Fellows Program

If you are a Wellesley student looking to do a year-long study and research in one of the areas of math and politics, please write to us at contact@math-democracy.org. As an IMD Fellow, you would start the year by learning about research options in voting theory, gerrymandering, game theory and other fields, and then spend the rest of the year working on a project of your choosing. In addition to selecting the topic that best fits your interests, you can opt to focus on theory-heavy projects or more applied ones; the latter often involve a statistics and data analysis component. Some recent projects have included the study of hypergraphs and political structures, power distribution in the UN Security Council, simplicial complexes and quantification of power, category-theoretic approach to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, and political quantitative literacy in K-12 education.

If you are not a Wellesley student but are interested in this program, please write to us as we are currently working on expanding it to students from other institutions.

See below for more information about the Fellows Program from past years.