mexico City. We hope to see you all there!
 
Sincerely
 
Executive Committee of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
Organising Committee of the 2020 Meetings of the SSCWE
 
 
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Elections for the Next President-elect of the Society and Renewal of 8 Members of the Council

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.

For the election of the president-elect, the only candidate is Marc Fleurbeay (Ballot for president-elect)
 
For the council, there are 8 positions to be filled, and the electoral rule is approval voting. The candidates are :  Jorge Alcalde, Geir Asheim, David Cantala, Lars Ehlers, Edith Elkind, Franz Dietricht, Jean François Laslier, Bernardo Moreno, Antonio Nicolo, Marina Nuñez, Remzi Sanver, Marc Vorsatz,  Chun Hsien Yeh (Ballot for the council).
 
Please send back these ballot by email before the 9th of December 2020, with the name of the candidate you do approve of marked “A”, to Carole Zouaoui (carole.zouaoui@unicaen.fr) the secretary of the CREM research center in Caen.  
 
Sincerely
 
Executive Committee of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
 

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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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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Social Choice and Welfare Deliberation and Aggregation

 

Authors are invited to submit papers that contribute to understand how, and when, deliberation and aggregation can be conjoined in order to arrive at better processes of collective attitude formation.

Social Choice and Welfare (SCW) mainly publishes high-quality papers studying models of welfare economics and collective choice. Conceptual or philosophical papers that are of exceptional quality and close to the core topics of the journal will also be considered for this special issue.

Deadlines Paper Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2020

Submit complete papers for peer review through the SCW online submission system. Submissions should be prepared following the SCW submission guidelines: https://www.springer.com/journal/355/submission-guidelines. 

Submissions accepted before the completion of the issue will be publicly available on SCW’s  “Online First” section.

Guest Editors :  Mikaël Cozic (U. Paris-Est Créteil) mikael.cozic@u-pec.fr  ; Olivier Roy (U. Bayreuth) Olivier.Roy@uni-bayreuth.de

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Special issue of Mathematical Programming, Series B,  on  "Mathematical Optimization and Fair Social Decisions"

 
 
This special issue is dedicated to the International Conference on Mathematical Optimization for Fair Social Decisions: A tribute to Michel Balinski, https://tombalinski.sciencesconf.org 
 
We solicit high-quality, multi-disciplinary contributions that address mathematical (continuous and discrete) optimization (algorithms and modeling) in the context of game theory, voting, matching, fair division, cost-sharing, social choice, mechanism design, price of anarchy, and other areas relevant to social decisions. Papers that are only social science are not suitable for this special issue  as well as papers that only consider optimization. 
 
All submissions should be at most 25 pages in length, and will be peer-reviewed to the standard of Mathematical Programming. Authors should submit their papers electronically at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mapr/default.aspx  selecting Article Type "MPB - Special Issues Only", entering the relevant information, and selecting Section/Category "Series B - S.I. Mathematical Optimization and Fair Social Decisions". The deadline for submission is December 15, 2020.
Additional information about the special issue can be obtained from the Guest Editors.
We are looking forward to receiving your contribution.
 
Website of the special issue:
https://sites.google.com/view/mpb-si/

 

Guest Editors:
Mourad Baiou, baiou@isima.fr 
José Correa, correa@uchile.cl 
Rida Laraki, rida.laraki@gmail.com
 
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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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Fichier(s) attaché(s): 
PDF icon Kotaro_obituary.pdf
PDF icon Workshop on Fairness.pdf
PDF icon Ballot 2020 Council.pdf
PDF icon Ballot 2020 president elect.pdf
PDF icon Programsscw2020-Paris.pdf
PDF icon Programsscw2020-NewYork.pdf
PDF icon Invitation-sscw2020.pdf
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