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Aaron Koolyk discussing fair division to Honors students

On Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program and the Department of Computer Science at Yeshiva College co-hosted a seminar on Computational Social Choice. Lead by Aaron Koolyk 鈥�11YC, a graduate student at the and Hebrew University in Israel, the seminar focused on the concept of 鈥渇air division,鈥� commonly known as 鈥渢he cake-cutting problem鈥� (described as dividing a cake between several people such that each person is fully satisfied with the piece he or she gets). Over lunch, honors students and computer science majors discussed how the problem can be modeled mathematically as well as how the objectives could be achieved computationally. Following the event, Tuvya Macklin 鈥�25YC, remarked, 鈥淚t was amazing to see how a simple scenario like cutting a cake can be approached in a scientific way and how algorithms can be applied to produce concrete solutions.鈥� Jonathan Wenger 鈥�24YC added that 鈥淚 enjoyed learning about different algorithms to solve the cake-cutting problem, and it was also intriguing to see how it related to passages in the Talmud that I鈥檓 learning in the morning.鈥� The event was the first in a two-part series, with the second scheduled for the spring. Dr. Eliezer Schnall, director of the Honors Program, noted how 鈥渢he lecture and ensuing discussion presented the topic from the perspective of classic Jewish sources, demonstrating the Torah U鈥檓adda approach that makes 麻豆传媒映画 special.鈥�