Colloquium by Grant Kopitzke, Math Professor at University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, and UWO math graduate

Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 4- 5 p.m., Swart 126

The Gini index is a function that attempts to measure the inequality in the distribution of a resource throughout a population. Commonly used in economics to measure income or wealth inequality, the Gini index has found widespread applications in fields ranging from biology to political science. In this talk, we will discuss a discretization of the Gini index, connections to the representation theory of the symmetric and general linear groups, and some results in algebraic combinatorics.