IMD 2021 Student Summer Research Virtual Event – Videos and Presentations

On November 4, 2021, IMD held a virtual event “Summer Research in Math and Politics. With topics ranging from quantifying power to liquid democracy, four Wellesley students presented their research conducted during the summer of 2021. We are grateful to all who attended.

Below you can find links to both the slide show presentations from each of our speakers and the video of their talk:

– Eliza Zizka ’22: A “Fair” Dictatorship: Social Choice Theory and Category Theory . (Video link)

– Anastasia Brooks ’23: The Geometry of Simplicial Complexes and the Quantification of Power. (Video link)

– Audrey Ballarin ’23 & Heeba Nazeer ’23: Implementing Liquid Democracy. (Video link)

– Hayley Grape ’23: Meeting in the Middle: Choosing a “Typical Map” from Congressional Redistricting Maps. (Video link)