Application Open to Serve on the NAEP Civics Assessment Framework Development Panel
The National Assessment Governing Board is seeking applicants to serve on the NAEP Civics Assessment Framework Development Panel. The panel…
IMD Affiliate-Organized Workshop Recap: “Mathematics of Elections, Fairness, and Representation” at the Banff International Research Station
IMD affiliates David McCune (William Jewell College), Jeanne Clelland (University of Colorado Boulder), Natasa Dragovic (University of Saint Thomas), and…
IMD Co-Founder Ismar Volić Gives Talk at the JMM: “Math goes to Washington: The Mathematics of Democracy, from Theory to Practice”
Ismar Volić, IMD Co-Founder and Professor at Wellesley College, gave the AAAS-AMS Invited Address at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings.…
IMD Affiliate Talk: The Role of CS and Math in Redistricting and Proportional Multimember Districts as an Electoral Reform
Affiliate Brian Brubach from Wellesley College will be presenting on the role of computer science and mathematics in the past,…
IMD Affiliate Delivering Condorcet Lecture at SSCW2026
We are pleased to announce that Edith Elkind, one of our affiliates, will be a keynote speaker at the 18th…
Op-Ed: Too Young to Vote, Not Too Young to Fix Democracy
“We are high schoolers. We are college students. We are redrawing the lines.” High school students Serena Pallan, Ananya Shah,…
IMD in the Wellesley News
IMD is making headlines at Wellesley! Check out these two stories in The Wellesley News which recently featured IMD’s work:…
IMD Affiliate Natasa Dragovic Publishes Paper on Dynamically Evolving Electorates
IMD affiliate Natasa Dragovic uses mathematical models to measure how public opinion on different topics shift over time and how…
IMD Affiliates at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings in January
This January, several of our affiliates will be organizing special sessions and presenting at the JMM Conference in Washington, DC.…
Poster Session Recap – “Social Choice: Theory and Computation” Conference
IMD’s Social Choice: Theory and Computation conference convened a poster session on Voting, Representation, and Districting, where presenters shared innovative…
Research Directions and Perspectives: An IMD Workshop
During Social Choice: Theory and Computation – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Voting, Representation, and Districting, attendees participated in a workshop…
Recording Now Available: The Democracy Code – A Panel Discussion at Wellesley College
On October 15, 2025, Wellesley College hosted “The Democracy Code: Quantitative Research for Political Reform,” a dinner and panel discussion…
