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…
IMD Affiliates’ Call for Papers: Mathematical & Computational Democracy Special Issue
IMD affiliates Kristopher Tapp (Saint Joseph's University, USA) and Ellen Veomett (University of San Francisco, USA) are guest editors of…
Introducing 2025-26 IMD Fellows & Research Students
We are excited to welcome three outstanding Wellesley College students as our 2025-2026 IMD fellows! Gahan Sabbir is a member…
IMD High School Program Alums Win Carnegie Young Leaders Fellowship
Ananya Shah, Serena Pallan, and Zubin Rajesh met during the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy’s summer program for high school…
New Report and Interactive Website: Empirical Analysis of Ranked Choice Voting Methods
IMD is excited to announce that our study of Ranked Choice Voting is now complete. In 2024-25, a team of…
Research Opportunity: K-12 Math & Civics Education
The Institute for Math & Democracy is looking to hire students for the position of research assistants for a project…
IMD Affiliate and High School Researchers Studying Bloc Voting
Last summer, as part of IMD’s high school summer research program, Dr. Jennifer Wilson (The New School) began working with…
Report Published on Utah Ranked Choice Voting Pilot
Dr. Alan Parry and Dr. John Kidd, IMD affiliates and professors in the Department of Mathematics at Utah Valley University,…
IMD Affiliates Launch New Electoral Reform Organization
IMD affiliates Dr. Wesley H. Holliday (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland) have helped to…
IMD Affiliate Analyzing Geographic Access to Polling
IMD affiliate Dr. Susama Agarwala’s organization Voting Rights Code has had a paper accepted into Election Law Journal. The paper,…
IMD Fellow Leah Valentiner Publishes Paper on the Topology of Simple Games
IMD fellow Leah Valentiner has released a paper using combinatorial topology to study simple games. The paper can be found…
