IMD’s high school summer research program concluded at the end of July with two days of student presentations. Recordings are available to view here: July 29 and July 30. Final slideshows and reports are linked below. Congratulations to the students and faculty mentors on their hard work this summer!

Investigating Single-peakedness on Graphical Representations of STV in Scottish Elections – Emma Wong and Wenhao Lu, mentored by Dr. Brian Brubach (Wellesley College) with teaching assistant Valerie Zhu (Wellesley College)

Assessing Fairness in Social Choice Mechanisms: Evaluating Ranking Satisfaction in German Elections – Raina Gao, Mrinalini Sensarma, and Taison Scofield, mentored by Dr. Mostapha Diss (Marie et Louis Pasteur University)

Minneapolis Ranked Choice Voting – Reese Cartwright and Jenny Chu, mentored by Dr. Natasa Dragovic (University of St. Thomas)

Ballot Generator Models – Arlan Bartfeld, Cloe Chai, and Zifei Zhao, mentored by Dr. Matt Jones (Colby College)

A certain kind of spoiler effect: isolated plurality losers (IPLs) in multi winner ranked choice elections – Arjun Grandhe, Brady Kanter, and Danica Scofield, mentored by Dr. David McCune (William Jewell College)

Multimember Districts Increases Proportional Representation – Zifan Zhao, mentored by Dr. Keaton Quinn (Wellesley College) with teaching assistant Elaine Zhao (Wellesley College)

Modeling Primary Elections – Alexander Kiselgof, Om Lala, and Sasha Ordukhanyan, mentored by Dr. Andy Schultz (Wellesley College) with teaching assistant Gahan Sabir (Wellesley College)

Ballot Length in Single Transferable Voting – Jason Lee, Andy Zhang, and Paige Zhu, mentored by Dr. Kristopher Tapp (Saint Joseph’s University) with teaching assistant Erik Hill (Rice University)

Proportional Representation as Interstate Compacts – Ronit Banga, Eugenia Evangelinos, and Stella Seong, mentored by Dr. Jennifer Wilson (The New School)