Summary of 2020 Summer Activities
We had a busy summer at the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy! Here is a summary of the various activities that…
IMD research uses topological data analysis to understand the spread of COVID-19
Topological data analysis regards a data cloud as a topological space and tries to extract information about the data using…
2020 Summer research in voting methods through abstract algebra
Wellesley College summer research students (Annette Belleman ‘23, Helen Chen ‘23, Tantan Dai ‘22, Guadalupe Portillo Deras ‘21, and Jingmiao…
Summer Research Begins at IMD
Summer research at IMD is getting underway. For the next couple of months, various groups of students and faculty will…
Wellesley College summer research program in mathematics and politics
In summer 2020, Wellesley College professors Stanley Chang and Ismar Volić will run a six-week summer research program in mathematics…
Combinatorial topology and political structures
A recent paper A qualitative theory of conflict resolution and political compromise by Abdou and Keiding provides a model for…
Power assessment in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia-Herzegovina has one of the most complicated political systems in the world, a result of the war that ravaged the…
Topological data analysis and UNICEF poverty surveys
Recent years have seen an emergence of new and innovative techniques designed to better handle the increasing amount and complexity…
Category-theoretic approach to social choice theory
It is known (see, for example, this paper) that certain aspects of social choice theory can be reframed in category…
